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Leonard Goldberg
New York Times, Saturday, October 28, 1950
Author:
Leonard Goldberg
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { X Z }, Scrabble score: 303 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 73,
Cheaters: 0,
FITB: 3,
XRef: 0, Spans: 6,
Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10,
Grid flow: 106.8
Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
1 P | 2 A | 3 T | 4 T | 5 I | | 6 S | 7 W | 8 A | 9 P | | 10 L | 11 E | 12 S | 13 T |
14 A | B | H | O | R | | 15 O | I | L | S | | 16 O | L | I | O |
17 C | O | E | S | T | 18 A | B | L | I | S | 19 H | M | E | N | T |
20 A | M | O | S | | 21 T | I | L | T | | 22 B | A | C | K | S |
23 S | A | D | | 24 Y | O | G | I | | 25 B | A | N | T | | |
| | 26 O | 27 D | O | M | | 28 A | 29 G | E | R | | 30 R | 31 A | 32 F |
33 J | 34 U | R | O | R | | 35 E | M | M | A | | 36 P | O | L | A |
37 A | V | E | R | E | 38 L | L | H | A | R | 39 R | I | M | A | N |
40 M | E | D | E | | 41 O | M | A | N | | 42 O | R | A | N | G |
43 B | A | R | | 44 S | P | A | R | | 45 B | I | N | G | | |
| | 46 E | 47 S | T | E | | 48 R | 49 E | A | L | | 50 N | 51 I | 52 L |
53 Q | 54 U | I | T | O | | 55 D | I | A | L | | 56 R | E | D | O |
57 U | N | S | O | P | 58 H | I | S | T | I | 59 C | A | T | E | D |
60 I | T | E | R | | 61 E | V | O | E | | 62 A | R | I | S | E |
63 T | O | R | Y | | 64 P | E | N | N | | 65 P | A | C | T | S |
© 1950, The New York TimesNo. 496
Across
1
Great soprano of the 19th century. :
PATTI6
10
14
Shrink from, with a shudder. :
ABHOR15
Grandma Moses' medium. :
OILS16
17
20
Name meaning burden. :
AMOS21
22
Football players. :
BACKS23
24
Catcher for the Yankees. :
YOGI25
Go on a non-starch diet. :
BANT26
Round-the-world solo flyer. :
ODOM28
30
England's best defense. :
RAF33
One of twelve men. :
JUROR35
One of Queen Juliana's names. :
EMMA36
37
40
41
42
43
44
Coast Guard woman. :
SPAR45
Edward Johnson's successor. :
BING46
Italian royal family. :
ESTE48
50
53
Capital of Ecuador. :
QUITO55
Telephone accessory. :
DIAL56
57
60
61
62
63
64
Founder of the Keystone State. :
PENN65
International agreements. :
PACTS
Down
1
2
Large boa constrictor. :
ABOMA3
4
5
Part of New York City's subway system. :
IRT6
Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize novel. :
SOBIG7
8
9
Additions to letters. :
PSS10
Thomas Mitchell's role. :
LOMAN11
12
13
18
Constituent of an element. :
ATOM19
Piece of steel, with wide flanges. :
HBAR24
25
27
Famous French illustrator. :
DORE29
31
32
Bullying magistrate in "Oliver Twist." :
FANG33
Upright piece forming the side of an opening. :
JAMB34
35
36
Reel on which thread or yarn is wound. :
PIRN38
39
44
45
Part of the refrain of Bloody Mary's song. :
BALI47
Newspaper account. :
STORY49
51
52
53
54
Biblical preposition. :
UNTO55
56
58
Having inside info. :
HEP59
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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