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Brice Metcalfe
Brice Metcalfe

New York Times, Tuesday, January 1, 1963

25-Across : Musical toys.

Author:
Brice Metcalfe
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 8, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
Brice Metcalfe has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 4,915
Across
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Menu item. : SOUP
5
Stories. : FIBS
9
Relative of Gay-Pay-Oo. : NKVD
13
Part of Edison's name. : ALVA
14
His: Fr. : ALUI
15
Uninhibited critic. : BOOER
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Story-teller. : LIAR
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Blunt, matter-of-fact statement. : COLDTURKEY
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Come!: Lat. : ADESTE
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Greens. : BEETTOPS
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Forte. : LOUD
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To the ___ degree. : NTH
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Musical toys. : SWEETPOTATOES
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White ___? : ORRYE
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American dramatist. : RICE
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Crow's cousin. : ROOK
36
Roman god. : LAR
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Dark yellow. : MUSTARD
40
Single: Prefix. : UNI
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On a grand scale. : EPIC
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Closely akin. : NEAR
44
Lightened. : EASED
46
Familiar vocal encore. : SHORTNINBREAD
49
Tropical bird. : ANI
50
"Let George ___." : DOIT
51
One kind of order. : APPLEPIE
56
Pallas Athena's gift to Athens. : OLIVES
60
Service ribbons: Slang. : FRUITSALAD
62
Spanish painter. : SERT
63
Algerian soldier. : TURCO
64
Coffee grinder. : MILL
65
Report card quartet. : AAAA
66
Desertlike. : SERE
67
Naïve one. : BABE
68
Opposite of 1 Across. : NUTS
Down
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Reception hall, as in Manila. : SALA
2
Smelly. : OLID
3
Grapes: Lat. : UVAE
4
Potherb. : PARSLEY
5
Supine. : FACEUP
6
Labor group. : ILO
7
Onion or garlic. : BULB
8
___ dish. : SIDE
9
Cold wind in Kansas. : NORTHER
10
Gilbert and Sullivan role. : KOKO
11
Second in command: Slang. : VEEP
12
Those for the 18th. : DRYS
15
"Theirs ___ do and die ... " : BUTTO
18
Frame with hooks for stretching cloth. : TENTER
20
Clan emblem. : TOTEM
23
Thomas Hardy's Wessex. : DORSET
25
Fish course. : SOLE
26
Cape. : WRAP
27
"To ___ human ... " : ERRIS
28
Goliath. : TITAN
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Mite. : ACARID
30
Pickled pigs' feet. : SOUSE
34
Draftee's classification. : ONEA
35
17th cen. Scottish sea rover. : KIDD
38
Slits apart. : UNRIPS
39
"Dat ol' ___ sea." : DEBIL
42
Cup. : CHALICE
45
Handicraftsman. : ARTISAN
47
"And ___ grow on." : ONETO
48
Kind of 1 Across. : NOODLE
51
Day times: Abbr. : AFTS
52
Girl's nickname. : PRUE
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Sound of contentment. : PURR
54
Relative of a trochee. : IAMB
55
Lamb of "Roast Pig" fame. : ELIA
57
Meat on a French menu. : VEAU
58
Part of Q. E. D. : ERAT
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Network affiliates: Abbr. : STAS
61
New York city: Abbr. : ALB

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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