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Arthur Schulman
New York Times, Thursday, December 14, 1967
5-Across : Spring events.
Author:
Arthur Schulman
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F Q Z }, Scrabble score: 322 (avg 1.69)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Arthur Schulman has 80 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
1 B | 2 A | 3 N | 4 G | 5 T | 6 H | 7 A | 8 W | 9 S | 10 A | 11 M | 12 E | 13 S |
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14 O | G | E | E | 15 R | A | B | A | T | 16 B | A | D | E |
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17 L | A | W | N | 18 A | L | E | X | A | 19 N | D | R | I | A |
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20 D | R | J | E | 21 K | Y | L | L | 22 T | A | I | N | T | S |
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23 E | V | A | N | S | 24 P | I | S | C | E | S | ||||
25 S | 26 T | R | A | B | O | 27 A | L | O | H | A | ||||
28 A | U | S | 29 U | R | 30 C | H | I | N | 31 T | 32 E | 33 A | 34 L |
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35 C | R | E | 36 E | L | 37 H | E | N | 38 S | E | C | T | Y |
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39 O | N | Y | X | 40 C | L | A | Y | 41 E | Y | 42 D | E | N |
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43 H | 44 E | R | O | D | 45 X | R | 46 A | Y | E | D |
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47 R | 48 A | I | D | E | R | 49 S | P | U | R | S | ||||
50 H | O | T | B | E | D | 51 P | O | R | P | O | I | 52 S | 53 E |
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54 U | M | B | I | L | I | 55 C | A | T | E | 56 M | A | I | L |
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57 S | E | A | T | 58 T | I | R | O | S | 59 A | S | T | O |
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60 H | O | Y | S | 61 S | E | A | L | S | 62 S | T | U | N |
© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,697
Across
1
Thrill: Slang. : BANG
5
Spring events. : THAWS
10
College town in the Midwest. : AMES
14
Molding. : OGEE
15
Moroccan port. : RABAT
16
Commanded. : BADE
17
Sheer fabric. : LAWN
18
City on the Mediterranean. : ALEXANDRIA
20
Creation of RLS. : DRJEKYLL
22
Makes impure. : TAINTS
23
Dame Edith. : EVANS
24
Zodiacal sign. : PISCES
25
Greek geographer of two millennia ago. : STRABO
27
Greeting or farewell. : ALOHA
28
From, in Bonn. : AUS
29
Child. : URCHIN
31
River duck. : TEAL
35
Fisherman's basket. : CREEL
37
Cackler. : HEN
38
Office worker: Abbr. : SECTY
39
Variety of agate. : ONYX
40
Like some soils. : CLAYEY
42
Home room. : DEN
43
Contemporary of 25 Across, in Judea. : HEROD
45
Took a kind of picture. : XRAYED
47
Icebox invader. : RAIDER
49
Mountain ridges. : SPURS
50
Place of rapid growth. : HOTBED
51
Intelligent mammal. : PORPOISE
54
Like all men. : UMBILICATE
56
Medieval coat. : MAIL
57
Ottoman. : SEAT
58
One of the satellites. : TIROS
59
With regard for. : ASTO
60
Large barges. : HOYS
61
Zoo favorites. : SEALS
62
Confound. : STUN
Down
1
Intrepid. : BOLD
2
Product of seaweed. : AGAR
3
"What did Della wear?" : NEWJERSEY
4
Conference site. : GENEVA
5
Pie of baseball's Hall of Fame. : TRAYNOR
6
Montezuma had them, apparently. : HALLS
7
Son of Eve. : ABEL
8
Grow. : WAX
9
Pennsylvania, for one. : STATION
10
Renounce responsibility. : ABDICATE
11
Seine tributary. : MARNE
12
Corrects copy. : EDITS
13
Azov and others. : SEAS
19
American poet. : NASH
21
Capital of Afghanistan. : KABUL
24
Roman naturalist. : PLINY
25
Town in Maine. : SACO
26
Opportunity. : TURN
27
Leading. : AHEAD
30
Green: Prefix. : CHLOR
32
Stripteaser. : ECDYSIAST
33
To ___ (exactly). : ATEE
34
Author of "Middletown." : LYND
36
Shows. : EXHIBITS
38
Pancake topping. : SYRUP
40
Believes. : CREDITS
41
Say. : EXPRESS
44
Noble: Ger. : EDEL
46
Fragrances. : AROMAS
47
Lover. : ROMEO
48
Held off. : ATBAY
49
Desert plant. : SOTOL
50
Lullaby word. : HUSH
51
Prefix with graph or site. : PARA
52
In ___. : SITU
53
N. C. college. : ELON
55
French co. : CIE
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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