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A. H. Drummond, Jr.
New York Times, Saturday, May 25, 1957
2-Down : Jai ___.
Author:
A. H. Drummond, Jr.
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Grid has repeated answers.
A. H. Drummond, Jr. has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 A | 3 F | 4 E | 5 S | 6 A | 7 K | 8 E | 9 S | 10 F | 11 L | 12 A | 13 P |
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14 O | L | A | N | 15 T | R | I | L | L | 16 L | O | B | O |
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17 F | A | C | T | 18 S | A | N | D | F | I | 19 G | U | R | E | S |
20 T | I | T | R | A | T | E | 21 C | U | R | D | L | E |
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22 F | I | N | E | 23 F | 24 A | K | I | R | ||||||
25 C | 26 R | I | E | D | 27 M | A | L | 28 D | Y | 29 A | 30 D | 31 S |
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32 H | A | N | S | 33 S | A | V | I | 34 N | E | 35 N | O | W |
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36 E | N | D | 37 A | P | R | O | P | O | S | 38 T | O | E |
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39 A | G | E | 40 S | A | B | R | E | S | 41 A | I | D | A |
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42 P | E | R | 43 C | H | 44 L | E | D | 45 S | T | C | Y | R |
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46 A | C | 47 T | E | D | 48 S | E | L | L | ||||||
49 F | 50 E | 51 L | L | A | H | 52 S | T | R | A | I | 53 N | 54 S |
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55 O | R | G | A | N | I | 56 Z | 57 A | T | I | O | N | M | A | N |
58 A | N | T | I | 59 N | I | G | E | L | 60 T | A | H | R |
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61 M | O | N | S | 62 S | P | E | N | T | 63 A | X | E | S |
© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 2,888
Across
1
Unharmed. : SAFE
5
Interests. : SAKES
10
Part of an envelope. : FLAP
14
Pearl Buck character. : OLAN
15
Musical sound. : TRILL
16
Wolf: Span. : LOBO
17
Raw material for decisions. : FACTSANDFIGURES
20
Test by a chemical process. : TITRATE
21
Coagulate. : CURDLE
22
Word of approval. : FINE
23
Hindu ascetic. : FAKIR
25
Hawked. : CRIED
27
Badly: Prefix. : MAL
28
Pairs. : DYADS
32
Dutch name. : HANS
33
Red cedar. : SAVINE
35
Forthwith. : NOW
36
Put a stop to. : END
37
By the way. : APROPOS
38
Digit. : TOE
39
Jack Benny's is 39. : AGE
40
U.S. jets. : SABRES
41
Opera set in Memphis. : AIDA
42
Food fish. : PERCH
44
Went first. : LED
45
Former "West Point" of France. : STCYR
46
Behaved. : ACTED
48
Persuade: Colloq. : SELL
49
Laborer in Egypt. : FELLAH
52
Filters. : STRAINS
55
William H. Whyte Jr.'s subject. : ORGANIZATIONMAN
58
Not for. : ANTI
59
Hero of Scott novel. : NIGEL
60
Wild goat of Nepal. : TAHR
61
City in Belgium. : MONS
62
Disbursed. : SPENT
63
Tomahawks. : AXES
Down
1
Delicate. : SOFT
2
Jai ___. : ALAI
3
Man after the truth. : FACTFINDER
4
Vestibules. : ENTRIES
5
Washington, for example. : STATE
6
English composer. : ARNE
7
Tease: Slang. : KID
8
Dwarf. : ELF
9
Type of magazine. : SLICK
10
Spurt. : FLURRY
11
Chronicler of Pearl Harbor. : LORD
12
Genesis name. : ABEL
13
Propound. : POSE
18
Contents of certain boxes. : SAND
19
Pilots. : GUIDES
23
Specially privileged. : FAVORED
24
Wing-footed, as a bat. : ALIPED
25
Easily got. : CHEAP
26
Cowboy's home. : RANGE
27
Type of cake. : MARBLE
29
Novelistic disappointment. : ANTICLIMAX
30
Howdy ___. : DOODY
31
Trust implicitly (with "by"). : SWEAR
33
Resort. : SPA
34
French pronoun. : NOS
37
Depth charge: Slang. : ASHCAN
41
Where Peachtree Street is. : ATLANTA
43
French city opposite Dover. : CALAIS
45
Immunology prefix. : SERO
47
Becomes scantier. : THINS
48
Basketball's Wilt the ___. : STILT
49
Type of rubber. : FOAM
50
Hungarian man's name. : ERNO
51
2,240 pounds: Abbr. : LGTN
52
British gun. : STEN
53
Nearness: Ger. : NAHE
54
Portuguese gentlemen: Abbr. : SNRS
56
Energy: Colloq. : ZIP
57
Epoch. : AGE
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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