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John Finch
New York Times, Saturday, May 7, 1977
33-Down : ___ in one's bonnet
Author:
John Finch
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15,
Words: 76,
Blocks: 38,
Avg Word Len: 4.92,
Min Word Len: 4,
Missing: { Q W X Y Z },
Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 21.4
John Finch has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 T | 3 A | 4 R | | 5 E | 6 L | 7 I | 8 S | | 9 L | 10 A | 11 S | 12 S | 13 O |
14 K | E | N | O | | 15 L | O | C | O | | 16 O | R | E | A | D |
17 A | C | T | V | | 18 A | B | E | L | | 19 G | R | A | D | E |
20 T | H | E | E | 21 M | P | E | R | O | 22 R | J | O | N | E | S |
23 E | S | D | R | A | S | | | 24 S | H | A | G | | | |
| | | | 25 L | E | 26 T | 27 A | | 28 I | M | A | 29 G | 30 E | 31 S |
32 C | 33 A | 34 R | 35 P | E | | 36 A | N | 37 O | N | | 38 N | O | D | E |
39 A | B | I | E | | 40 T | R | I | P | E | | 41 C | O | N | E |
42 S | E | N | D | | 43 R | O | M | A | | 44 S | E | D | A | N |
45 H | E | G | I | 46 R | A | | 47 A | L | 48 A | I | | | | |
| | | 49 C | E | S | 50 T | | | 51 S | T | 52 A | 53 M | 54 P | 55 S |
56 A | 57 T | 58 O | U | C | H | O | 59 F | 60 T | H | E | P | O | E | T |
61 S | H | A | R | E | | 62 R | E | A | M | | 63 A | R | E | A |
64 C | E | R | E | D | | 65 T | A | P | A | | 66 C | E | L | L |
67 H | E | S | S | E | | 68 S | T | E | N | | 69 E | S | S | E |
© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,129
Across
1
5
9
14
15
16
17
The last of "Hamlet" :
ACTV18
First fratricide victim :
ABEL19
20
23
Book of the Apocrypha :
ESDRAS24
25
"___ Smile Be Your Umbrella" :
LETA28
32
36
38
Joint familiar to a botanist :
NODE39
Hero of 2,327 performances :
ABIE40
Pepper-pot ingredient :
TRIPE41
42
43
44
45
47
Russian mountain range :
ALAI49
51
Hobby of George V and F.D.R. :
STAMPS56
61
Word with cropper or holder :
SHARE62
63
64
Mummified, in a way :
CERED65
66
67
Author of "Steppenwolf" :
HESSE68
British machine gun :
STEN69
Down
1
2
3
Sweetened the pot :
ANTED4
5
6
Spot for an earring :
LOBE7
8
9
10
11
Playwright O'Casey :
SEAN12
Libertine Marquis de ___ :
SADE13
21
22
26
27
29
30
31
32
Item on the barrelhead :
CASH33
___ in one's bonnet :
ABEE34
35
37
40
44
Developer's interest :
SITE46
48
50
Lawyer's business, at times :
TORTS52
53
54
55
56
He wrote "The Nazarene" :
ASCH57
58
59
60
Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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