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Threba Johnson
Threba Johnson

New York Times, Monday, December 24, 1962

Author:
Threba Johnson
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10, Grid flow: 35.2
Threba Johnson has 31 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,908
Across
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Little girl: Sp. : CHICA
6
Source of energy. : ATOM
10
Come-hither look. : OGLE
14
Chart again. : REMAP
15
Island off Scotland. : IONA
16
Famous name in the theater. : DREW
17
Designating a group of acids. : AMINO
18
Fume. : REEK
19
Feminine title. : DAME
20
Michigan city. : BATTLECREEK
23
Canine of a sort. : CUR
24
Contemporary American painter. : LARRYRIVERS
26
Confidentially. : SUBROSA
30
Obstruct. : ESTOP
31
Being: Fr. : ETRE
32
Newt. : EFT
34
Dakota Indian. : SIOUX
37
Town NE of Santa Fe. : TAOS
38
Verse or line, in prosody. : STICH
41
Funnel shape. : CONE
42
Piglet. : SHOAT
44
Chinese name. : MAO
45
Ancient Persian Gulf kingdom. : ELAM
46
Kind of beer. : KVASS
49
___ Paix. : RUEDELA
51
Author of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow." : ETHELWATERS
54
Chief minister of King David. : IRA
55
Matches. : CORRESPONDS
60
Symbolic bird. : DOVE
62
Norse god. : ODIN
63
Very slow to move. : INERT
64
Constant. : EVEN
65
Author of "An Essay on Man." : POPE
66
Spooky. : EERIE
67
Tear. : REND
68
Petitioned. : SUED
69
Pieces of candy. : DROPS
Down
1
Zodiac sign. : CRAB
2
Blood: Prefix. : HEMA
3
Not the real thing: Abbr. : IMIT
4
Sloping surface. : CANT
5
God of music. : APOLLO
6
Means to travel. : AIRCRAFT
7
"___ is human" : TOERR
8
Feature of a Cyclops. : ONEEYE
9
Manufacturers. : MAKERS
10
Singular. : ODD
11
Character in "Jane Eyre." : GRACEPOOLE
12
Monkey's cousin. : LEMUR
13
Jugs. : EWERS
21
Lessens in tension. : EASES
22
Carson and others. : KITS
25
Declared. : VOICED
26
Beauty shop specialties. : SETS
27
Where the Green River flows. : UTAH
28
Long Island site of atomic research laboratory. : BROOKHAVEN
29
Come again to the rescue. : RESAVE
33
Dickens character. : TIM
35
Single. : UNAL
36
Genus of arctic gulls. : XEMA
39
Lurched. : CAREENED
40
Indefinite period of time. : HOURS
43
French chalk. : TALC
47
Pounces. : SWOOPS
48
French playwright. : SARDOU
50
Discerned. : ESPIED
51
Kind of down. : EIDER
52
A thing found. : TROVE
53
Inferior stuff. : TRIPE
56
Something unique: Slang. : ONER
57
Wolfe of fiction. : NERO
58
Rainy day sound. : DRIP
59
Genevieve and others: Abbr. : STES
61
Most remote section. : END

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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