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Louise Earnest
New York Times, Saturday, October 26, 1963
60-Across : Character in "Quo Vadis?"
Author:
Louise Earnest
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Grid has duplicate clues.
Louise Earnest has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 C | 2 P | 3 A | 4 S | 5 T | 6 I | 7 N | 8 T | 9 S | 10 T | 11 E | 12 A | 13 M |
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14 H | O | N | K | 15 I | V | O | R | Y | 16 E | N | T | O |
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17 G | O | N | E | 18 T | I | E | I | N | 19 S | A | L | E | S |
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20 S | H | O | W | 21 E | R | E | D | 22 C | E | R | A | T | E |
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23 T | E | X | A | S | 24 M | O | L | L | I | E | S |
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25 C | 26 L | A | R | E | T | 27 M | A | P | L | E | ||||
28 L | E | T | 29 R | E | 30 G | A | L | E | 31 S | 32 A | 33 N | 34 S |
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35 O | V | E | 36 R | T | 37 R | U | T | 38 A | S | N | O | T |
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39 D | I | D | O | 40 S | A | V | A | 41 N | T | 42 T | O | A |
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43 B | 44 R | I | D | E | 45 A | R | 46 D | E | N | T |
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47 D | 48 I | 49 S | P | U | T | E | 50 S | P | I | E | D | |||
51 I | C | I | E | S | T | 52 S | U | P | P | L | A | 53 N | 54 T |
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55 T | O | E | T | H | E | 56 L | I | N | E | 57 A | T | O | I |
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58 E | N | N | E | 59 R | E | C | U | R | 60 N | E | R | O |
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61 S | O | A | R | 62 S | E | E | P | S | 63 O | D | D | S |
© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 5,200
Across
1
Audit experts. : CPAS
5
Colors. : TINTS
10
Four-in-hand. : TEAM
14
Street sound. : HONK
15
Color. : IVORY
16
Within: Prefix. : ENTO
17
Used up. : GONE
18
Merchandising gimmicks. : TIEINSALES
20
Bathed. : SHOWERED
22
Unguent. : CERATE
23
State. : TEXAS
24
Aquarium fishes. : MOLLIES
25
Color. : CLARET
27
Tree. : MAPLE
28
Rent. : LET
29
Feast. : REGALE
31
Without. : SANS
35
Open. : OVERT
37
Established mode of procedure. : RUT
38
Like ___ (probably): Colloq. : ASNOT
39
Queen of Carthage. : DIDO
40
Pundit. : SAVANT
42
___ fare-thee-well. : TOA
43
Woman in white. : BRIDE
45
Intense. : ARDENT
47
Quarrel. : DISPUTE
50
Saw. : SPIED
51
Most unfriendly. : ICIEST
52
Supersede. : SUPPLANT
55
Obey to the letter. : TOETHELINE
57
Thine: Fr. : ATOI
58
Nine: Prefix. : ENNE
59
Come up again. : RECUR
60
Character in "Quo Vadis?" : NERO
61
Rise. : SOAR
62
Soaks through. : SEEPS
63
Bettor's concern. : ODDS
Down
1
Costs: Abbr. : CHGS
2
Winnie. : POOH
3
With written commentaries. : ANNOTATED
4
Wooden pin. : SKEWER
5
Analyze by a chemical process. : TITRATE
6
Climbing vines. : IVIES
7
Gave a negative answer. : NOED
8
Numerical prefix. : TRI
9
Word contraction. : SYNCOPE
10
Dry-eyed. : TEARLESS
11
Part of a Chinese name. : ENLAI
12
Tete-___. : ATETE
13
Well-known artist. : MOSES
19
Peddle. : SELL
21
Put forth, as power. : EXERT
24
Island S of Sicily. : MALTA
25
Lump. : CLOD
26
Jacob's son. : LEVI
27
Color. : MAUVE
30
Degree. : GRADE
32
Preceded in time. : ANTEDATED
33
Time of day. : NOON
34
Office copy, for short. : STAT
36
One way to "pay Paul." : ROBPETER
38
Anchor position. : ATRIP
40
Mothers' helpers. : SITTERS
41
Dozers. : NAPPERS
44
Kind of order. : RUSH
46
Presidential middle name. : DELANO
47
"___ moi pourquoi ... " : DITES
48
Image: Prefix. : ICONO
49
City of Tuscany. : SIENA
50
Time of day. : SUNUP
52
Number on a die. : SICE
53
French department. : NORD
54
Spanish uncles. : TIOS
56
Shelter. : LEE
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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