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Lester Keene
Names in the Labor News
New York Times, Sunday, October 27, 1946
70-Across : Military decoration.
Author:
L. K. Peters
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 67, Avg Word Len: 5.27, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 543 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 142, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 50, Grid flow: 22.3
Lester Keene has 35 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
L. K. Peters is an alias for Lester Keene.
1 L | 2 E | 3 W | 4 I | 5 S | | 6 G | 7 O | 8 M | 9 P | 10 E | 11 R | 12 S | | 13 P | 14 E | 15 R | 16 K | 17 I | 18 N | 19 S |
20 A | B | A | T | E | | 21 E | X | U | L | T | E | T | | 22 A | R | E | O | L | A | E |
23 B | O | G | U | E | | 24 S | T | R | A | N | G | E | | 25 C | O | B | B | L | E | R |
26 O | L | E | | 27 M | 28 A | T | E | R | N | A | | 29 E | 30 G | A | D | | 31 E | S | S | E |
32 R | I | S | 33 E | | 34 S | U | R | A | | | 35 C | L | O | S | E | 36 D | | | | |
| | | 37 S | 38 C | A | R | | 39 Y | 40 A | 41 K | I | M | A | | 42 S | E | 43 A | 44 M | 45 E | 46 N |
47 T | 48 A | 49 T | T | E | R | E | 50 D | | 51 N | E | G | A | T | 52 E | | 53 C | H | E | R | E |
54 O | R | E | A | D | | 55 S | I | 56 G | N | M | A | N | | 57 C | 58 A | R | E | E | N | S |
59 B | A | R | T | E | 60 R | | 61 A | R | E | A | R | | 62 R | A | D | I | A | T | E | S |
63 I | N | C | E | | 64 A | 65 P | P | E | A | L | | 66 N | E | R | V | E | D | | | |
67 N | Y | E | | 68 U | N | R | E | E | L | | 69 R | O | U | T | E | D | | 70 D | 71 S | 72 C |
| | | 73 A | S | T | E | R | N | | 74 G | O | T | T | E | N | | 75 R | E | W | A |
76 M | 77 A | 78 D | C | H | E | N | S | | 79 R | A | M | A | H | | 80 T | 81 R | E | V | O | R |
82 U | N | I | T | E | R | S | | 83 S | E | V | E | R | E | 84 D | | 85 A | M | O | R | T |
86 S | A | V | O | R | | 87 A | 88 N | C | H | O | R | | 89 R | E | 90 S | C | I | N | D | S |
91 S | H | A | R | E | 92 D | | 93 O | R | A | T | O | 94 R | | 95 N | E | A | T | | | |
| | | | 96 D | E | 97 M | E | A | N | | | 98 A | 99 C | T | A | | 100 S | 101 L | 102 A | 103 B |
104 T | 105 H | 106 E | 107 E | | 108 C | A | L | M | | 109 M | 110 E | G | R | I | M | 111 S | | 112 A | R | E |
113 H | I | L | L | 114 M | A | N | | 115 B | 116 R | I | D | G | E | S | | 117 U | 118 N | I | O | N |
119 O | P | A | L | I | N | E | | 120 L | A | R | G | E | S | T | | 121 M | O | R | S | E |
122 R | E | S | E | N | T | S | | 123 E | X | S | E | R | T | S | | 124 P | O | S | E | S |
© 1946, The New York TimesNo. 246
Across
1
Miners' protagonist. :
LEWIS6
Former head of AFL (1850–1924). :
GOMPERS13
F. D. R.'s Secretary of Labor. :
PERKINS20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
29
31
32
34
500-mile tributary to the Volga. :
SURA35
37
39
Washington's great apple center. :
YAKIMA42
Curran runs their CIO union. :
SEAMEN47
51
53
54
55
57
59
61
62
63
Famous movie director. :
INCE64
66
67
Former Senator, North Dakota. :
NYE68
69
70
Military decoration. :
DSC73
74
75
State in central India. :
REWA76
79
City built by King Baasha (I Kgs. xv: 17). :
RAMAH80
Claire ___, of screen and radio. :
TREVOR82
83
85
86
87
89
91
93
The Great Commoner was one. :
ORATOR95
96
98
100
104
108
109
112
113
115
117
Labor's greatest strength. :
UNION119
Resembling October's birthstone. :
OPALINE120
121
Pro-labor Senator from Oregon. :
MORSE122
Expresses displeasure at. :
RESENTS123
124
Down
1
___ omnia vincit. :
LABOR2
Town near Salerno. :
EBOLI3
Labor's stake in industry. :
WAGES4
Union composed of printers. :
ITU5
6
7
The armpit: Dial. :
OXTER8
9
10
11
12
Former White House labor conciliator. :
STEELMAN13
Central American rodents. :
PACAS14
15
Confederate soldier: Colloq. :
REB16
Port on the Inland Sea. :
KOBE17
18
Negative votes in Glasgow. :
NAES19
28
30
On-the-spot witness at Bikini. :
GOAT33
35
36
38
40
Subject to high heat. :
ANNEAL41
The late Mr. Ataturk. :
KEMAL43
44
45
46
47
Head of the teamsters' union. :
TOBIN48
Hungarian poet (1817–82). :
ARANY49
Common-law dower: Scots Law. :
TERCE50
Fabrics woven in a continuous pattern. :
DIAPERS52
Two-handed card game. :
ECARTE56
58
The four Sundays before Christmas. :
ADVENT60
62
65
Argentina's largest newspaper. :
PRENSA66
Affidavit taker: Scot. :
NOTAR68
69
Caesar ___, of the screen. :
ROMERO70
U. S. training camp in Massachusetts. :
DEVON71
72
73
Member of Equity. :
ACTOR74
75
76
Epithet for a sawdust Caesar. :
MUSS77
A son of Seir (I Chr. i 38). :
ANAH78
79
Ada ___, late star of Daly's Theatre. :
REHAN81
Worthless (Matt. v. 22). :
RACA83
84
88
Christmas is Paris. :
NOEL90
92
94
97
99
101
102
103
President of Czechoslovakia. :
BENES104
Norse god of strength. :
THOR105
106
Greek political party. :
ELAS107
109
110
New Jersey's Governor. :
EDGE111
114
116
118
The mind: Comb. form. :
NOO
Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 39 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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