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Jules Arensberg
New York Times, Saturday, May 22, 1954
Author:
Jules Arensberg
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 30, Avg Word Len: 5.42, Missing: { Q U V X }, Scrabble score: 318 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 85,
Cheaters: 0,
FITB: 3,
XRef: 0, Spans: 2,
Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 19,
Grid flow: 38.0
Grid has duplicate clues.
1 N | 2 O | 3 E | 4 S | | 5 F | 6 L | 7 E | 8 A | 9 M | | 10 C | 11 R | 12 A | 13 B |
14 E | T | T | A | | 15 L | O | R | N | A | | 16 A | I | L | E |
17 J | O | H | N | 18 N | Y | O | N | T | H | 19 E | S | P | O | T |
20 D | E | A | D | A | R | T | S | | 21 J | A | L | A | P | A |
| | 22 N | I | N | O | S | | 23 D | O | M | O | | | |
24 O | 25 F | F | E | N | D | | 26 F | I | N | E | N | 27 E | 28 S | 29 S |
30 B | E | R | G | Y | | 31 F | L | A | G | S | | 32 H | E | W |
33 O | M | O | O | | 34 F | L | I | N | G | | 35 W | H | E | E |
36 E | M | M | | 37 S | L | A | T | E | | 38 L | I | A | N | A |
39 S | E | E | 40 S | T | A | R | S | | 41 M | I | R | R | O | R |
| | | 42 T | O | M | E | | 43 E | E | L | E | R | | |
44 A | 45 L | 46 K | A | L | I | | 47 A | R | Y | A | N | I | 48 Z | 49 E |
50 S | O | N | G | A | N | 51 D | D | A | N | C | E | M | A | N |
52 C | R | E | E | | 53 G | E | E | S | E | | 54 W | A | N | T |
55 H | E | E | D | | 56 O | W | N | E | R | | 57 S | N | E | E |
© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,789
Across
1
5
10
14
15
R. L. Blackmore heroine. :
LORNA16
17
20
Skills that are no longer lively. :
DEADARTS21
Capital of Vera Cruz, Mexico. :
JALAPA22
Spanish children. :
NINOS23
24
26
30
Abounding in masses of ice. :
BERGY31
June 14th exhibits. :
FLAGS32
33
Herman Melville novel. :
OMOO34
35
Excited exclamation. :
WHEE36
Author Kimbrough, familiarly. :
EMM37
List of candidates. :
SLATE38
39
What comic-strip characters often do. :
SEESTARS41
42
Part of a library. :
TOME43
Certain fisherman. :
EELER44
Sodium bicarbonate, for instance. :
ALKALI47
50
52
53
54
55
56
57
Down
1
Large state of Saudi Arabia. :
NEJD2
3
4
5
6
7
White-tailed birds. :
ERNS8
9
10
11
12
13
18
19
American soprano of the Gay Nineties. :
EAMES23
24
Wind instruments. :
OBOES25
26
27
Railroad magnate of the 19th century. :
EHHARRIMAN28
Hear no evil, ___ evil, etc. :
SEENO29
Make a solemn promise. :
SWEAR31
Become suddenly angry (with "up"). :
FLARE34
35
37
Garment of a Roman matron. :
STOLA38
New Hampshire state flower. :
LILAC40
41
New Jersey's governor. :
MEYNER43
44
Noted Hebrew author. :
ASCH45
46
47
British crown colony. :
ADEN48
49
51
Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 14 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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