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William F. Bulow
New York Times, Thursday, August 19, 1954
Author:
William F. Bulow
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11, Grid flow: 52.7
1 A | 2 R | 3 A | 4 S | | 5 B | 6 A | 7 L | 8 I | | 9 T | 10 A | 11 P | 12 I | 13 S |
14 M | O | R | O | | 15 I | D | A | S | | 16 E | R | O | D | E |
17 I | S | A | R | | 18 K | E | N | T | | 19 A | I | S | L | E |
20 S | I | D | E | 21 W | I | N | D | | | | 22 S | T | E | M |
23 S | E | A | S | O | N | | 24 S | 25 P | 26 I | 27 D | E | R | | |
| | | 28 P | R | I | 29 N | C | E | T | O | N | I | 30 A | 31 N |
32 E | 33 R | 34 G | O | T | | 35 E | A | T | A | T | | 36 D | U | E |
37 P | E | R | T | | 38 E | X | P | E | L | | 39 V | E | T | O |
40 I | N | A | | 41 O | T | T | E | R | | 42 B | O | R | O | S |
43 C | O | F | 44 F | E | E | T | A | S | 45 T | E | R | | | |
| | 46 T | E | N | S | O | R | | 47 A | N | T | 48 I | 49 C | 50 S |
51 A | 52 M | I | R | | | | 53 T | 54 O | R | T | I | L | L | A |
55 H | E | N | R | 56 Y | | 57 L | I | S | T | | 58 C | O | O | L |
59 E | N | G | E | M | | 60 I | S | L | A | | 61 E | N | T | E |
62 M | E | S | T | A | | 63 E | T | O | N | | 64 S | A | S | S |
© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,878
Across
1
5
Island paradise near Sumatra. :
BALI9
Heavy woven cloth for curtain, carpet, etc. :
TAPIS14
Philippine Moslem. :
MORO15
Mrs. Cantor and others. :
IDAS16
17
River flowing through Munich. :
ISAR18
Canterbury's county. :
KENT19
20
This puts airplanes off course. :
SIDEWIND22
Slow down in skiing. :
STEM23
24
28
32
35
Patronize a restaurant. :
EATAT36
37
38
39
Political negative. :
VETO40
41
Weasel's relative. :
OTTER42
U. S. Open champion, 1952. :
BOROS43
46
47
51
Afghanistan prince. :
AMIR53
55
57
58
59
Cover with jewels. :
ENGEM60
61
Grafted: Heraldry. :
ENTE62
Washington hostess. :
MESTA63
64
Garden vegetables: Dial. :
SASS
Down
1
2
Girl in an old song. :
ROSIE3
4
Subject about which one is sensitive. :
SORESPOT5
6
Afro-Arabian gulf. :
ADEN7
8
9
10
11
Mail carrier of the pony express. :
POSTRIDER12
13
21
Infusion of malt, in beer making. :
WORT25
26
27
29
30
31
Admirers of new trends. :
NEOS32
33
Separation center. :
RENO34
38
39
41
42
44
45
48
49
50
Closing out operations. :
SALES51
52
Part of the handwriting on the wall. :
MENE54
This was Christiania. :
OSLO56
57
Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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