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Virginia Butler
New York Times, Wednesday, October 22, 1975
29-Across : Cream-cheese holder
Author:
Virginia Butler
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Virginia Butler has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 P | 3 A | 4 S | 5 M | 6 D | 7 A | 8 T | 9 E | 10 S | 11 E | 12 N | 13 T |
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14 T | U | L | L | E | 15 E | V | I | L | 16 A | N | E | R |
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17 O | R | B | I | T | 18 B | E | M | Y | 19 J | U | D | G | E |
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20 P | R | E | M | A | 21 T | U | R | E | 22 E | N | U | R | E |
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23 M | I | G | S | 24 O | K | A | P | I | S |
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25 F | 26 E | 27 L | O | N | S | 28 A | N | Y | ||||||
29 C | E | L | E | R | Y | 30 S | P | I | L | 31 L | 32 A | 33 G | 34 E |
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35 O | R | L | O | P | 36 R | A | T | 37 L | O | N | E | R |
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38 G | N | A | S | H | 39 I | N | G | 40 L | A | C | I | N | G |
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41 O | S | S | 42 R | A | N | K | L | E | ||||||
43 A | 44 R | 45 T | 46 I | S | T | 47 M | A | I | D | |||||
48 S | E | I | N | E | 49 L | U | N | C | H | 50 T | 51 I | 52 M | 53 E |
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54 C | A | R | E | S | 55 S | I | N | G | 56 Y | O | R | E | S |
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57 A | T | O | P | 58 E | D | G | E | 59 D | R | A | T | S |
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60 P | A | S | T | 61 D | O | O | R | 62 E | N | N | E | A |
© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,566
Across
1
Sudden effort : SPASM
6
Rendezvous : DATE
10
Delivered : SENT
14
Dress material : TULLE
15
Satanic : EVIL
16
Ally of Abraham : ANER
17
Range of activities : ORBIT
18
"You shall not ___": Henry VIII : BEMYJUDGE
20
Too early : PREMATURE
22
Habituate : ENURE
23
Russian planes : MIGS
24
African animals : OKAPIS
25
Criminals : FELONS
28
Some : ANY
29
Cream-cheese holder : CELERY
30
Overflow : SPILLAGE
35
Ship's deck : ORLOP
36
Betrayer : RAT
37
Individualist : LONER
38
Grinding : GNASHING
40
Trouncing : LACING
41
W. W. II group : OSS
42
Irritate : RANKLE
43
Performer : ARTIST
47
Bit part in a play : MAID
48
Net : SEINE
49
Noon : LUNCHTIME
54
Treating with kindness : CARESSING
56
Times of old : YORES
57
Over : ATOP
58
"___ of Night" : EDGE
59
Mild oaths : DRATS
60
Gone : PAST
61
Open ___ : DOOR
62
Nine: Prefix : ENNEA
Down
1
Baffle : STOP
2
Murmur : PURR
3
Old Roman tablet : ALBE
4
Slender : SLIM
5
Complete changes : METAMORPHOSES
6
Eliminates errors : DEBUGS
7
Declares : AVERS
8
Pub call : TIME
9
Isle of ___ : ELY
10
Steam bath : SAUNA
11
"This ___" (sign on a crate) : ENDUP
12
Pola of silents : NEGRI
13
Apple and shoe : TREES
19
Having a split personality : JEKYLLANDHYDE
21
"___ Alice" : TINY
24
Navy Dept. branch : ONI
25
Parlor plant : FERN
26
Fitzgerald : ELLA
27
Durocher et al. : LEOS
28
Likely : APT
29
Key underling : COG
30
Droop : SAG
31
Kind of step or out : LOCK
32
Blue dye : ANIL
33
Kelly : GENE
34
Work unit : ERG
36
Hospital people: Abbr. : RNS
39
Devotee: Suffix : IST
40
Secular : LAIC
42
Forest or Lone : RANGER
43
Broadway org. : ASCAP
44
Lariat : REATA
45
Weather satellite : TIROS
46
Gauche : INEPT
47
Reclaimed wool : MUNGO
49
Italian resort : LIDO
50
Rip ___ : TORN
51
Mideast land : IRAN
52
Boundary : METE
53
She, in Naples : ESSA
55
But: Lat. : SED
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 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.