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S. A. Kay
New York Times, Friday, August 8, 1958
Author:
S. A. Kay
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 310 (avg 1.64)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 17.1
S. A. Kay has 118 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 V | 2 I | 3 S | 4 A | 5 A | 6 G | 7 O | 8 G | 9 S | 10 T | 11 R | 12 I | 13 P |
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14 O | X | O | N | 15 C | O | R | E | 16 T | R | A | C | E |
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17 W | I | N | D | 18 C | U | L | T | 19 R | I | V | E | R |
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20 S | A | G | A | 21 M | O | R | E | 22 F | I | N | E | S | T |
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23 L | O | U | D | 24 P | U | N | K | |||||||
25 A | 26 V | 27 A | L | O | N | 28 B | E | R | G | E | 29 R | 30 A | 31 C |
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32 W | I | S | 33 S | T | 34 A | L | K | Y | 35 T | U | B | A |
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36 N | O | T | 37 R | E | 38 T | E | E | 39 B | Y | R | O | N |
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40 E | L | I | A | 41 C | H | A | S | 42 T | E | 43 A | V | E |
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44 D | A | R | T | 45 M | O | O | R | 46 A | B | 47 E | L | E | S |
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48 T | O | N | S | 49 T | R | O | T | |||||||
50 M | 51 U | 52 S | L | I | N | 53 S | A | P | P | H | 54 I | 55 R | 56 A |
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57 A | N | N | I | E | 58 H | O | M | O | 59 I | D | O | L |
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60 S | T | U | N | T | 61 H | Y | M | N | 62 C | L | U | B |
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63 S | O | G | G | Y | 64 D | A | Y | S | 65 S | E | X | I |
© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,328
Across
1
Passport matter. : VISA
5
Excited. : AGOG
9
Part of a landing field. : STRIP
14
Oxfordshire. : OXON
15
Fruit center. : CORE
16
Sign. : TRACE
17
Air in motion. : WIND
18
Sect. : CULT
19
St. Lawrence. : RIVER
20
Indian tribal chief. : SAGAMORE
22
Of the best. : FINEST
23
Noisy. : LOUD
24
Decayed wood. : PUNK
25
Island of Celtic myth. : AVALON
28
Cyrano de ___. : BERGERAC
32
Where Oshkosh is: Abbr. : WIS
33
Kipling's "___ & Co." : STALKY
35
Sousaphone. : TUBA
36
___ Dame. : NOTRE
38
Mound on the links. : TEE
39
English poet. : BYRON
40
"Essays of ___." : ELIA
41
Not ornate. : CHASTE
43
Harriman. : AVE
44
Famous English prison. : DARTMOOR
46
Poplar trees. : ABELES
48
Heavy weights. : TONS
49
Jog. : TROT
50
Cotton fabric. : MUSLIN
53
Wife of Ananias. : SAPPHIRA
57
One of the Oakleys. : ANNIE
58
Man: Lat. : HOMO
59
Object of devotion. : IDOL
60
Trapeze act, for example. : STUNT
61
"Adeste Fideles." : HYMN
62
___ sandwich. : CLUB
63
Wet. : SOGGY
64
Times. : DAYS
65
Six: Comb. form. : SEXI
Down
1
Promises of fidelity. : VOWS
2
Plant of the iris family. : IXIA
3
Roundelay. : SONG
4
One ___ (everybody). : ANDALL
5
Financial statement. : ACCOUNT
6
Calabash. : GOURD
7
Heraldic bearing. : ORLE
8
Acquire. : GET
9
Cord. : STRING
10
Trivial. : TRINKETY
11
Talk wildly. : RAVE
12
Desserts. : ICES
13
Bold. : PERT
21
Hunter's big game. : MOOSE
22
Storm of anger. : FURY
24
Lapdogs: Colloq. : PEKES
25
Bearded, like oats. : AWNED
26
Sebastian's twin sister. : VIOLA
27
On the move. : ASTIR
28
Misty or dim. : BLEAR
29
Not urban. : RURAL
30
Superior to. : ABOVE
31
Bamboo stems. : CANES
34
One of D'Artagnan's friends. : ATHOS
37
Lively. : RATTLING
39
Jitterbug's favorite. : BEBOP
41
Where New London is: Abbr. : CONN
42
Florida coast fish. : TARPONS
45
About a half. : MOIETY
47
Moral philosophy. : ETHICS
49
Debbie Reynolds' favorite song. : TAMMY
50
___ meeting. : MASS
51
Poetic preposition. : UNTO
52
Cozy. : SNUG
53
Useful bean. : SOYA
54
Doing nothing. : IDLE
55
Mixture for thickening gravy, soup, etc. : ROUX
56
City in S France. : ALBI
58
Hogshead: Abbr. : HHD
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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