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Brice Metcalfe
New York Times, Monday, February 12, 1962
8-Down : Novelist Lincoln.
Author:
Brice Metcalfe
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 83, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 24.8
Grid has duplicate clues.
Brice Metcalfe has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 L | 2 S | 3 T | 4 C | 5 A | 6 W | 7 S | 8 V | 9 A | 10 L | 11 E | 12 T | 13 S |
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14 I | W | O | 15 A | R | E | A | 16 I | B | E | R | I | A |
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17 M | E | M | 18 O | R | I | A | L | 19 C | R | E | A | M | Y |
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20 N | E | B | R | A | S | K | A | 21 T | A | R | T | E | S |
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22 S | T | E | F | F | E | N | S | 23 O | H | S | ||||
24 E | N | E | 25 F | R | A | 26 E | 27 B | 28 B |
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29 L | 30 E | 31 A | 32 P | S | 33 S | 34 A | L | I | M | 35 E | T | E | R |
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36 O | A | K | S | 37 U | S | N | E | A | 38 N | A | D | A |
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39 C | R | I | S | 40 P | N | E | S | S | 41 A | G | L | E | Y |
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42 I | N | N | 43 L | B | S | 44 H | 45 E | N | ||||||
46 L | A | I | 47 S | T | R | O | 48 P | 49 H | 50 E | 51 S |
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52 A | 53 T | 54 T | I | C | A | 55 P | O | R | T | R | A | I | T |
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56 T | H | O | M | A | S | 57 O | N | A | H | O | R | S | E |
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58 T | O | D | A | T | E | 59 R | E | T | E | 60 T | E | A |
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61 S | U | D | S | E | D | 62 T | S | A | R | 63 E | N | D |
© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,595
Across
1
Navy amphibian. : LST
4
Birdcalls. : CAWS
8
___ de chambre. : VALETS
14
___ Jima. : IWO
15
Scope. : AREA
16
Ancient Hispania. : IBERIA
17
Lincoln ___. : MEMORIAL
19
Luscious. : CREAMY
20
Lincoln, ___. : NEBRASKA
21
French pastry. : TARTES
22
Lincoln ___. : STEFFENS
23
Cries of surprise. : OHS
24
Chemical suffix. : ENE
25
Brother. : FRA
26
Subside. : EBB
29
Vaults. : LEAPS
33
Device for measuring saltiness. : SALIMETER
36
Trees yielding cork. : OAKS
37
Lichen genus. : USNEA
38
Nothing: Sp. : NADA
39
A quality of new bills. : CRISPNESS
41
" ... gang aft ___." : AGLEY
42
Lincoln's ___, London. : INN
43
Weight units: Abbr. : LBS
44
Biddy. : HEN
46
Medieval French poem. : LAI
47
Stanzas. : STROPHES
52
Where Athens was. : ATTICA
55
Aaron Copland's "A Lincoln ___." : PORTRAIT
56
Lincoln's father. : THOMAS
57
"Three Men ___." : ONAHORSE
58
So far. : TODATE
59
Plexus. : RETE
60
A kind of rose. : TEA
61
Washed, as clothes. : SUDSED
62
Royal title. : TSAR
63
Purpose. : END
Down
1
Portrays. : LIMNS
2
Piece of candy. : SWEET
3
Grave: Fr. : TOMBE
4
Decanters. : CARAFES
5
Sprung. : ARISEN
6
Faults. : WEAKNESSES
7
Rooms: Sp. : SALAS
8
Novelist Lincoln. : VICTORIA
9
Postmaster Lincoln. : ABRAHAM
10
Sly looks. : LEERS
11
He was: Lat. : ERAT
12
Occasion. : TIME
13
Recites. : SAYS
18
Small fish. : ORF
25
Portraitist's color effects. : FLESHTONES
26
Relative of etc. : ETAL
27
English historian. : BEDE
28
Harsh sound. : BRAY
29
Places. : LOCI
30
Get. : EARN
31
Similar. : AKIN
32
Epistolary abbreviation. : PSS
34
Reply: Abbr. : ANS
35
Where Lincolnshire is: Abbr. : ENG
37
Fair. : UNBIASED
40
Mollify. : PLACATE
41
One more. : ANOTHER
45
List of mistakes with corrections. : ERRATA
46
Certain beans. : LIMAS
47
Fun. : SPORT
48
Type of athlete. : PRO
49
American author. : HARTE
50
Iron: Ger. : EISEN
51
Stand one in good ___. : STEAD
52
Professional men: Abbr. : ATTS
53
Biblical pronoun. : THOU
54
Lincoln's father-in-law. : TODD
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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