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Mel Taub
New York Times, Tuesday, January 15, 1957
53-Across : Ancient heroic tale.
Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Mel Taub has 44 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 F | 2 U | 3 S | 4 S | 5 R | 6 E | 7 S | 8 A | 9 Y | 10 T | 11 H | 12 O | 13 U |
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14 A | L | U | I | 15 O | R | A | T | E | 16 R | U | N | S |
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17 I | N | E | Z | 18 A | R | A | B | L | 19 E | A | G | U | E |
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20 R | A | Z | Z | 21 E | D | 22 R | A | L | L | I | E | S | ||
23 C | L | A | S | 24 S | 25 Y | E | L | P | ||||||
26 L | 27 O | R | E | T | T | A | 28 S | 29 D | I | S | 30 P | 31 E | 32 L |
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33 E | P | I | 34 S | E | T | A | 35 L | 36 S | E | R | V | E |
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37 D | I | S | 38 C | 39 R | U | L | E | 40 D | 41 S | E | E | R |
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42 O | N | I | O | 43 N | 44 P | A | R | E | 45 R | 46 S | R | O |
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47 N | E | S | T | O | 48 R | 49 D | O | C | I | 50 L | I | T | Y |
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51 T | R | E | 52 S | 53 I | L | I | A | D | ||||||
54 C | 55 L | A | M | A | N | 56 T | 57 A | S | C | E | 58 N | 59 T |
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60 B | U | L | G | A | R | I | A | 61 N | S | 62 K | N | O | W |
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63 A | B | B | E | 64 E | D | D | A | S | 65 E | T | N | A |
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66 B | A | S | S | 67 D | E | S | T | E | 68 Y | E | A | S |
© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 2,758
Across
1
Bustle. : FUSS
5
Iterate. : RESAY
10
Commandment pronoun. : THOU
14
His: Fr. : ALUI
15
Emulate Cicero. : ORATE
16
Seeks office. : RUNS
17
Senorita's name. : INEZ
18
Alliance formed in 1945. : ARABLEAGUE
20
Derided: Slang. : RAZZED
22
Pre-election meetings. : RALLIES
23
Kind. : CLASS
25
Sound from the kennel. : YELP
26
Miss Young and namesakes. : LORETTAS
29
Cause to vanish. : DISPEL
33
Outer: Prefix. : EPI
34
Bristlelike. : SETAL
36
Be in office. : SERVE
37
Rebate: Abbr. : DISC
39
Having lines. : RULED
41
Merlin, for example. : SEER
42
Ingredient of lyonnaise potatoes. : ONION
44
Knife. : PARER
46
Notice to playgoers. : SRO
47
Role in "Troilus and Cressida." : NESTOR
49
Tractability. : DOCILITY
51
Very: French. : TRES
53
Ancient heroic tale. : ILIAD
54
Demanding attention. : CLAMANT
57
A rising. : ASCENT
60
People of Varna. : BULGARIANS
62
Be informed. : KNOW
63
French clergyman. : ABBE
64
Icelandic tales. : EDDAS
65
Relative of Vesuvius. : ETNA
66
Fish. : BASS
67
Beatrice ___ of Renaissance fame. : DESTE
68
Vocal votes. : YEAS
Down
1
Pretty good. : FAIR
2
Animal's foreleg bone. : ULNA
3
Major U. N. problem. : SUEZCRISIS
4
Sound from the frying pan. : SIZZLE
5
Auto. : ROADSTER
6
Bungle. : ERR
7
French-German river. : SAAR
8
Cornered. : ATBAY
9
Followed the cheerleaders. : YELLED
10
Gads about: Dial. : TRAIPSES
11
Behemothlike. : HUGE
12
Responsibility. : ONUS
13
Application. : USE
19
___ Island. : ELLIS
21
The makings of a spread. : EATS
24
Showed surprise. : SATUP
26
Induced to proceed. : LEDON
27
Express a notion. : OPINE
28
Dish with a dressing. : SALAD
30
Gen. Batista's title. : PRESIDENTE
31
Turn inside out. : EVERT
32
Name derived from 35 Down. : LEROY
35
Louis XIV, for one. : LEROI
38
Summer homes. : COTTAGES
40
Lowered in social status. : DECLASSE
43
Druidic priestess of opera. : NORMA
45
Danish-American social reformer. : RIIS
48
Fostered. : REARED
50
Slavish follower. : LACKEY
52
Slyly insinuating: Colloq. : SNIDE
54
Where Guantanamo is. : CUBA
55
Law degrees. : LLBS
56
Urchins. : TADS
58
Roman goddess of fate. : NONA
59
Poetic contraction. : TWAS
60
"___ Ballads." : BAB
61
Washington ballplayer. : NAT
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later.
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