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Thomas Meekin
Thomas Meekin

New York Times, Thursday, August 4, 1955

16-Across : Muse.

Author:
Thomas Meekin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 19.3 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Thomas Meekin has 202 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Note that this puzzle contains two factual errors. In 45-Across, a SEA STAR is not a mollusk; and in 54-Down, Grace Coolidge's middle name was Anna rather than ANNE.

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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,228
Across
1
Go in a zigzag course. : TACK
5
Roger! : OKAY
9
Sum. : TOTAL
14
Spanish stewpot. : OLLA
15
White frost. : RIME
16
Muse. : ERATO
17
Phrase meaning "get on with the job." : UPANDATIT
19
Lively children: Var. : TIKES
20
Swindler: Colloq. : CHISELER
21
Pressing. : URGENT
22
Villain in Book of Esther. : HAMAN
23
Where Malaga is. : SPAIN
24
Arrangements. : SYSTEMS
28
Part of N. B. : NOTA
31
Actor Ameche. : DON
34
___ of St. Louis. : SPIRIT
35
Main streets: Abbr. : AVES
36
Contemporary of Isaiah. : AMOS
38
Santa ___. : ANITA
39
Become known by accident. : LEAK
40
Crepuscular insect. : MOTH
41
Kitchen utensils. : RICERS
43
Transportation systems: Abbr. : RRS
44
Passable. : SOSO
45
Five-pointed marine mollusk. : SEASTAR
47
Ear shell. : ORMER
49
Puccini's "La ___." : TOSCA
53
Roof timber. : RAFTER
55
Shaper of garlands. : WREATHER
58
Make a law. : ENACT
59
Convict group. : CHAINGANG
60
Result. : ENSUE
61
City on the Rhine. : BONN
62
Secretly busy about. : UPTO
63
People of Latvia. : LETTS
64
Bends in the middle. : SAGS
65
Experiment. : TEST
Down
1
Method of typewriting. : TOUCH
2
Greek letter. : ALPHA
3
Area staked off for mining. : CLAIM
4
Where Wichita is. : KANSAS
5
Unwritten. : ORAL
6
Bird of prey. : KITE
7
Moslem ruler. : AMIR
8
Notwithstanding. : YET
9
Four: Comb. form. : TETRA
10
First. : ORIGINAL
11
Succeeded to the management of. : TAKENOVER
12
Solar disk. : ATEN
13
Bewildered. : LOST
18
Patron saint of France. : DENYS
21
Parvenu. : UPSTART
23
Strikes. : SMITES
25
Scantier. : SPARSER
26
Smaller. : TINIER
27
Violinist Morini. : ERICA
29
Briny drop. : TEAR
30
Inquires. : ASKS
31
Hoover, Shasta, Hungry Horse. : DAMS
32
Novel by Melville. : OMOO
33
Slower. : NOTSOFAST
37
Way of saving time. : SHORTCUT
42
Lucifer. : SATAN
46
Bootleg liquor. : ROTGUT
48
Apportions. : METES
50
Figure. : SHAPE
51
Dollars and ___. : CENTS
52
Patois. : ARGOT
53
Rod and ___. : REEL
54
Mrs. Coolidge's middle name. : ANNE
55
Injunction to a horse. : WHOA
56
Pealed. : RANG
57
German "one." : EINS
59
Well-known network. : CBS

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