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Alice H. Cook
New York Times, Monday, May 28, 1956
50-Across : Scribble.
Author:
Alice H. Cook
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 36.5
Alice H. Cook has 25 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 C | 2 A | 3 K | 4 E | 5 S | 6 I | 7 C | 8 E | 9 S | 10 C | 11 A | 12 F | 13 E |
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14 O | L | I | V | E | 15 F | O | C | H | 16 O | L | L | A |
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17 R | I | L | E | D | 18 S | C | R | A | 19 B | B | L | E | S |
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20 K | E | N | N | A | 21 N | 22 K | U | R | E | 23 A | C | E |
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24 S | N | O | 25 R | T | 26 P | R | 27 A | N | K | S |
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28 H | 29 O | 30 F | 31 S | T | E | A | 32 M | E | R | S | ||||
33 E | G | I | 34 S | 35 A | L | I | E | N | A | T | 36 I | 37 O | 38 N |
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39 A | P | L | U | 40 S | 41 I | L | L | 42 S | I | L | V | A |
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43 P | U | M | P | K | 44 I | N | P | I | 45 E | 46 R | E | A | R |
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47 R | E | S | E | A | T | E | 48 D | 49 S | L | Y |
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50 S | 51 C | 52 R | A | W | L | 53 R | A | R | E | 54 R | ||||
55 A | H | A | 56 E | A | 57 S | T | 58 Y | E | A | 59 R | 60 N | 61 S |
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62 W | A | T | 63 E | R | M | A | I | 64 N | 65 P | L | E | A | T |
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66 T | R | I | O | 67 I | D | E | O | 68 E | L | A | T | E |
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69 O | T | O | S | 70 C | O | S | T | 71 N | Y | L | O | N |
© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,526
Across
1
Concomitant of ale. : CAKES
6
Cools. : ICES
10
Place to eat. : CAFE
14
Relish. : OLIVE
15
Marshal of France, 1914. : FOCH
16
Highly seasoned meat dish. : OLLA
17
Vexed: Colloq. : RILED
18
Plays a popular game. : SCRABBLES
20
Former Ambassador to U. S. S. R. : KENNAN
22
Seaport on Honshu. : KURE
23
Card. : ACE
24
Laugh contemptuously. : SNORT
26
Mischievous tricks. : PRANKS
28
Courtyard: Ger. : HOF
31
Cookers. : STEAMERS
33
Auspices. : EGIS
35
Estrangement. : ALIENATION
39
A very high mark. : APLUS
41
"___ See You Again." : ILL
42
The forest trees of an area. : SILVA
43
A dessert. : PUMPKINPIE
46
Bring up. : REAR
47
Rearranged the place cards. : RESEATED
49
Crafty. : SLY
50
Scribble. : SCRAWL
53
More unusual. : RARER
55
Sound of pleased surprise. : AHA
56
"___ Lynne." : EAST
58
Is filled with longing. : YEARNS
62
Public utility conduit. : WATERMAIN
65
Fold. : PLEAT
66
The Musketeers, for instance. : TRIO
67
Idea: Comb. form. : IDEO
68
Make joyful. : ELATE
69
Siouan Indians. : OTOS
70
Be priced at. : COST
71
Dress material. : NYLON
Down
1
City in Ireland. : CORK
2
"Father, I cannot tell ___ ... " : ALIE
3
Oven. : KILN
4
2, 4, 6, etc. : EVENS
5
Cars. : SEDANS
6
Suppositions. : IFS
7
Part of the social round. : COCKTAILPARTIES
8
Pale color. : ECRU
9
Make keener. : SHARPEN
10
Short thickset horse. : COB
11
Gov. Shivers. : ALLAN
12
National Open champion. : FLECK
13
Facilitates. : EASES
19
Catcher Larry and family. : BERRAS
21
Half of N. B. : NOTA
25
Do a tailoring repair job. : RELINE
27
Up and about. : ASTIR
28
A lot. : HEAP
29
NKVD succeeded this. : OGPU
30
Make a motion picture. : FILM
32
Ancient name of Malta. : MELITA
34
Above: Prefix. : SUPRA
36
French islands. : ILES
37
Shape of a football. : OVAL
38
Not one: Dial. : NARY
40
Pin for meat. : SKEWER
44
Pertaining to Moslems. : ISLAMIC
45
Inspiring fear. : EERY
48
Become intense. : DEEPEN
50
Looked after. : SAWTO
51
Diagram. : CHART
52
Fixed relation. : RATIO
54
Mass meeting. : RALLY
57
Carriage used in Java. : SADO
59
Genuine. : REAL
60
Gen. Norstad's new post. : NATO
61
British machine gun. : STEN
63
Aurora. : EOS
64
Negative. : NOT
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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