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Arthur Schulman
New York Times, Tuesday, December 26, 1961
42-Across : Jimmy Valentine, for one.
Author:
Arthur Schulman
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F Q V X }, Scrabble score: 334 (avg 1.77)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Arthur Schulman has 80 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
1 B | 2 R | 3 A | 4 N | 5 M | 6 C | 7 K | 8 A | 9 Y | 10 A | 11 N | 12 E | 13 W |
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14 R | I | C | E | 15 A | L | I | C | E | 16 B | A | C | H |
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17 U | C | L | A | 18 G | A | M | E | S | 19 E | Z | R | A |
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20 T | H | U | R | 21 B | E | R | 22 Y | T | 23 T | R | I | U | M |
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24 B | U | L | K | 25 D | E | A | D | |||||||
26 J | 27 E | 28 K | Y | L | L | 29 H | E | R | M | E | 30 T | 31 I | 32 C |
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33 A | B | A | 34 B | A | 35 Y | O | U | 36 P | E | R | D | U |
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37 L | O | N | 38 S | 39 N | A | N | C | 40 Y | 41 N | E | E | R |
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42 A | L | I | A | 43 S | 44 R | E | Y | E | 45 S | 46 A | A | R |
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47 P | I | N | K | L | 48 A | D | Y | 49 M | O | 50 S | T | L | Y |
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51 H | A | L | S | 52 C | E | B | U | |||||||
53 P | 54 I | 55 T | A | P | A | T | 56 O | N | S | T | 57 A | 58 G | 59 E |
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60 H | A | U | L | 61 M | I | 62 A | M | I | 63 U | G | L | Y |
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64 I | G | N | I | 65 O | C | T | E | T | 66 R | O | U | E |
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67 L | O | A | N | 68 S | K | A | T | E | 69 E | G | G | S |
© 1961, The New York TimesNo. 4,547
Across
1
Breakfast food. : BRAN
5
Member of DDE cabinet. : MCKAY
10
Freshly. : ANEW
14
Companion of old shoes. : RICE
15
Carroll heroine. : ALICE
16
Cantata composer. : BACH
17
Western campus. : UCLA
18
Bridge and go. : GAMES
19
Hebrew scribe. : EZRA
20
Author of "The White Deer." : THURBER
22
Rare element. : YTTRIUM
24
Greater part. : BULK
25
Obsolete. : DEAD
26
RLS creation. : JEKYLL
29
Airtight. : HERMETIC
33
Camel's hair fabric. : ABA
34
Lower Mississippi scene. : BAYOU
36
Out of sight. : PERDU
37
Chaney and namesakes. : LONS
39
City in NE France. : NANCY
41
Poetic adverb. : NEER
42
Jimmy Valentine, for one. : ALIAS
44
Spanish kings. : REYES
46
Swiss river. : AAR
47
Cocktail of the speakeasy era. : PINKLADY
49
In large part. : MOSTLY
51
Flemish painter. : HALS
52
Island near Leyte. : CEBU
53
Palpitation. : PITAPAT
56
Acting. : ONSTAGE
60
Tug. : HAUL
61
City on Biscayne Bay. : MIAMI
63
Ominous. : UGLY
64
Fire: Prefix. : IGNI
65
Chamber music group. : OCTET
66
Rake. : ROUE
67
Something lent. : LOAN
68
Relative of the Nautilus. : SKATE
69
Caviar. : EGGS
Down
1
Dry, as wines. : BRUT
2
Luxurious. : RICH
3
Civil liberties group. : ACLU
4
At hand. : NEARBY
5
Navigator of 1500 A. D. : MAGELLAN
6
American explorer. : CLARK
7
Novel of Indian life. : KIM
8
Game like backgammon. : ACEYDEUCY
9
Before today: Prefix. : YESTER
10
City on the North Sea. : ABERDEEN
11
Fascist. : NAZI
12
Beige. : ECRU
13
Slamming sound. : WHAM
21
Source of light. : BULB
23
Pack down. : TAMP
26
Mexican plant. : JALAP
27
Italian town. : EBOLI
28
American playwright. : KANIN
29
Sweetening. : HONEY
30
A delight. : TREAT
31
Most perfect. : IDEAL
32
Indian condiment. : CURRY
35
Standard. : YARDSTICK
38
Island N of Japan. : SAKHALIN
40
Arab. : YEMENITE
43
Smack. : SLAP
45
Mournful sounds. : SOBS
48
Los ___. : ALAMOS
50
Line of junction: Anat. : SUTURE
52
Heavenly body. : COMET
53
Loving: Prefix. : PHIL
54
Emilia's spouse. : IAGO
55
Bluefin. : TUNA
57
In a dither. : AGOG
58
Gurgling sound. : GLUG
59
Watches. : EYES
62
One ___ time. : ATA
Answer summary:
5 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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