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Thomas Meekin
New York Times, Monday, February 9, 1959
Author:
Thomas Meekin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 34.0
Thomas Meekin has 202 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 V | 2 A | 3 S | 4 T | 5 S | 6 H | 7 R | 8 U | 9 B | 10 R | 11 A | 12 C | 13 K |
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14 E | C | H | O | 15 P | A | U | S | E | 16 E | V | I | L |
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17 S | T | A | Y | 18 O | W | N | E | R | 19 P | O | N | E |
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20 T | O | R | 21 I | N | H | E | R | I | 22 T | A | N | C | E |
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23 A | R | K | 24 A | N | S | A | S | 25 G | E | T | ||||
26 S | T | O | W | 27 C | H | A | R | 28 A | 29 D | 30 E |
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31 C | 32 L | 33 O | S | E | R | 34 O | U | T | S | I | D | E | R |
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35 A | A | R | O | N | 36 H | U | B | 37 T | A | I | L | S |
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38 S | M | A | R | T | 39 S | E | T | 40 C | A | T | T | L | E |
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41 S | A | L | T | I | E | R | 42 P | R | I | E | ||||
43 M | O | A | 44 S | L | A | N | D | 45 E | 46 R | 47 S |
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48 I | 49 M | 50 M | E | N | S | 51 E | N | E | S | S | 52 N | A | T |
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53 N | O | O | N | 54 O | B | E | A | H | 55 R | E | N | O |
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56 C | U | R | T | 57 N | O | R | S | E | 58 A | M | U | R |
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59 H | E | N | S | 60 S | E | D | E | R | 61 T | Y | P | E |
© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,496
Across
1
Huge in bulk. : VAST
5
Bush. : SHRUB
10
Framework for display purposes. : RACK
14
___ Canyon, ravine in Utah. : ECHO
15
Station break. : PAUSE
16
Cause of harm. : EVIL
17
Postponement. : STAY
18
Proprietor. : OWNER
19
Johnnycake's cousin. : PONE
20
Craggy peak. : TOR
21
Birthright. : INHERITANCE
23
Wonder State. : ARKANSAS
25
Go and bring. : GET
26
Pack. : STOW
27
Guessing game. : CHARADE
31
Nearer. : CLOSER
34
Stranger. : OUTSIDER
35
Brother of Moses. : AARON
36
Boston, U.S. (with "the") : HUB
37
Lower ends of g's, y's, etc. : TAILS
38
Fashionable coterie. : SMARTSET
40
Ranch stock. : CATTLE
41
Brinier. : SALTIER
42
___ dieu (prayer desk): Fr. : PRIE
43
Vanished bird. : MOA
44
False, malicious tales. : SLANDERS
48
Very great size. : IMMENSENESS
52
Short for a baseball league. : NAT
53
Time of day. : NOON
54
Form of voodooism. : OBEAH
55
Civil War general. : RENO
56
Concise. : CURT
57
Scandinavians. : NORSE
58
Great river of Asia : AMUR
59
Coop dwellers. : HENS
60
Jewish home service. : SEDER
61
Roman, for example. : TYPE
Down
1
Waxed match. : VESTA
2
Trouper. : ACTOR
3
Dogfish. : SHARK
4
Knickknack. : TOY
5
Program backer. : SPONSOR
6
Loud, boisterous laughs. : HAWHAW
7
Old Finnish poetry. : RUNES
8
Operator. : USER
9
"I had rather ___ than President." : BERIGHT
10
Restored to citizenship. : REPATRIATED
11
Stratford's river. : AVON
12
One of the President's titles: Abbr. : CINC
13
Swiss abstract painter. : KLEE
21
Purpose. : INTENTION
22
Laundry problems. : TEASTAINS
24
Classified sets. : ASSORTMENTS
27
Budding reporter. : CUB
28
Tunnel to a mine. : ADIT
29
Small valley. : DELL
30
Gaelic. : ERSE
31
Sinclair Lewis hero. : CASS
32
Priest on Lhasa. : LAMA
33
Unwritten. : ORAL
34
Not in vogue. : OUT
36
Pronoun. : HER
39
Flavors. : SEASONS
40
Intruder: Slang. : CRASHER
42
Make glad. : PLEASE
44
Dummy called Mortimer. : SNERD
45
Snake in the grass, for one. : ENEMY
46
"The mouse ___ the clock ... " : RANUP
47
Accumulation. : STORE
48
Measure of rainfall. : INCH
49
Pout: Fr. : MOUE
50
Sunrise. : MORN
51
Oil-yielding tree. : EBOE
55
Corncrib robber. : RAT
Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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