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Elsie Bishop
New York Times, Monday, February 14, 1955
Author:
Elsie Bishop
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 16, Grid flow: 33.8
Grid has duplicate clues.
Elsie Bishop has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:
Original 2-Down clue missing umlaut over "e" in "Brontë"; added it.
1 H | 2 E | 3 F | 4 T | 5 W | 6 R | 7 A | 8 T | 9 H | 10 L | 11 O | 12 L | 13 A |
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14 O | Y | E | R | 15 I | O | N | I | A | 16 A | N | O | N |
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17 O | R | N | A | 18 M | E | N | T | E | D | 19 R | Y | O | T |
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20 D | E | S | C | E | N | D | S | 21 R | 22 E | V | O | K | E |
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23 T | R | I | O | 24 P | I | L | A | U | ||||||
25 E | 26 N | 27 S | I | L | E | 28 R | E | A | L | E | R | 29 T | 30 S |
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31 T | A | H | O | E | 32 T | E | R | N | S | 33 T | O | P |
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34 U | P | O | N | 35 R | O | B | E | S | 36 G | O | B | I |
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37 D | E | R | 38 V | E | X | E | S | 39 T | R | E | A | T |
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40 E | S | T | 41 H | E | T | I | C | 42 C | H | E | S | T | S |
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43 S | A | T | A | N | 44 T | R | E | E | ||||||
45 P | 46 A | T | M | O | S | 47 C | H | A | I | N | 48 I | 49 N | 50 G |
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51 O | B | O | L | 52 T | 53 H | E | A | T | R | I | C | A | L |
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54 L | O | P | E | 55 E | E | R | I | E | 56 N | E | M | O |
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57 O | U | S | T | 58 D | R | O | S | S | 59 G | R | E | W |
© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,057
Across
1
Weight: Colloq. : HEFT
5
Fury. : WRATH
10
Heroine of "Come Back, Little Sheba." : LOLA
14
Legal term. : OYER
15
Ancient Greek island colony. : IONIA
16
Presently. : ANON
17
Beautified. : ORNAMENTED
19
Indian peasant. : RYOT
20
Takes a lower place. : DESCENDS
21
Sign of an absent–minded bridge player. : REVOKE
23
Threesome. : TRIO
24
Oriental meat and rice dish. : PILAU
25
Store as fodder. : ENSILE
28
Warns again. : REALERTS
31
Western lake. : TAHOE
32
Sea birds. : TERNS
33
Outdo. : TOP
34
Resting on. : UPON
35
Vestments. : ROBES
36
Asian desert. : GOBI
37
German article. : DER
38
Annoys. : VEXES
39
Anything enjoyable. : TREAT
40
Relating to the beautiful. : ESTHETIC
42
Community ___. : CHESTS
43
Fallen angel. : SATAN
44
Deodar. : TREE
45
Island of St John's exile. : PATMOS
47
Fastening. : CHAINING
51
Old Greek coin. : OBOL
52
Histrionic. : THEATRICAL
54
Pinto's gait. : LOPE
55
Inspiring fear. : EERIE
56
No one: Latin. : NEMO
57
Dispossess. : OUST
58
Rubbish. : DROSS
59
Flourished. : GREW
Down
1
Part of a parka. : HOOD
2
Name of a Brontë heroine. : EYRE
3
Swamps. : FENS
4
Pulling power. : TRACTION
5
Favorite picnic viand. : WIENIE
6
Musical composition. : RONDO
7
Models for sluggards. : ANTS
8
Draw. : TIE
9
"___ Memoirs," current best seller. : HADRIANS
10
Insects in the grub stage. : LARVAE
11
Musical comedy with Zorina and Van. : ONYOURTOES
12
Pay attention! : LOOK
13
Pay one's share. : ANTE
18
Actress Oberon. : MERLE
22
House additions. : ELLS
24
French fathers. : PERES
25
Musical composition. : ETUDE
26
Neck parts. : NAPES
27
Miranda and Dark. : SHORTSTOPS
28
Early violin. : REBEC
29
Go ___ for (defend). : TOBAT
30
Long, narrow reefs. : SPITS
32
Poison. : TOXIN
35
Sampled again. : RETASTED
36
A kind of apple. : GREENING
38
Governor's power. : VETO
39
Pronoun. : THEIR
41
Dramatic role. : HAMLET
42
Boxes. : CRATES
44
Opera by Massenet. : THAIS
45
Game. : POLO
46
Oriental name. : ABOU
47
Large food fish. : CERO
48
Deep freeze. : ICER
49
Noted person. : NAME
50
Incandescence. : GLOW
53
Pronoun. : HER
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 14 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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