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Marian Moeser
Marian Moeser

New York Times, Saturday, December 4, 1954

33-Across : Fireplace.

Author:
Marian Moeser
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
Marian Moeser has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,985
Across
1
Ziegfeld and others. : FLOS
5
Partial erasure. : SMEAR
10
"To me he is so wonderful." : PAPA
14
Lost in thought. : RAPT
15
Try the temper of. : TEASE
16
Patriarchal. : AGED
17
Highway bridges. : OVERPASSES
19
Pitch. : TONE
20
Bone marrows: Anat. : MEDULLAE
21
Sets in order. : ALIGNS
23
Audacity: Colloq. : GALL
24
Novelist Phillpotts. : EDEN
25
Historic American waterway. : LONGISLANDSOUND
32
Somewhat off vertical position. : ATILT
33
Fireplace. : INGLE
34
___ generis (unique): Lat. : SUI
35
Baked shell. : CONE
36
Title of a queen. : RANEE
37
Detected. : SEEN
38
Friend: Dial. : EME
39
Old Nigerian slave town. : BENIN
40
Caterpillar or grub. : LARVA
41
Casualty of war. : DISPLACEDPERSON
44
Custom. : RULE
45
Times past. : ERAS
46
Jungle journey. : SAFARI
49
Region around Marseilles. : PROVENCE
53
Admit frankly. : AVOW
54
Pen wielders. : SCRIVENERS
56
"That orbed maiden ... " : MOON
57
Possessive pronoun. : THINE
58
Harrow's rival. : ETON
59
Tips. : ENDS
60
Vocal college gatherings. : SINGS
61
Minnesota Senator. : THYE
Down
1
Out of. : FROM
2
Flow along. : LAVE
3
Unclosed: Poet. : OPED
4
Contest. : STRUGGLE
5
Front seats in British theatres. : STALLS
6
Unfavored combination. : MESALLIANCE
7
Freedom. : EASE
8
Chemist's suffix. : ASE
9
Prepare mount again. : RESADDLE
10
Latin-American mine owner. : PATINO
11
Excited. : AGOG
12
Franklin Field team. : PENN
13
Noun suffixes. : ADES
18
Last word of R.S.V.P. : PLAIT
22
___-majesté. : LESE
24
Setting in motion. : ENGENDERING
25
Streaked. : LACED
26
Mexican Indian. : OTOMI
27
Giants and Indians. : NINES
28
Scottish song heroine. : ANNIE
29
Consumers. : USERS
30
New: Spanish. : NUEVO
31
Town in Brittany. : DINAN
36
School of writers. : REALISTS
37
Silk fabric. : SARSENET
39
Relative of 5 Across. : BLUR
40
Army vacation. : LEAVE
42
Shrimplike crustaceans. : PRAWNS
43
Verifies. : PROVES
46
Unchanged. : SAME
47
Celtic word for river. : AVON
48
Gayelord Hauser's subject. : FOOD
49
School head: Abbr. : PRIN
50
Member of Benelux: Abbr. : NETH
51
Novelist Homer ___. : CROY
52
Old English slave. : ESNE
55
Greek letter. : CHI

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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