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Thomas Meekin
New York Times, Tuesday, March 17, 1953
8-Down : One who rushes around.
Author:
Thomas Meekin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 27, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { F J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 98, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13, Grid flow: 27.5
Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Thomas Meekin has 202 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 P | 3 A | 4 S | 5 M | 6 A | 7 U | 8 T | 9 O | 10 M | 11 A | 12 T | 13 I | 14 C |
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15 P | A | T | H | E | 16 A | M | E | R | I | C | A | N | O |
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17 A | G | O | R | A | 18 S | P | A | D | E | S | M | A | N |
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19 D | E | L | I | N | 20 G | 21 I | R | O | N | 22 B | M | T |
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23 S | T | E | M | 24 A | 25 I | R | E | 26 S | 27 P | O | O | R |
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28 P | 29 A | S | T | E | R | 30 S | 31 A | U | R | A |
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32 O | 33 D | 34 A | 35 U | K | E | S | 36 A | 37 P | A | R | A | S |
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38 C | R | I | 39 B | B | E | R | 40 E | V | E | R | E | T | T |
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41 T | U | R | R | E | T | 42 C | Z | A | R | 43 D | A | S |
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44 A | R | P | A | 45 S | 46 P | U | R | N | E | 47 D | ||||
48 M | Y | L | E | 49 S | 50 O | R | A | N | 51 U | 52 S | 53 S | 54 R |
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55 E | L | A | 56 U | 57 C | L | A | 58 A | 59 R | L | I | N | E |
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60 T | A | N | 61 T | A | L | I | T | 62 E | 63 A | L | L | A | H |
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64 E | N | E | R | V | A | T | O | R | 65 C | E | A | R | A |
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66 R | E | D | E | E | M | E | R | S | 67 E | S | S | E | N |
© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,367
Across
1
Sudden spell of energy. : SPASM
6
Offspring of Samuel Colt's invention. : AUTOMATIC
15
Famous name in news reels. : PATHE
16
Frequent tourist in Mexico. : AMERICANO
17
Spartan marketplace. : AGORA
18
Ditchdigger. : SPADESMAN
19
Marking for omission, on proofs. : DELING
21
Mashie or niblick. : IRON
22
Subway for Carnegie Hall. : BMT
23
Originate (with "from"). : STEM
24
River in France, Aisne tributary. : AIRE
26
Track of a wild animal. : SPOOR
28
Decorations on much-traveled baggage. : PASTERS
31
Corona. : AURA
32
Harem room. : ODA
35
Hawaiian strings: Colloq. : UKES
36
Armadillos of South America. : APARAS
38
Petty cheater in school. : CRIBBER
40
Actor Horton's middle name. : EVERETT
41
Gun house on a warship. : TURRET
42
Nicholas II was the last. : CZAR
43
Certain lawyers: Abbr. : DAS
44
Harp: Italian. : ARPA
45
Rejected with disdain. : SPURNED
48
Captain Standish. : MYLES
50
North African seaport. : ORAN
51
Red letters of a grim power. : USSR
55
High note. : ELA
56
16,356 students. : UCLA
58
Moviedom's Miss Judge. : ARLINE
60
Heavy iron-black mineral. : TANTALITE
63
Supreme being of the Mohammedans. : ALLAH
64
That which weakens. : ENERVATOR
65
State in NE Brazil. : CEARA
66
Ransomers. : REDEEMERS
67
Where Big Bertha was built. : ESSEN
Down
1
World War I planes. : SPADS
2
Debra of the films. : PAGET
3
Porridge in Spanish America. : ATOLE
4
Relative of the prawn. : SHRIMP
5
Paltry. : MEAN
6
Anti-aircraft units. : AAS
7
Messrs. Pinelli and Passarella. : UMPIRES
8
One who rushes around. : TEARER
9
___ naturae (natural sequence): Lat. : ORDO
10
Airs, manners. : MIENS
11
Accounts: Abbr. : ACS
12
Embroidered on cloth stretched in hoops. : TAMBOURED
13
Woman beloved. : INAMORATA
14
Black and white, good and bad, etc. : CONTRASTS
20
Washers or disk used to seal joints. : GASKETS
25
Roman highway. : ITER
27
Coral-like undersea sandstone. : PAAR
29
River in France, Seine tributary. : AUBE
30
Treeless plain of southern U. S. : SAVANNA
32
Verse containing eight feet. : OCTAMETER
33
Famous London street or its theatre. : DRURYLANE
34
Practiced avigation. : AIRPLANED
37
M. Goriot or M. Grandet. : PERE
39
Aberdonian hillside. : BRAE
40
Secretary Benson. : EZRA
42
Custodian of a museum. : CURATOR
46
Marked by courtesy. : POLITE
47
Member of the new Cabinet. : DULLES
49
Smoothly polite. : SUAVE
52
Dickens' Mr. Wegg. : SILAS
53
Wily device. : SNARE
54
Ada ___, beloved star of the past. : REHAN
57
Cherrystone. : CLAM
59
Marathon. : RACE
61
Cornish prefix, signifying town. : TRE
62
Hesitant interjections. : ERS
Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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