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Herbert Ettenson
New York Times, Wednesday, May 28, 1958
Author:
Herbert Ettenson
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 44.5
Herbert Ettenson has 87 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 F | 2 A | 3 C | 4 E | 5 D | 6 A | 7 L | 8 I | 9 F | 10 A | 11 C | 12 T | 13 O |
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14 A | M | U | R | 15 E | R | I | N | 16 A | L | L | I | N |
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17 L | I | S | A | 18 B | A | N | K | 19 S | L | A | K | E |
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20 L | S | T | 21 S | A | M | E | 22 S | H | O | W | E | R |
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23 S | H | O | 24 R | T | C | I | R | 25 C | U | I | T | |||
26 M | E | A | L | S | 27 P | R | O | S | 28 P | 29 E | 30 R |
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31 S | 32 E | M | I | T | E | 33 C | A | E | N | 34 O | P | A |
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35 I | R | A | N | I | 36 D | R | S | 37 P | 38 A | R | I | S |
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39 L | I | D | 40 O | 41 B | E | Y | 42 F | L | I | T | C | H |
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43 O | C | E | 44 A | N | I | A | 45 J | O | A | D | S | |||
46 S | W | A | L | 47 L | O | W | T | A | I | 48 L | 49 S |
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50 A | 51 G | 52 A | M | A | S | 53 A | B | L | E | 54 D | I | P |
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55 S | O | B | I | G | 56 R | U | L | E | 57 L | E | N | O |
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58 P | A | B | L | O | 59 O | D | O | R | 60 E | R | G | O |
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61 S | T | E | E | N | 62 T | S | T | S | 63 I | S | O | N |
© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,256
Across
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The style or cut of type. : FACE
5
Modern artist. : DALI
9
Ipso ___. : FACTO
14
Manchurian river. : AMUR
15
Land of Tralee. : ERIN
16
___ all (as a whole). : ALLIN
17
Actress Kirk. : LISA
18
Teller's milieu. : BANK
19
Quench. : SLAKE
20
Wartime craft. : LST
21
Equal. : SAME
22
Summer rain. : SHOWER
23
Cause of power failure. : SHORTCIRCUIT
26
Board. : MEALS
27
Flourish. : PROSPER
31
Arab. : SEMITE
33
City on the Orne River. : CAEN
34
Wartime agency. : OPA
35
Native of Meshed. : IRANI
36
Holders of academic titles: Abbr. : DRS
37
Trojan prince. : PARIS
39
Movable cover. : LID
40
Execute, as an order. : OBEY
42
Side of bacon. : FLITCH
43
South Sea Islands. : OCEANIA
45
Steinbeck's Okies. : JOADS
46
Large butterflies. : SWALLOWTAILS
50
Lizards. : AGAMAS
53
Qualified. : ABLE
54
Slope. : DIP
55
Novel by Edna Ferber. : SOBIG
56
Yardstick. : RULE
57
Gauzy fabric. : LENO
58
Picasso. : PABLO
59
Perfume. : ODOR
60
Therefore: Lat. : ERGO
61
Dutch genre painter. : STEEN
62
Calls for silence. : TSTS
63
"The bird ___ the wing." : ISON
Down
1
Cascade. : FALLS
2
Followers of Jacob Ammann. : AMISH
3
Specially manufactured. : CUSTOMMADE
4
Significant date. : ERA
5
Violent disruption. : DEBACLE
6
Musketeer. : ARAMIS
7
Relative of a fly. : LINER
8
Product of nut-gall. : INK
9
George Bryan Brummell, for one. : FASHIONPLATE
10
Distributes in portions. : ALLOTS
11
Forked end of a hammer. : CLAW
12
Small child: Colloq. : TIKE
13
Unicum. : ONER
21
Suburban vehicle. : STATIONWAGON
22
Indisputable. : SURE
24
Curb. : REIN
25
Tax experts: Colloq. : CPAS
28
Southpaws. : PORTSIDERS
29
"Beowulf," for example. : EPIC
30
Imprudent. : RASH
31
Fodder holder. : SILO
32
Actor Portman. : ERIC
33
"Eureka!" for one. : CRY
36
Big ___. : DEAL
38
Role for Zinka Milanov. : AIDA
41
Inclination. : BIAS
42
___ "Modern English Usage." : FOWLERS
44
"With ___ and a Song." : ASMILE
45
Goods for sale as one quantity. : JOBLOT
47
Extols. : LAUDS
48
Dialect. : LINGO
49
Golf club. : SPOON
50
Vipers. : ASPS
51
Pan's prototype. : GOAT
52
Mrs. Cugat. : ABBE
56
Nonsense! : ROT
57
Garland. : LEI
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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