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A. J. Santora
New York Times, Saturday, December 29, 1962
21-Across : Charlotte ___, Virgin Islands capital.
Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { G J V X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Grid has duplicate clues.
A. J. Santora has 185 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 68 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 P | 2 A | 3 P | 4 A | 5 W | 6 C | 7 A | 8 P | 9 T | 10 P | 11 A | 12 C | 13 A |
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14 A | M | I | S | H | 15 O | L | E | O | 16 R | E | S | I | N |
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17 R | U | N | T | O | 18 A | I | R | M | E | D | A | L | S |
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19 C | R | E | O | S | 20 O | T | E | 21 A | M | A | L | I | E |
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22 T | R | A | P | 23 N | 24 E | T | 25 L | E | A | R |
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26 S | 27 H | R | I | F | T | 28 N | O | 29 P | E | |||||
30 A | Y | E | A | R | 31 A | 32 S | C | E | N | D | 33 A | 34 N | 35 T |
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36 I | D | E | 37 A | 38 S | P | E | R | S | E | 39 S | A | W |
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40 D | E | S | 41 T | I | T | U | T | E | 42 U | 43 L | T | R | A |
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44 E | D | E | R | 45 S | M | I | R | K | S |
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46 A | 47 N | 48 O | A | 49 R | E | 50 F | 51 B | A | M | A | ||||
52 T | O | R | T | 53 E | N | 54 L | 55 E | E | T | I | D | 56 E | 57 S |
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58 Q | U | A | R | T | E | 59 R | E | D | 60 I | N | D | R | E |
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61 U | N | L | E | A | S | H | E | D | 62 C | A | L | L | A |
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63 E | S | S | E | 64 T | O | R | Y | 65 S | L | E | E | T |
© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,913
Across
1
Banana's relative. : PAPAW
6
Army man: Abbr. : CAPT
10
Rodent akin to the agouti. : PACA
14
Mennonite. : AMISH
15
Essential oil. : OLEORESIN
17
___ earth (track down). : RUNTO
18
D. F. C.'s. : AIRMEDALS
19
Wood preserver. : CREOSOTE
21
Charlotte ___, Virgin Islands capital. : AMALIE
22
Snare. : TRAP
23
Snare. : NET
25
Role for a tragedian. : LEAR
26
Short ___ (quick work). : SHRIFT
28
Informal negative. : NOPE
30
"They sailed away for ___ and a day ... " : AYEAR
31
Rising. : ASCENDANT
36
Food fish. : IDE
37
Slander. : ASPERSE
39
Crosscut. : SAW
40
Showing no vestige of. : DESTITUTE
42
Extreme. : ULTRA
44
River into the Fulda. : EDER
45
Conceited smiles. : SMIRKS
46
Celebes ox. : ANOA
49
Ump's colleague. : REF
51
The "Crimson Tide," for short. : BAMA
52
Rich cakes. : TORTEN
54
Ocean phenomena. : LEETIDES
58
Housed. : QUARTERED
60
River into the Loire. : INDRE
61
Set free. : UNLEASHED
62
Lily. : CALLA
63
In ___. : ESSE
64
Reactionary. : TORY
65
Winter fallout. : SLEET
Down
1
Public area in France. : PARC
2
Great river of Asia. : AMUR
3
The Maine woods. : PINETREES
4
City in Oregon. : ASTORIA
5
Part of a hit-play title. : WHOSAFRAID
6
Ulster. : COAT
7
Opposed (to). : ALIEN
8
Through. : PER
9
Grocery item. : TOMATOES
10
Soft- ___ (toned down). : PEDALED
11
At auction. : ASALE
12
Eyelashes. : CILIA
13
Goose genus. : ANSER
16
Ad or in ___. : REM
20
Choose. : OPT
24
Ink, in France. : ENCRE
26
Already spoken of. : SAID
27
Stevenson character. : HYDE
29
Branch of physics. : PNEUMATICS
31
River into the Orinoco. : APURE
32
Headstrong. : SET
33
Mounted. : ASTRADDLE
34
Informer: Slang. : NARK
35
Poetic contraction. : TWAS
38
Most unrelenting. : STERNEST
41
Valuable plant of the Orient. : TEATREE
43
At the threshhold. : LIMINAL
45
Compass point. : SBE
46
And, in Latin. : ATQUE
47
Some words. : NOUNS
48
Some exams. : ORALS
50
Mock. : FLEER
53
Zeta's follower. : ETA
55
Whirl. : EDDY
56
A Gardner. : ERLE
57
Subway problem. : SEAT
59
Pi's follower. : RHO
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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