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Sara V. Tuckerman
New York Times, Saturday, March 23, 1974
38-Across : Contestants in a certain bee
Author:
Sara V. Tuckerman
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 56, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 47.3
Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Sara V. Tuckerman has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 M | 3 E | 4 L | 5 T | 6 R | 7 A | 8 M | 9 P | 10 S | |||||
11 L | E | O | N | A | R | 12 D | 13 B | E | N | A | R | E | 14 S |
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15 L | A | N | D | L | E | R | 16 O | V | E | R | A | C | T |
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17 A | L | D | 18 L | E | A | 19 K | O | U | T | 20 L | A | U |
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21 M | O | I | 22 R | A | 23 W | A | N | E | 24 H | I | N | D |
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25 A | R | E | A | 26 S | P | Y | 27 S | 28 C | A | N | T | Y |
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29 D | U | V | 30 A | L | I | E | 31 R | 32 A | L | E | S | |||
33 E | L | O | N | 34 H | 35 E | R | B | |||||||
36 B | 37 O | L | O | 38 S | 39 P | E | L | L | E | 40 R | 41 S | |||
42 L | A | B | O | U | 43 R | 44 R | O | M | 45 R | A | P | 46 S |
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47 O | G | L | E | 48 U | 49 K | E | S | 50 A | D | M | I | T |
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51 E | P | I | 52 S | N | I | F | T | 53 E | R | 54 A | R | O |
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55 S | I | G | 56 M | U | N | D | 57 A | R | M | 58 A | D | A | S |
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59 S | P | E | A | R | E | D | 60 T | R | E | P | A | N | S |
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61 E | S | T | E | R | 62 S | T | I | N | T |
© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 8,988
Across
1
Silvery fish : SMELT
6
Sloping ways : RAMPS
11
Bernstein : LEONARD
13
City on the Ganges : BENARES
15
Austrian folk dance : LANDLER
16
Emote : OVERACT
17
City official: Abbr. : ALD
18
Become known : LEAKOUT
20
Lukewarm: Ger. : LAU
21
Ballerina Shearer : MOIRA
23
Decrease : WANE
24
Red deer : HIND
25
Extent : AREA
26
Agent : SPY
27
Meager : SCANTY
29
Haitian name : DUVALIER
32
Drinks : ALES
33
N. C. college : ELON
34
Bandman Alpert : HERB
36
Machete : BOLO
38
Contestants in a certain bee : SPELLERS
42
British party : LABOUR
44
Gypsy husband : ROM
45
Sharp blows : RAPS
47
Stare : OGLE
48
Instruments, for short : UKES
50
Own : ADMIT
51
Finial : EPI
52
Brandy glass : SNIFTER
54
Nigerian people : ARO
55
Romberg : SIGMUND
57
Large forces of moving things : ARMADAS
59
Caught fish in a way : SPEARED
60
Boring tools : TREPANS
61
Glyceride : ESTER
62
Chore : STINT
Down
1
Admiralty man : SEALORD
2
Dear me!, French style : MONDIEU
3
Fade out : END
4
___ Rookh : LALLA
5
Place for a playhouse : TREE
6
Certain theatricals : REVUES
7
French author : ANET
8
Deface : MAR
9
Nut candy : PRALINE
10
Intersecting lines : SECANTS
11
Andean animal : LLAMA
12
Mortise pegs : DRAWPINS
13
Kind of companion : BOON
14
Scrutinize : STUDY
19
Actor Danny : KAYE
22
Marner's village : RAVELOE
24
Renaissance weapon : HALBERD
26
Highway sign : SLO
28
Sandburg : CARL
30
Matty of baseball : ALOU
31
Light-regulating device : RHEOSTAT
35
Shade tree : ELM
36
Musical instrument : BAGPIPE
37
Constrains : OBLIGES
39
Foreword: Abbr. : PREF
40
Moslem holy month : RAMADAN
41
Speech sound : SPIRANT
42
Loamy deposit : LOESS
43
Long rug : RUNNER
46
Facing a glacier : STOSS
49
Famous pirate : KIDD
50
Medieval helmet : ARMET
52
Confident : SURE
53
Strays : ERRS
56
Welcome item : MAT
58
Peak in Nepal : API
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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