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Mel Taub
New York Times, Monday, October 14, 1957
68-Across : Girl, à la Runyon.
Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Mel Taub has 44 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 B | 2 O | 3 W | 4 L | 5 C | 6 A | 7 R | 8 O | 9 M | 10 S | 11 I | 12 B | 13 S |
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14 A | P | I | A | 15 O | H | A | R | A | 16 E | R | A | L |
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17 B | E | L | G | 18 N | A | M | B | Y | 19 P | A | M | B | Y |
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20 U | N | L | O | 21 A | D | 22 S | I | D | E | W | A | Y | ||
23 Y | O | Y | O | 24 S | 25 T | A | R | A | ||||||
26 T | 27 U | N | N | E | L | E | 28 D | 29 Y | E | L | 30 P | 31 E | 32 D |
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33 U | N | I | 34 S | E | T | U | 35 P | 36 S | L | I | G | O |
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37 F | I | L | 38 M | 39 D | O | M | E | 40 D | 41 S | A | R | T |
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42 T | O | L | E | 43 T | 44 N | A | T | A | 45 L | 46 N | E | T |
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47 S | N | Y | D | E | 48 R | 49 S | E | R | E | 50 N | I | T | Y |
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51 U | S | E | 52 S | 53 S | K | I | E | S | ||||||
54 P | 55 E | L | T | A | T | 56 E | 57 E | R | A | S | 58 E | 59 D |
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60 D | I | L | L | Y | D | A | L | 61 L | Y | 62 R | I | V | E |
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63 U | S | M | A | 64 E | L | A | T | E | 65 E | M | I | L |
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66 B | A | S | E | 67 R | E | N | D | S | 68 D | O | L | L |
© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 3,030
Across
1
Football stadium. : BOWL
5
Billiard shot. : CAROM
10
Brothers or sisters. : SIBS
14
Upolu Island port. : APIA
15
Creator of Pal Joey. : OHARA
16
Of a time period. : ERAL
17
Native of Brussels: Abbr. : BELG
18
Insipid. : NAMBYPAMBY
20
Get rid of. : UNLOAD
22
Road off the main thoroughfare. : SIDEWAY
23
Playthings for junior. : YOYOS
25
Home in "Gone With the Wind." : TARA
26
Dug, as a sand hog. : TUNNELED
29
Barked. : YELPED
33
Numerical prefix. : UNI
34
Establish. : SETUP
36
Irish county. : SLIGO
37
Kinescope. : FILM
39
Having a circular roof. : DOMED
41
Iranian Turk. : SART
42
Realtor's sign. : TOLET
44
Province of South Africa. : NATAL
46
Gain. : NET
47
Truman's Secy. of Treasury. : SNYDER
49
Quietude. : SERENITY
51
Applications. : USES
53
Firmament. : SKIES
54
Shield-shaped, as nasturtium leaves. : PELTATE
57
Removed all trace of. : ERASED
60
Waste time. : DILLYDALLY
62
Cleave. : RIVE
63
Army. : USMA
64
Make buoyant. : ELATE
65
Biographer Ludwig. : EMIL
66
Inferior in quality. : BASE
67
Sunders. : RENDS
68
Girl, à la Runyon. : DOLL
Down
1
Hindu title. : BABU
2
Clear. : OPEN
3
Whether one wishes it or not. : WILLYNILLY
4
Shallow lake. : LAGOON
5
Expressed sympathy. : CONDOLED
6
Triumphant exclamation. : AHA
7
Butts against. : RAMS
8
Sphere of influence. : ORBIT
9
Traditional spring festival. : MAYDAY
10
Dikes. : SEAWALLS
11
Former Marie Wilson role. : IRMA
12
Pamper. : BABY
13
Surreptitious. : SLY
19
French parents. : PERES
21
Voice votes. : AYES
24
Attack. : SETON
26
College in Medford, Mass. : TUFTS
27
South Africa or U. S. : UNION
28
Creator of Monte Cristo. : DUMAS
30
Very soft, in music. : PIANISSIMO
31
White bird. : EGRET
32
Lamour's nickname. : DOTTY
35
Lawford and Ustinov, for short. : PETES
38
Bone marrows: Anat. : MEDULLAE
40
"Otchi Tchornyia," in English. : DARKEYES
43
Peevish. : TESTY
45
Celtic Neptune: Var. : LEIR
48
Publisher's aide. : READER
50
Drew nigh. : NEARED
52
Hackneyed. : STALE
54
City of Tuscany. : PISA
55
Trees. : ELMS
56
Verve. : ELAN
58
Pernicious. : EVIL
59
Sheltered glen. : DELL
60
___ in (insert, as dialogue, in a sound track). : DUB
61
British "Inc." : LTD
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 6 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.