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Brice Metcalfe
Brice Metcalfe

New York Times, Thursday, May 10, 1962

32-Across : Vehicles of a sort.

Author:
Brice Metcalfe
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 32.5 Grid has duplicate clues.
Brice Metcalfe has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,682
Across
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Compass point. : NNW
4
Acclaim. : ECLAT
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Dotted, as with stars, in heraldry. : SEME
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Where Diamond Head is. : OAHU
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Run after. : CHASE
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Old-time wagon. : WAIN
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Not conventional. : UNORTHODOX
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Latin "to be." : ESSE
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Like a maple seed. : SAMAROID
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Legal matters. : TORTS
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Sinister look. : LEER
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Pitcher's specialty. : CURVE
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Greek letters. : SIGMAS
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Shaven and shorn. : BARBERED
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Interweaves. : PLATS
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Vehicles of a sort. : BUSES
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Greek letter. : TAU
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Cure-___. : ALLS
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Narrow openings. : SLITS
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Venture. : RISK
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Hindu cymbals. : TAL
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Bucket handles. : BAILS
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Euripides play. : MEDEA
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Relative by remarriage. : STEPAUNT
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Hard rolls. : BAGELS
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Produce. : YIELD
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Vasco da ___. : GAMA
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Dusky. : SWART
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Not to mention. : LETALONE
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Whereupon. : WHEN
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New Guinea, for example: Abbr. : SOUTHSEAIS
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Tolerably. : SOSO
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Spasm of pain. : THROE
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Card game. : SKAT
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Bloc in Prohibition days. : WETS
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Rectify. : EMEND
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Compass point. : SSE
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Entre ___. : NOUS
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1880 novel. : NANA
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Pronoun. : WHOM
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Repeats. : ECHOES
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Singers. : CHOIR
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Movie actor. : LADD
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Kyushu volcano. : ASO
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Characters of woven fabrics. : TEXTURES
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Turn aside. : SWERVE
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Post-Lenten period. : EASTERTIDE
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Feminine title. : MISS
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Compass point. : ENE
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Feature between two continents: Abbr. : URALMTS
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Govt. dept. : TREAS
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Sun and moon. : ORBS
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Playbill lists. : CASTS
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Shoe store merchandise. : SPATS
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___ ease. : ILLAT
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Knock ___ (break into smithereens). : GALLEYWEST
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Constructed. : BUILT
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Studio item. : EASEL
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French composer. : DUKAS
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Dazzle. : BLIND
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___ Marie. : SAULTSTE
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Entertains. : REGALES
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Former boxing figure. : BAER
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Family members. : MAMAS
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Stringed instruments. : PIANOS
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Showered. : BATHED
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Prosper. : GETON
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Pump. : SHOE
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Entice. : LURE
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Dumbarton ___. : OAKS
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Indonesian island. : NIAS
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Town near Padua. : ESTE
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Compass point. : WSW
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Electrical unit. : OHM

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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