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Leonard Sussman
New York Times, Thursday, January 24, 1963
40-Across : Huge ones.
Author:
Leonard Sussman
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Leonard Sussman has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 B | 2 A | 3 B | 4 A | 5 B | 6 R | 7 O | 8 C | 9 A | 10 D | 11 R | 12 E |
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13 A | L | O | P | 14 S | O | A | P | 15 U | R | I | E | L |
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16 L | I | M | E | 17 T | U | D | E | 18 T | R | E | V | I |
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19 E | B | B | 20 P | E | R | I | 21 G | R | O | S | S | |||
22 S | I | S | 23 T | E | R | S | I | 24 N | L | A | W | |||
25 I | R | E | N | E | 26 O | U | T | S | 27 I | 28 Z | 29 E |
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30 E | 31 N | G | I | N | E | 32 T | I | M | E | 33 N | O | N |
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34 S | O | H | O | 35 M | A | R | 36 S | C | A | N |
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37 A | U | T | 38 B | 39 O | E | R | 40 T | 41 I | T | A | N | S |
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42 U | N | S | 43 E | A | T | S | 44 A | R | D | O | R | |||
45 T | R | I | A | 46 L | B | A | L | A | N | 47 C | 48 E |
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49 G | 50 R | U | B | S | 51 A | L | L | Y | 52 A | A | R |
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53 H | A | I | D | A | 54 B | R | A | E | 55 S | T | I | R |
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56 U | M | B | E | R | 57 A | D | Z | E | 58 R | E | N | O |
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59 M | E | S | S | Y | 60 L | Y | E | 61 O | D | E | R |
© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 4,935
Across
1
Rich cake. : BABA
5
Family member: Abbr. : BRO
8
Military group. : CADRE
13
Hanging unevenly. : ALOP
14
Shampoo. : SOAP
15
Archangel. : URIEL
16
Candy flavoring. : LIME
17
Noun suffix. : TUDE
18
Historic fountain in Rome. : TREVI
19
Kind of tide. : EBB
20
Persian elf. : PERI
21
Twelve dozen. : GROSS
22
Members of the family. : SISTERSINLAW
25
Greek princess. : IRENE
26
Too large. : OUTSIZE
30
Mechanical contrivance. : ENGINE
32
Season. : TIME
33
Sine qua ___. : NON
34
London section. : SOHO
35
Calendar abbreviation. : MAR
36
Look through hastily. : SCAN
37
Self: Prefix. : AUT
38
Fighter of 1899-1902. : BOER
40
Huge ones. : TITANS
42
Defeats the incumbent. : UNSEATS
44
Enthusiasm. : ARDOR
45
Bookkeeping maneuver. : TRIALBALANCE
49
Insect larvae. : GRUBS
51
Unite (with). : ALLY
52
Swiss river. : AAR
53
Indian of British Columbia. : HAIDA
54
Highland hillside. : BRAE
55
Quicken. : STIR
56
Pigment. : UMBER
57
Carpenter's tool. : ADZE
58
City on the Truckee. : RENO
59
Untidy. : MESSY
60
Caustic stuff. : LYE
61
Frankfort's river. : ODER
Down
1
Cargo on Mississippi boats. : BALES
2
Excuse. : ALIBI
3
Instruments on B-29's. : BOMBSIGHTS
4
Anthropoid. : APE
5
Stock exchange of Paris. : BOURSE
6
Spokes. : RADII
7
Poetic "unclose." : OPE
8
Kind of store. : CUTRATE
9
Quiver contents. : ARROWS
10
Day: Lat. : DIES
11
Speed (up), as a motor. : REVS
12
Man's name meaning "the highest." : ELI
14
18th century novelist. : STERNE
20
Wedge-shaped head of a hammer. : PEEN
21
Morose. : GLUM
23
Musical group. : TRIO
24
Cafe ___. : NOIR
27
Invested with human form. : INCARNATED
28
Biblical name of Tanis, Egypt. : ZOAN
29
Austrian river. : ENNS
30
Biblical herdsman. : ESAU
31
Word. : NOUN
32
Product of shale. : TAR
35
Butte's cousin. : MESA
36
Covered walk. : STOA
38
Moslem region in North Africa. : BARBARY
39
Revolutionary patriot. : OTIS
40
County seat of County Kerry. : TRALEE
41
Indolently. : IDLY
43
Musical works. : ETUDES
44
Burning. : ABLAZE
46
Tending to become fat. : LARDY
47
Famous fictional ship. : CAINE
48
Infielder's bugaboo. : ERROR
49
Ready: Colloq. : GAME
50
Umbrella parts. : RIBS
53
Sound of activity. : HUM
54
___ Tabarin. : BAL
55
Rialto sign. : SRO
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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