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Ben Graham
Ben Graham

New York Times, Tuesday, February 12, 1957

22-Across : Unhurried.

Author:
Ben Graham
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { H J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has supersymmetry.
Ben Graham has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 2,786
Across
1
Blocked the flow. : DAMMED
7
Describing corduroy. : RIBBED
13
Hoodwink. : DECEIVE
14
A First Lady. : ELEANOR
16
Boxed. : ENCASED
17
Swindler's routine. : CONGAME
18
Dwarf. : STUNT
19
City on trade route to Siberia. : UFA
21
Resign. : DEMIT
22
Unhurried. : EASY
23
Not enough. : SCANT
25
Siberian river. : LENA
26
Road map abbreviation. : RTE
27
Loud-voiced herald in Trojan War. : STENTOR
29
Fifty-two. : LII
30
Engendering ennui. : TEDIOUS
32
Eisenhower's adviser on disarmament. : STASSEN
34
Kind of job. : ODD
35
Card. : ACE
36
City in southern Spain. : GRANADA
40
Prepared, as a pipe mixture. : BLENDED
44
Resister of authority: Colloq. : REB
45
Old-time movies. : SERIALS
47
Noun suffix. : INE
48
Among. : AMID
50
Song. : DITTY
51
Thessalian mountain. : OSSA
52
City on the Caribbean. : COLON
54
Burro. : ASS
55
Philippine Island group. : TAPUL
56
___ anon (once in a while). : EVERAND
58
Step. : MEASURE
60
Eisenhower's birthplace. : DENISON
61
An umpire, for example. : ARBITER
62
Decipher. : DECODE
63
Controversial Middle-Easterner. : NASSER
Down
1
Having a toothed margin, as a leaf. : DENTATE
2
Found at fault. : ACCUSED
3
Labor chief. : MEANY
4
Film. : MIST
5
Poetic time. : EVE
6
Infers. : DEDUCES
7
Withdraws statements. : RECANTS
8
Labor group. : ILO
9
South ___. : BEND
10
Bakery item. : BAGEL
11
Glosses. : ENAMELS
12
Pastor. : DOMINIE
13
Setting for 51 Down. : DESERT
15
Pay a fee for future services. : RETAIN
20
Zealot. : FAN
23
Adorned with knobs. : STUDDED
24
Without exception. : TOTALLY
27
Beverages. : SODAS
28
Swift currents of water. : RACES
31
Electrically charged atom. : ION
33
Coin of Honshu. : SEN
36
Decorated. : GRACED
37
Took off. : REMOVED
38
Eisenhower's home town. : ABILENE
39
Daughter of Minos. : ARIADNE
40
Mantle, at times. : BATSMAN
41
Quarrel. : DISPUTE
42
Guarantor. : ENSURER
43
Business man. : DEALER
46
Pronoun. : ITS
49
Greek dialect. : DORIC
51
Isolated verdure. : OASIS
53
Publius Ovidius ___. : NASO
55
Checks: Colloq. : TABS
57
Make a slip. : NOD
59
Paleozoic, for example. : ERA

Answer summary:
4 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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