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Mel Taub
New York Times, Friday, July 27, 1956
Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 30.6
Mel Taub has 44 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 S | 2 C | 3 A | 4 R | 5 A | 6 C | 7 C | 8 A | 9 G | 10 A | 11 N | 12 G |
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13 E | L | B | O | 14 W | R | O | O | M | 15 S | O | F | A | R |
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16 S | U | B | M | A | R | I | N | E | 17 C | O | T | T | A |
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18 S | E | A | P | L | A | N | E | S | 19 A | S | S | E | Z |
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20 L | Y | S | 21 I | 22 D | L | E | ||||||||
23 L | 24 A | 25 P | 26 S | E | S | 27 W | O | O | D | L | 28 A | 29 N | 30 D |
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31 A | D | E | P | T | 32 O | W | E | 33 I | S | A | R |
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34 P | I | T | A | 35 R | 36 A | D | A | R | 37 V | O | T | E |
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38 P | E | A | R | 39 U | L | E | 40 R | E | N | T | S |
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41 S | U | L | E | 42 I | M | A | N | 43 S | E | R | G | E | S |
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44 T | A | L | C | 45 R | P | M | ||||||||
46 B | 47 E | 48 D | I | M | 49 A | 50 M | E | R | I | 51 C | 52 A | 53 N | 54 A |
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55 A | C | E | R | B | 56 R | E | G | U | L | A | T | O | R |
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57 T | R | E | E | S | 58 T | R | I | C | K | S | T | E | R |
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59 H | U | M | S | 60 E | L | S | E | 61 H | U | L | A |
© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,586
Across
1
Isolated rock. : SCAR
5
Medieval fabric of silk and gold. : ACCA
9
Crew. : GANG
13
Plenty of space. : ELBOWROOM
15
Up to now. : SOFAR
16
The Sea Wolf. : SUBMARINE
17
Short surplice. : COTTA
18
Aircraft. : SEAPLANES
19
Enough: Fr. : ASSEZ
20
French-Belgian river. : LYS
21
Doing nothing. : IDLE
23
Slight mistakes. : LAPSES
27
Forest. : WOODLAND
31
Expert. : ADEPT
32
Part of IOU. : OWE
33
Munich's river. : ISAR
34
Agave plant. : PITA
35
Important defense fence. : RADAR
37
15th Amendment guarantee. : VOTE
38
Bartlett. : PEAR
39
Rubber tree. : ULE
40
Lets. : RENTS
41
16th century Turkish conqueror. : SULEIMAN
43
Ridged fabrics. : SERGES
44
Chalky material. : TALC
45
Speed measurement of a wheel. : RPM
46
Darken. : BEDIM
49
U. S. historical items. : AMERICANA
55
Sour. : ACERB
56
Controlling device. : REGULATOR
57
Eucalypti. : TREES
58
Deceiver. : TRICKSTER
59
Buzzes. : HUMS
60
Different. : ELSE
61
Island dance. : HULA
Down
1
A sitting: Abbr. : SESS
2
Aid for Nero Wolfe. : CLUE
3
Israel's Eban. : ABBA
4
Frolic. : ROMP
5
Formations. : ARRAYS
6
Anna, sou, etc. : COINS
7
Peak of a volcano. : CONE
8
Midwestern college town. : AMESIOWA
9
Pâté de foie gras. : GOOSELIVER
10
Matinee times: Abbr. : AFTS
11
Man's nickname. : NATE
12
City in Austria. : GRAZ
14
Relative of a moneybag. : WALLET
15
Recipe direction. : SCALD
22
Worker. : DOER
23
Northern Europeans. : LAPPS
24
Bon voyage word. : ADIEU
25
Part of a rose. : PETAL
26
Insurance for blowouts. : SPARETIRES
27
Midweek god. : WODEN
28
"With ___ in My Heart." : ASONG
29
Braid or matting: Fr. : NATTE
30
Part of ensemble. : DRESS
35
Financier Beardsley ___. : RUML
36
Menu specification. : ALACARTE
40
Repeat a farm chore. : REMILK
42
Poetic feet. : IAMBS
43
Neat. : SPRUCE
45
St. ___, variety of raspberry. : REGIS
46
Watering place in England. : BATH
47
Light color. : ECRU
48
Judge. : DEEM
50
Blackbird. : MERL
51
Down payment. : CASH
52
Kiska's neighbor. : ATTU
53
Seasonal song. : NOEL
54
Irish exclamation. : ARRA
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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