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Thomas Meekin
Thomas Meekin

New York Times, Tuesday, November 15, 1955

Author:
Thomas Meekin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { F J Q V X Y }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 47.7 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Thomas Meekin has 202 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,331
Across
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Jacob Marley and others. : GHOSTS
7
Brief review. : NOTICE
13
Tire trouble. : BLOWOUT
14
The Crimson Tide. : ALABAMA
16
General plan. : OUTLINE
17
Led the way. : PILOTED
18
Bring. : GET
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Blackstone opus. : LAWBOOK
21
Branch. : ARM
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Uncloses: Poet. : OPES
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Spinnaker. : SAIL
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Biblical Mount. : SINAI
27
1900 opera. : TOSCA
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Mode of travel. : RAIL
31
Incline. : TILT
32
Efforts. : ATTEMPTS
34
Nymphs. : OREADS
36
Noun suffix meaning "quality of." : NESS
37
Study for a test. : CRAM
38
Track event. : SPRINT
41
Happy ___. : LANDINGS
45
Frost, for instance. : POET
46
Stock Exchange membership. : SEAT
48
Color. : AZURE
49
Fencer's tap of the foot. : APPEL
51
Name on a 1-baht postage stamp. : SIAM
53
English school. : ETON
54
___-de-sac. : CUL
55
Prospector's find. : OUTCROP
58
Shoulder ___. : PAD
59
One of the Pleiades. : ELECTRA
61
Transportation company. : AIRLINE
63
Sound of 66 Across. : RATATAT
64
Word for 43 Down. : CROONER
65
Fixed over. : REDONE
66
A telegraph key. : TAPPER
Down
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Sticky, hard-to-get-out-of place. : GLUEPOT
2
Most biting, as mustard. : HOTTEST
3
Player for Rice or Temple. : OWL
4
Earth. : SOIL
5
Big game fish. : TUNAS
6
Actor Jimmy's family. : STEWARTS
7
Home of Teatro San Carlo. : NAPOLI
8
Hodgepodge. : OLIO
9
Conferences. : TALKS
10
Nigerian native. : IBO
11
City at foot of Mt. Etna. : CATANIA
12
Precious stone. : EMERALD
13
Colombia's capital. : BOGOTA
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Acknowledges. : ADMITS
20
Partiality. : BIAS
23
Tent dweller. : SCENITE
26
State by particulars. : ITEMIZE
28
Sound of the "Lost Chord." : AMEN
30
Bereft. : LORN
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Sibilant calls for attention. : PSTS
35
Ukrainian Legislature. : RADA
37
Lofty falls. : CATARACT
38
Typewriter bar. : SPACER
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Having a high Hooper rating. : POPULAR
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Surfeited. : REPLETE
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Secular. : LAIC
42
Species of piñon. : NUTPINE
43
Word for Bing (with "The"). : GROANER
44
Radio transmitter. : SENDER
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Country place. : ESTATE
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Forerunner of bingo. : LOTTO
52
Ballerina Shearer. : MOIRA
56
Monitor lizard. : URAN
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Bolster. : PROP
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Social misbehaver. : CAD
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Cut off. : LOP

Answer summary:
6 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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