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W. E. Jones
New York Times, Thursday, July 30, 1953
Author:
W. E. Jones
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F J X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11, Grid flow: 29.5
Grid has duplicate clues.
W. E. Jones has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 P | 2 A | 3 L | 4 S | 5 R | 6 A | 7 D | 8 A | 9 R | 10 I | 11 V | 12 E | 13 S |
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14 U | N | A | U | 15 O | R | U | R | O | 16 N | E | S | T |
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17 M | I | M | I | 18 T | I | N | A | S | 19 O | N | C | E |
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20 P | L | O | T | 21 T | E | A | B | A | 22 G | 23 T | A | V |
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24 K | I | T | 25 E | E | L | 26 L | O | 27 B | U | L | E |
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28 I | N | T | 29 E | R | N | 30 Q | 31 U | I | B | E | R | O | N |
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32 N | E | A | R | S | 33 B | U | R | N | 34 R | A | P | S |
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35 N | E | 36 W | L | O | N | D | 37 O | N | ||||||
38 O | 39 S | 40 S | A | 41 H | A | T | S | 42 M | I | 43 S | 44 T | 45 Y |
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46 S | T | A | N | 47 D | I | S | H | 48 L | I | E | N | E | E |
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49 C | U | R | I | E | S | 50 B | O | T | 51 O | R | A |
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52 E | N | D | 53 S | T | 54 Y | 55 L | E | S | 56 A | R | M | S |
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57 O | T | I | 58 S | 59 L | A | I | N | E | 60 S | K | I | T |
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61 L | E | N | A | 62 E | L | M | E | R | 63 P | E | T | E |
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64 A | D | E | N | 65 R | U | N | T | S | 66 S | L | E | D |
© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,502
Across
1
A boy and his dog. : PALS
5
Detecting device in Civil Defense system. : RADAR
10
New York's re-elected Senator. : IVES
14
Two-toed sloth. : UNAU
15
Bolivian city, mining center, former capital. : ORURO
16
Bird's project. : NEST
17
Operatic heroine. : MIMI
18
Little Christine and others. : TINAS
19
Formerly. : ONCE
20
Framework of a drama. : PLOT
21
Orange pekoe container. : TEABAG
23
Hebrew letter. : TAV
24
Actress Cornell. : KIT
25
"Yet you balanced an ___ on the end of your nose ... " : EEL
26
Small rounded division of a leaf. : LOBULE
28
Detain in wartime. : INTERN
30
Bay, town, peninsula, on W. coast of France. : QUIBERON
32
Approaches. : NEARS
33
Put to the flambeau. : BURN
34
Spiritualistic knockings. : RAPS
35
Connecticut city, site of U. S. Coast Guard Academy. : NEWLONDON
38
Mountain in Greek myth. : OSSA
41
Clamp or profile creations. : HATS
42
Hazy. : MISTY
46
Priscilla Mullens' suitor. : STANDISH
48
One whose property is subject to a legal claim. : LIENEE
49
Noted Polish-French physicists. : CURIES
50
Study of plants: Abbr. : BOT
51
Pray: Latin. : ORA
52
Upshot. : END
53
First name of New Hampshire Senator. : STYLES
56
Sea inlets. : ARMS
57
American orator and patriot (1725–83). : OTIS
59
Singer Frankie. : LAINE
60
Part of a revue. : SKIT
61
3,000 mile Siberian river. : LENA
62
Commentator Gantry. : ELMER
63
Man's nickname. : PETE
64
British colony in Arabia. : ADEN
65
Undersized animals. : RUNTS
66
Coasting vehicle. : SLED
Down
1
Symbol of Hallowe'en. : PUMPKIN
2
Coal-tar dye base. : ANILINE
3
Middleweight boxing champion, 1950. : LAMOTTA
4
Zoot ___. : SUIT
5
Condition of Denmark in Hamlet's day. : ROTTEN
6
Character in "The Tempest." : ARIEL
7
Hungarian name of the Danube. : DUNA
8
Native of world's largest peninsula. : ARAB
9
Miss Russell of "Wonderful Town." : ROSALIND
10
Daughter of Cadmus. : INO
11
California city, lemon-growing center. : VENTURA
12
Marine mollusk. : ESCALOP
13
Secretary of the Army. : STEVENS
22
Lump. : GOB
25
Language of the Scotch Highlanders. : ERSE
27
Man's nickname. : BERNIE
29
Early opera by Verdi. : ERNANI
30
Said: Poetic. : QUOTH
31
Jardinieres. : URNS
33
"Ruy ___," Victor Hugo drama. : BLAS
36
He signed his paintings with a butterfly. : WHISTLER
37
Leave out. : OMIT
38
Famous Seminole chief. : OSCEOLA
39
Dwarfed. : STUNTED
40
Subway rider in rush hour. : SARDINE
43
Submarine's breathing tube. : SNORKEL
44
Wood-eating insect. : TERMITE
45
Fermented. : YEASTED
47
___ Plaines, Illinois. : DES
48
Dodgers, in 1949 and 1952 World Series. : LOSERS
50
Author of "John Brown's Body." : BENET
54
River on Korea's northern border. : YALU
55
Portray. : LIMN
56
Props for "Antony and Cleopatra." : ASPS
58
___ Juan. : SAN
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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