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Victor Goldfarb
New York Times, Wednesday, January 14, 1953
71-Across : A small case for needlework.
Author:
Victor Goldfarb
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.68, Missing: { J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 15, Grid flow: 21.3
Victor Goldfarb has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 A | 3 N | 4 G | 5 O | 6 P | 7 E | 8 S | 9 G | 10 L | 11 A | 12 D | 13 E |
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14 A | M | I | R | 15 F | L | A | P | 16 R | U | M | O | R |
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17 P | O | K | E | 18 R | F | A | C | E | 19 O | G | I | E | R |
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20 S | K | E | E | T | 21 S | H | E | 22 B | A | 23 E | S | S |
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24 N | E | 25 A | T | 26 D | U | N | 27 K | |||||||
28 B | 29 R | 30 O | T | 31 N | E | 32 D | 33 L | E | N | 34 S | 35 E | 36 S |
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37 R | A | S | H | 38 T | R | I | 39 B | R | U | C | I | E |
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40 A | N | K | U | 41 S | 42 S | A | 43 D | 44 S | C | A | R | E |
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45 S | E | A | M | A | 46 N | 47 N | A | 48 Y | 49 K | L | E | M |
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50 S | E | R | B | I | A | 51 A | M | O | 52 L | E | S | S |
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53 S | L | I | 54 T | 55 A | N | 56 G | E | |||||||
57 Y | 58 E | 59 A | 60 I | K | O | 61 N | S | 62 A | B | 63 I | 64 E | 65 L |
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66 O | L | S | 67 E | N | 68 B | A | C | 69 K | Y | A | R | D | S |
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70 U | S | I | N | G | 71 E | T | U | I | 72 L | A | I | T |
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73 R | E | A | D | S | 74 Y | O | S | T | 75 L | E | T | S |
© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,305
Across
1
Emulated Brian Sullivan. : SANG
5
Uncloses: Poet. : OPES
9
Open place in a forest. : GLADE
14
Abdul the Bul Bul. : AMIR
15
Turn over by tossing. : FLAP
16
It travels by grapevine. : RUMOR
17
Inscrutable expression. : POKERFACE
19
Ancient hero of Denmark. : OGIER
20
Kind of trapshooting. : SKEET
21
Ancient country in Arabia. : SHEBA
23
Letter. : ESS
24
Undiluted. : NEAT
26
Dip one's doughnuts. : DUNK
28
Pumpernickel, for instance. : BROT
31
Man's nickname. : NED
33
Parts of telescopes. : LENSES
37
Too hasty in judgment. : RASH
38
Three: Prefix. : TRI
39
My Own ___, prize-winning cocker spaniel. : BRUCIE
40
Elephant goad used by mahouts. : ANKUS
42
Cheerless. : SAD
44
Sudden alarm. : SCARE
45
Owner of a ditty bag. : SEAMAN
47
One way to vote. : NAY
49
Umpire in the baseball Hall of Fame. : KLEM
50
Where assassination started World War I. : SERBIA
51
I love: Latin. : AMO
52
Not so much. : LESS
53
Buttonhole. : SLIT
55
Heavenly creature: French. : ANGE
57
Another way to vote. : YEA
60
Sacred figures of the Greek Church. : IKONS
62
Biblical name. : ABIEL
66
Friend to Mr. Johnson. : OLSEN
68
City playgrounds. : BACKYARDS
70
Handling. : USING
71
A small case for needlework. : ETUI
72
Café au ___ (light brown). : LAIT
73
Foretells. : READS
74
Famous football coach. : YOST
75
"___ go." : LETS
Down
1
Exhausts gradually. : SAPS
2
Running wild. : AMOK
3
Greek goddess of victory. : NIKE
4
Indications of the ability to make things grow. : GREENTHUMBS
5
Absent from regular work. : OFF
6
Mends the ceiling. : PLASTERS
7
Every. : EACH
8
A transmission gear. : SPEED
9
Crosby, Como, Haymes, et al. : GROANERS
10
Drag along. : LUG
11
Pierette to Pierrot. : AMIE
12
Serves the purpose. : DOES
13
Sins. : ERRS
18
Highway: Abbr. : RTE
22
Onion. : BULB
25
Small snack for an aardvark. : ANT
27
Pitcher's specialty. : KNUCKLEBALL
28
Copper and zinc. : BRASS
29
Queen in the East. : RANEE
30
German man's name. : OSKAR
32
Meredith's Irish heroine. : DIANA
34
Climb up and over. : SCALE
35
O'Kelly is ___ President. : EIRES
36
Is apparent. : SEEMS
41
Ship news. : SAILINGS
43
Possibly the oldest city in the world. : DAMASCUS
46
Corporal in the Indian army. : NAIK
48
More distant: Poet. : YON
54
Senator from New Hampshire. : TOBEY
56
Light-hearted. : GAY
57
Pronoun. : YOUR
58
Or. : ELSE
59
33,000 miles of coastline. : ASIA
61
Backlog of the free nations. : NATO
63
Dies ___ (day of wrath): Latin. : IRAE
64
Revise. : EDIT
65
Naval landing craft. : LSTS
67
Remnant. : END
69
Mr. Marlowe, to his friends. : KIT
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 12 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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