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Mel Taub
New York Times, Saturday, October 29, 1955
Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { P Q W X }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 31.5
Mel Taub has 44 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 O | 2 O | 3 Z | 4 E | 5 S | 6 C | 7 A | 8 L | 9 E | 10 R | 11 A | 12 V | 13 E |
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14 F | R | O | M | 15 T | U | R | I | N | 16 E | L | I | S |
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17 F | L | I | B | 18 B | E | R | T | I | G | 19 I | B | B | E | T |
20 S | O | C | I | A | B | L | Y | 21 R | O | O | S | T | S |
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22 T | R | E | Y | 23 V | A | T | I | |||||||
24 F | 25 A | 26 S | T | E | R | 27 C | A | V | A | L | 28 I | 29 E | 30 R |
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31 E | N | T | E | R | 32 S | O | L | E | S | 33 R | U | E |
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34 A | J | A | R | 35 A | M | O | 36 L | O | L | A |
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37 R | O | I | 38 D | 39 R | Y | E | R | 40 M | A | N | E | D |
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41 S | U | R | 42 L | I | E | S | T | 43 S | A | T | Y | R | S |
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44 I | N | F | O | 45 S | O | O | T | |||||||
46 A | 47 T | 48 O | N | E | R | 49 T | O | U | R | I | 50 S | 51 T | 52 S |
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53 T | H | U | N | D | E | 54 R | S | T | R | I | C | K | E | N |
55 M | O | R | E | 56 S | T | A | T | E | 57 E | Y | R | A |
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58 O | U | S | T | 59 H | E | R | O | D | 60 S | E | R | G |
© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,314
Across
1
Area of muddy ground. : OOZE
5
Dieter's guide. : SCALE
10
Storm. : RAVE
14
Beginning at. : FROM
15
Italian city. : TURIN
16
Actor Wallach and others. : ELIS
17
Chatterbox. : FLIBBERTIGIBBET
20
Genially. : SOCIABLY
21
Perches. : ROOSTS
22
Card. : TREY
23
German equivalent of "daddy." : VATI
24
What the Red Queen kept crying to Alice. : FASTER
27
A gallant gentleman. : CAVALIER
31
Join. : ENTER
32
Parts of ties. : SOLES
33
___ de la Paix. : RUE
34
Not quite closed. : AJAR
35
I love: Latin. : AMO
36
The girl who gets what she wants. : LOLA
37
French monarch. : ROI
38
Beauty shop apparatus. : DRYER
40
Having hair like Leo. : MANED
41
Most churlish. : SURLIEST
43
Faun's relatives. : SATYRS
44
The facts: Slang. : INFO
45
Chimney carbon. : SOOT
46
Penitent one. : ATONER
49
Sightseers. : TOURISTS
53
Astonished. : THUNDERSTRICKEN
55
Further. : MORE
56
Body politic. : STATE
57
Wildcat of South America. : EYRA
58
Expel. : OUST
59
New Testament king. : HEROD
60
Noncom. : SERG
Down
1
Times when one is not up to par. : OFFS
2
A flat plinth. : ORLO
3
Pertaining to animals. : ZOIC
4
Exacerbate. : EMBITTER
5
Star of the Met. : STEBER
6
Wavy. : CURLY
7
In bad taste. : ARTY
8
A year in Claudius' reign. : LII
9
Impress deeply. : ENGRAVE
10
Cook again. : REBOIL
11
Priestly garments. : ALBS
12
___ armis (with force and arms): Lat. : VIET
13
Adjective endings. : ESTS
18
Emptier. : BARER
19
Jots. : IOTAS
23
Fearlessness. : VALOR
24
Is apprehensive. : FEARS
25
Former French duchy. : ANJOU
26
Step. : STAIR
27
Heavenly body. : COMET
28
Satirist's tool. : IRONY
29
Swiss mathematician. : EULER
30
Studies. : READS
32
Unsupported statement: Colloq. : SAYSO
36
Openwork structures. : LATTICES
38
Broke bread. : DINED
39
Revive. : REFRESH
40
Aborigine of Auckland. : MAORI
42
British songbird. : LINNET
43
Became peevish. : SOURED
45
Under: Italian. : SOTTO
46
Vapor: Comb. form. : ATMO
47
Poetic pronoun. : THOU
48
Pronoun. : OURS
49
Ruler. : TSAR
50
Hebrides isle. : SKYE
51
Hawaii, for one: Abbr. : TERR
52
Unexpected difficulty. : SNAG
54
Thoroughfare: Abbr. : RTE
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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