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Madeline Corse
New York Times, Tuesday, June 2, 1959
Author:
Madeline Corse
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.33)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 45.9
Madeline Corse has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 P | 2 A | 3 T | 4 R | 5 O | 6 L | 7 U | 8 P | 9 S | 10 I | 11 D | 12 E |
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13 O | R | I | O | L | E | 14 S | 15 F | L | E | E | R | E | D |
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16 D | E | N | T | A | T | E | 17 L | E | N | D | I | N | G |
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18 E | S | T | A | 19 I | N | 20 T | O | 21 N | A | S | T | Y |
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22 T | 23 O | N | S | O | R | 24 I | A | L | ||||||
25 A | 26 S | 27 T | O | R | 28 A | L | A | N | 29 I | 30 S | 31 L | 32 E |
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33 C | H | O | R | D | 34 A | T | E | 35 A | 36 B | A | T | E | D |
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37 C | A | D | 38 E | P | E | R | 39 G | N | E | 40 R | A | G |
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41 A | R | D | 42 O | R | S | 43 A | R | E | T | 44 H | U | S | A |
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45 D | E | Y | S | 46 I | 47 O | T | A | 48 T | A | M | E | R |
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49 S | 50 U | S | P | E | N | 51 D | E | D | ||||||
52 A | 53 S | 54 T | I | R | 55 A | S | I | A | 56 R | 57 I | 58 F | 59 E |
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60 S | P | E | C | I | 61 A | L | 62 T | R | 63 A | I | N | E | D |
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64 K | I | L | L | E | R | S | 65 E | N | G | A | G | E | D |
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66 S | T | E | E | L | Y | 67 S | O | N | A | T | A |
© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,609
Across
1
Boy Scout unit. : PATROL
7
___ down. : UPSIDE
13
Baseball team. : ORIOLES
15
Laughed derisively. : FLEERED
16
With toothed margin, as a leaf. : DENTATE
17
Business of a library. : LENDING
18
___ bien! (right!): Span. : ESTA
19
Go ___ (carry out an investigation). : INTO
21
Disagreeable, as weather. : NASTY
22
Pertaining to barbers. : TONSORIAL
25
Famous American family. : ASTOR
28
Chester ___ Arthur. : ALAN
29
Man or Wight. : ISLE
33
Having vertebrae. : CHORDATE
35
Lessened. : ABATED
37
No gentleman. : CAD
38
Ornamental dish. : EPERGNE
40
___ paper. : RAG
41
Enthusiasms. : ARDORS
43
Bog orchid. : ARETHUSA
45
Former rulers of Tripoli. : DEYS
46
Greek letter. : IOTA
48
Worker with animals. : TAMER
49
Hung. : SUSPENDED
52
In motion. : ASTIR
55
One of Mrs. Wiggs' daughters. : ASIA
56
Abundant. : RIFE
60
Exceptional. : SPECIAL
62
Instructed. : TRAINED
64
Famous Hemingway story (with "The"). : KILLERS
65
Busy. : ENGAGED
66
Hard. : STEELY
67
Piece of music. : SONATA
Down
1
Word element meaning foot. : PODE
2
Olympian god. : ARES
3
Shade. : TINT
4
Device on an axis. : ROTATOR
5
Palm leaf: Var. : OLA
6
Admit. : LETIN
7
Rubber tree. : ULE
8
Feather. : PENNA
9
City in Missouri. : SEDALIA
10
Rainbow. : IRIS
11
Hollow. : DENT
12
Irritable. : EDGY
14
Perceived by sight, hearing, etc. : SENSATE
15
Plants of a specified region. : FLORA
20
Bears. : TOLERATES
23
Sequence. : ORDER
24
Silly. : INANE
25
City in Nimrod's kingdom. : ACCAD
26
Apportion. : SHARE
27
Hot beverage. : TODDY
30
Play a banjo. : STRUM
31
Legal instrument. : LEASE
32
One of Degas' names. : EDGAR
34
One of two points in an orbit. : APSIS
36
Actress Davis. : BETTE
39
Quarry product. : GRANITE
42
Little bone. : OSSICLE
44
Builder of Roman wall in Britain. : HADRIAN
47
Gem stones. : OPALS
50
Archangel. : URIEL
51
Mends. : DARNS
52
Requests. : ASKS
53
Narrow point of land. : SPIT
54
Word element meaning distant. : TELE
57
Name meaning daughter. : INGA
58
Metrical units. : FEET
59
Norse poetry. : EDDA
61
Relating to: Suffix. : ARY
63
In the past. : AGO
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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