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W. E. Jones
New York Times, Saturday, May 7, 1955
Author:
W. E. Jones
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.46, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 43.3
W. E. Jones has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 C | 2 A | 3 L | 4 A | 5 B | 6 A | 7 S | 8 H | 9 S | 10 H | 11 A | 12 M | 13 E | 14 R |
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15 O | V | E | R | R | I | P | E | 16 P | A | L | A | T | E |
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17 H | A | R | R | I | D | A | N | 18 A | T | Y | P | I | C |
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19 A | L | I | 20 C | A | R | R | 21 I | D | E | 22 L | O | A |
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23 N | O | D | 24 S | 25 S | Y | C | E | 26 B | E | L | L |
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27 N | A | T | 28 A | 29 L | 30 A | R | 31 S | E | N | A | L |
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32 E | L | O | 33 P | 34 E | R | 35 K | N | U | T | |||||
36 P | 37 O | E | T | S | L | A | U | 38 R | E | A | T | E | ||
39 A | B | L | E | 40 A | U | S | T | E | R | |||||
41 A | L | L | E | R | 42 G | Y | 43 S | T | E | 44 P | 45 S | |||
46 T | E | A | R | 47 R | E | 48 P | 49 S | 50 S | E | E | 51 D |
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52 O | F | T | 53 S | A | R | O | N | 54 G | 55 S | 56 S | A | O |
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57 S | A | I | 58 R | E | Y | 59 L | I | M | A | 60 P | E | R | U |
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61 S | C | O | U | S | E | 62 A | D | A | M | I | T | E | S |
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63 A | E | N | E | I | D | 64 R | E | N | E | G | A | D | E |
© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,139
Across
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"Good night, Mrs. ___, wherever you are." : CALABASH
9
Reproachful person. : SHAMER
15
Too mature. : OVERRIPE
16
Roof of the mouth. : PALATE
17
Vixen. : HARRIDAN
18
Differing from the norm. : ATYPIC
19
Mohammed ___, Pakistan Premier. : ALI
20
Trip on wheels. : CARRIDE
22
Mauna ___. : LOA
23
Signifies assent. : NODS
25
In India, a groom for horses. : SYCE
26
Time signal. : BELL
27
Member of the Union of South Africa. : NATAL
30
Storehouse for guns. : ARSENAL
32
Traveler to Gretna Green. : ELOPER
35
Novelist Hamsun. : KNUT
36
Shadwell and Austin, for example. : POETSLAUREATE
39
Qualified. : ABLE
40
The south wind. : AUSTER
41
Hay fever. : ALLERGY
43
Goes on a date (with "out"). : STEPS
46
Rip. : TEAR
47
Ribbed fabrics. : REPS
50
___ pearl. : SEED
52
"___ in the stilly night ... " : OFT
53
Garments in Malaya. : SARONGS
56
___ Luiz, Brazilian seaport. : SAO
57
Character in "Martin Chuzzlewit." : SAIREY
59
President Odria's capital. : LIMAPERU
61
Sailors' stew. : SCOUSE
62
Human beings. : ADAMITES
63
Vergilian epic. : AENEID
64
Quisling. : RENEGADE
Down
1
"Yankee Doodle Dandy." : COHAN
2
Mythical island paradise. : AVALON
3
City in NE Spain. : LERIDA
4
Timetable abbreviation. : ARR
5
___-a-brac. : BRIC
6
Zinka Milanov role. : AIDA
7
Airplane wing parts. : SPARS
8
Sen. Dworshak. : HENRY
9
Worker in a garden. : SPADER
10
Detest. : HATE
11
___ Khan. : ALY
12
Popular sundae flavor. : MAPLENUT
13
Bleach. : ETIOLATE
14
Method of removing a public official. : RECALL
21
Flier of Greek myth. : ICARUS
24
Iron worker. : STEELER
26
City on the Ganges. : BENARES
28
Make otherwise. : ALTER
29
___ Alamos. : LOS
31
Kind of trapshooting. : SKEET
33
Katharine Cornell, for instance. : PLAYER
34
Water: Fr. : EAU
36
Bob Hope's Indian picture (with "The"). : PALEFACE
37
Offering to a deity. : OBLATION
38
Stock market abbreviation. : RTS
41
Mother of Xerxes. : ATOSSA
42
Tended to whiten. : GRAYED
44
Coin current on the Prado. : PESETA
45
Scorched. : SEARED
48
___ regions. : POLAR
49
Spurious, mean: Slang. : SNIDE
51
Drench. : DOUSE
53
West Indian food fish. : SESI
54
Federal investigator. : GMAN
55
Identical. : SAME
58
Regret. : RUE
60
Oblong casting of iron. : PIG
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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