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Walt Clark
New York Times, Monday, March 18, 1957
Author:
Walt Clark
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q W Y Z }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 29.3
Walt Clark has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 A | 2 R | 3 T | 4 S | 5 F | 6 L | 7 A | 8 S | 9 K | 10 H | 11 A | 12 H | 13 A |
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14 C | O | O | P | 15 R | I | V | E | N | 16 E | X | E | C |
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17 A | L | U | I | 18 E | L | I | T | E | 19 L | I | L | T |
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20 D | E | C | R | 21 E | E | 22 D | U | E | 23 B | I | L | L | S |
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24 H | E | R | D | 25 S | 26 P | L | E | A | ||||||
27 G | 28 L | A | D | S | O | M | 29 E | 30 S | E | C | 31 O | 32 N | 33 D |
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34 R | I | N | 35 E | M | I | L | 36 S | 37 T | A | P | I | R |
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38 I | N | D | 39 O | 40 S | T | A | I | 41 R | 42 L | E | V | I |
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43 N | E | G | R | 44 I | 45 E | N | D | E | 46 D | 47 R | E | F |
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48 D | R | O | I | T | 49 S | 50 D | E | B | U | 51 T | A | N | T |
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52 G | E | T | 53 S | 54 D | I | D | S | T | ||||||
55 C | 56 H | 57 A | I | R | M | E | 58 N | 59 R | E | H | I | 60 R | 61 E |
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62 H | O | R | N | 63 A | D | A | 64 P | T | 65 I | V | O | R |
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66 A | P | I | A | 67 R | A | T | C | H | 68 R | E | M | O |
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69 T | I | L | L | 70 K | N | O | T | S | 71 T | S | P | S |
© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 2,820
Across
1
Basis for a college degree. : ARTS
5
Bottle-shaped container. : FLASK
10
Cheerful sound. : HAHA
14
Small enclosure or pen. : COOP
15
Torn apart. : RIVEN
16
Type of officer: Colloq. : EXEC
17
His: Fr. : ALUI
18
The four hundred. : ELITE
19
Gay song. : LILT
20
Ordain. : DECREE
22
Commercial papers. : DUEBILLS
24
Flocks. : HERDS
26
Entreaty. : PLEA
27
Cheerful. : GLADSOME
30
A very short time. : SECOND
34
1-10 of a sen. : RIN
35
Namesakes for Actor Jannings. : EMILS
37
Hoglike mammal. : TAPIR
38
___-European. : INDO
40
Step. : STAIR
42
Brother of Dinah: Bibl. : LEVI
43
Actress of the silent pictures. : NEGRI
45
Closed. : ENDED
47
Judge of a game: Abbr. : REF
48
Legal rights. : DROITS
50
Actor in first role. : DEBUTANT
52
Fetches. : GETS
54
Poetic verb. : DIDST
55
Gavel-wielders. : CHAIRMEN
59
Employ again. : REHIRE
62
Island at the tip of Chile. : HORN
63
Make more suitable. : ADAPT
65
Composer Novello. : IVOR
66
Samoan seaport. : APIA
67
Pawl. : RATCH
68
San ___, Italian port. : REMO
69
Cash drawer. : TILL
70
Hitches, in nautical usage. : KNOTS
71
Kitchen measurements: Abbr. : TSPS
Down
1
School: Abbr. : ACAD
2
Character. : ROLE
3
Precarious situation. : TOUCHANDGO
4
Having a steeple. : SPIRED
5
Subject of 1941 FDR speech. : FREEDOMS
6
Girl's nickname. : LIL
7
Grasping. : AVID
8
A pushover. : SETUP
9
Bends in reverence. : KNEELS
10
Near the sun, in astronomy. : HELIACAL
11
Angle between twig and stem. : AXIL
12
___ Gate, section of the East River. : HELL
13
Book of the Bible. : ACTS
21
Gaelic. : ERSE
23
Chard. : BEET
25
Strike. : SMITE
27
Pulverize. : GRIND
28
Airship. : LINER
29
Relative of the oryx. : ELAND
31
Private eyes. : OPERATIVES
32
Alias Phineas Fogg. : NIVEN
33
Trend. : DRIFT
36
Sympathized (with). : SIDED
39
Earliest. : ORIGINAL
41
Revivals. : REBIRTHS
44
Roman road. : ITER
46
City fellow in the West. : DUDE
49
Biblical name. : STMARK
51
Pull-over. : TSHIRT
53
City on the Meuse. : SEDAN
55
Converse. : CHAT
56
A Shoshonean. : HOPI
57
Seed covering. : ARIL
58
Treaty group. : NATO
60
Frolic. : ROMP
61
Piccadilly Circus statue. : EROS
64
By the hundred: Abbr. : PCT
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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