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Irving L. Rosenheim
New York Times, Saturday, October 22, 1955
25-Across : Delays by evasive tricks: Colloq.
Author:
Irving L. Rosenheim
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q W X }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Grid has duplicate clues.
Irving L. Rosenheim has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 P | 2 A | 3 S | 4 S | 5 S | 6 C | 7 O | 8 T | 9 T | 10 M | 11 A | 12 N | 13 O |
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14 U | T | A | H | 15 L | U | C | I | E | 16 A | L | O | P |
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17 P | O | U | R | 18 A | F | T | E | R | 19 R | A | G | E |
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20 S | P | L | I | 21 T | T | F | O | R | M | 22 A | T | I | O | N |
23 L | I | E | S | 24 I | V | Y | ||||||||
25 S | 26 T | 27 A | L | L | S | 28 G | 29 E | N | E | R | 30 A | 31 T | 32 E |
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33 C | O | V | E | T | 34 F | L | E | U | R | 35 G | I | N |
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36 O | V | E | R | 37 H | A | I | L | S | 38 B | E | N | T |
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39 P | E | R | 40 H | A | N | D | Y | 41 R | A | N | G | E |
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42 E | S | T | 43 R | A | N | G | E | 44 S | E | T | T | E | R |
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45 E | R | G | 46 S | C | A | T | ||||||||
47 C | 48 O | 49 L | U | M | B | 50 I | 51 A | C | O | L | L | 52 E | 53 G | 54 E |
55 A | L | A | S | 56 I | D | L | E | R | 57 E | V | I | L |
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58 S | I | Z | E | 59 R | E | I | N | E | 60 R | I | Z | A |
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61 T | O | E | S | 62 D | A | T | E | D | 63 S | E | A | N |
© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,307
Across
1
Forward or lateral. : PASS
5
Great ___! : SCOTT
10
___ War. : MANO
14
Home of the Redskins. : UTAH
15
French girl's name. : LUCIE
16
Hanging askew. : ALOP
17
Shower. : POUR
18
Next to in rank. : AFTER
19
Prevailing fashion. : RAGE
20
Football maneuver. : SPLITTFORMATION
23
Palters. : LIES
24
College league. : IVY
25
Delays by evasive tricks: Colloq. : STALLS
28
Produce. : GENERATE
33
Long for. : COVET
34
"Forsyte Saga" heroine. : FLEUR
35
Card game. : GIN
36
Finished. : OVER
37
Cheers. : HAILS
38
Propensity. : BENT
39
Through. : PER
40
Conveniently near. : HANDY
41
Extent. : RANGE
42
Alienate. : ESTRANGE
44
Bird dog. : SETTER
45
Energy unit. : ERG
46
Shoo! : SCAT
47
Home of Lion rooters. : COLUMBIACOLLEGE
55
Alack! : ALAS
56
One on the side lines. : IDLER
57
Badness. : EVIL
58
Glaze. : SIZE
59
Queen: French. : REINE
60
Mohammed ___ Pahlavi. : RIZA
61
Parts of boots. : TOES
62
Had a social appointment with. : DATED
63
O'Kelly of Eire. : SEAN
Down
1
Young seals. : PUPS
2
On. : ATOP
3
St. Paul. : SAUL
4
More high-pitched. : SHRILLER
5
Writing surfaces. : SLATES
6
Parts of garments. : CUFFS
7
Numerical prefix. : OCTO
8
Row. : TIER
9
Boundary post. : TERMINUS
10
Early Christian. : MARTYR
11
Turkish regiment. : ALAI
12
Not possible. : NOGO
13
Type of golf tournament. : OPEN
21
Slant. : TILT
22
Avouch. : AVER
25
Extent. : SCOPE
26
Jabberwocky word. : TOVES
27
Forestall. : AVERT
28
Volplane. : GLIDE
29
Wiggly. : EELY
30
Broker. : AGENT
31
Slight trace. : TINGE
32
Register. : ENTER
34
Tusk. : FANG
37
Baltimore oriole. : HANGBIRD
38
Fighters. : BATTLERS
40
Damage. : HARM
41
True. : REAL
43
Puts in play again. : REUSES
44
Crossed the goal line. : SCORED
46
Spectacle. : SCENE
47
Appearance. : CAST
48
Salmagundi. : OLIO
49
Take one's ease. : LAZE
50
Concept. : IDEA
51
Dismounted. : ALIT
52
Diminutive of a girl's name. : EVIE
53
Site of pyramids and Sphinx. : GIZA
54
Verve. : ELAN
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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