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James E. Hinish Jr.
James E. Hinish Jr.

New York Times, Wednesday, February 6, 1963

Author:
James E. Hinish Jr.
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.29, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 73.9 Grid has duplicate clues.
James E. Hinish Jr. has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 4,946
Across
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The mail, in India. : DAK
4
Pounds, for short. : SOVS
8
Agreements, in ancient Rome. : PACTA
13
Asian land: Abbr. : ISR
14
Conception. : IDEA
15
Name akin to Louis. : ALOIS
16
Galbraith's calling. : ECONOMIST
19
Attains: Colloq. : LANDS
20
Certain business men. : MANUFACTURERS
22
Kitchen device. : PARER
23
Renaissance humanist. : ERASMUS
25
Puget and others: Abbr. : SDS
26
Missile. : DART
27
Year in the 11th century. : MIV
29
Type of dwelling. : TEPEE
32
Refer to. : CITE
33
Recent: Suffix. : CENE
34
Embellish. : ADORN
35
Suffix in chemistry. : ENE
36
Type of comedy. : FARCE
37
Muddy. : MIRY
38
Ship channels. : GATS
39
Goose genus. : ANSER
40
Baseball great. : OTT
41
Gardener's gear. : HOSE
42
Poetic verb form. : ART
43
German city. : HANOVER
45
Nonsense. : TRASH
48
Position for action. : BATTLESTATION
51
Comedian's line. : ADLIB
53
Artificial language. : ESPERANTO
54
Canadian official. : REEVE
55
Terminals: Abbr. : STAS
56
Language: Abbr. : GER
57
Looked over: Slang. : CASED
58
Intensified sibilant sound. : SSST
59
Street name in New England. : ELM
Down
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Per ___. : DIEM
2
Tin-pan Alley group. : ASCAP
3
Coin of Sweden. : KRONA
4
Old-time robes for women. : SIMARS
5
Of a poem. : ODIC
6
Bankers' concern. : VESTEDINTERESTS
7
Loads to capacity. : SATURATES
8
Dimmest. : PALEST
9
Rouse to action. : ALARM
10
Target of 20 Across. : CONSUMERS
11
Thrice a day: Lat. abbr. : TID
12
Quadruped. : ASS
17
Room of a sort. : NURSERY
18
"East ___." : OFEDEN
21
Distinctive. : RARE
24
In as much as. : SINCE
28
Shift. : VEER
29
___ shanter. : TAMO
30
Nurse Cavell. : EDITH
31
Certain radios. : PORTABLES
32
Interminable. : CEASELESS
33
Musical offering. : CANTATA
36
Famous soprano. : FARRAR
38
Polit. sci. : GOVT
41
Growth environment. : HOTBED
42
Certify. : ATTEST
44
Artless. : NAIVE
46
Scorch. : SINGE
47
Type of dwelling. : HOTEL
49
Warm and Hot Springs. : SPAS
50
Standard. : NORM
51
Curve. : ARC
52
Roman goddess. : DEA

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

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