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William F. Bulow
William F. Bulow

New York Times, Friday, December 21, 1962

31-Across : Insolent answer.

Author:
William F. Bulow
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5 Grid has duplicate clues.
William F. Bulow has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Clues for 40-Across and 52-Across were missing close quotes. Added them. Also, there was no clue for 32-Down (WORSE), so put one in ("Not as good.").

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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,906
Across
1
Where Snowdon is. : WALES
6
Further. : ALSO
10
Famous street. : WALL
14
Old-womanish. : ANILE
15
Condemn. : DOOM
16
Jai ___. : ALAI
17
Hobbyists or housewives. : STAMPCOLLECTORS
20
Omar's land. : PERSIA
21
What hydrogen is. : LIGHTEST
22
Likely. : APT
24
Women's group. : DAR
25
Bird: Lat. : AVIS
29
Caribbean export. : RUM
31
Insolent answer. : SOWHAT
36
White House name. : CAROLINE
38
Part of a river. : MOUTH
39
Former Italian queen. : ELENA
40
"Ite, missa, ___." : EST
42
Baseball term. : ERROR
43
Mysterious. : RUNIC
44
Generous. : HANDSOME
46
Lighthouse. : BEACON
48
"___, hoo!" : YOO
49
Else, in Scotland. : ENSE
50
Drench. : SOP
52
"___ loves me ... " : SHE
54
Excursion. : SIDETRIP
59
Youth's goals. : IDEALS
64
Wall Street item. : MARKETQUOTATION
66
Molding. : OGEE
67
Seaport of England. : HULL
68
Fabulous capital of El Dorado. : MANOA
69
Olympians. : GODS
70
___ pearl. : SEED
71
Drop heavily. : SLUMP
Down
1
Irritating one. : WASP
2
Penny ___. : ANTE
3
Prevaricator. : LIAR
4
New England features. : ELMS
5
Color. : SEPIA
6
Fuss. : ADO
7
Lounge. : LOLL
8
Type of geometry. : SOLID
9
Greek letters. : OMEGAS
10
Light bulb rating. : WATT
11
Medicinal plant. : ALOE
12
Etruscan title. : LARS
13
Shopper's agenda. : LIST
18
Bay of Naples isle. : CAPRI
19
Plated. : CHROMED
23
Carol. : TUNE
25
Bitter. : ACERB
26
Worth. : VALUE
27
Spenser's Ireland. : IRENA
28
___ boom. : SONIC
30
Netted. : MESHY
32
Not as good. : WORSE
33
Canadian Indian. : HURON
34
___ for Peace. : ATOMS
35
Trinity. : THREE
37
Famous name in tennis. : LACOSTE
41
New Mexican Indian. : TAOS
45
Baseball term. : NOHIT
47
Famous Mr. and Mrs. : NORTHS
51
Popular fabric. : PIQUE
53
Cheeses. : EDAMS
54
Weather word. : SMOG
55
Classic villain. : IAGO
56
___ Scott decision. : DRED
57
Pieces (out). : EKES
58
Whimper. : PULE
60
Useful Latin abbreviation. : ETAL
61
Japanese aborigine. : AINU
62
Art of weaving. : LOOM
63
Photo. : SNAP
65
Venerable. : OLD

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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