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A. H. Drummond, Jr.
New York Times, Thursday, February 28, 1957
26-Across : Scottish county.
Author:
A. H. Drummond, Jr.
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
A. H. Drummond, Jr. has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 D | 2 A | 3 U | 4 N | 5 T | 6 E | 7 L | 8 M | 9 S | 10 F | 11 L | 12 A | 13 K |
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14 A | B | N | E | R | 15 L | O | O | T | 16 L | I | S | A |
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17 W | A | I | T | I | 18 N | G | F | O | R | 19 L | E | F | T | Y |
20 E | S | T | 21 P | E | A | T | 22 A | U | N | T | I | E |
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23 S | H | E | 24 L | T | E | R | 25 M | I | S | S | ||||
26 A | Y | R | 27 L | A | T | H | E | 28 R | 29 E | 30 D |
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31 M | 32 E | 33 D | O | C | 34 B | O | R | E | 35 R | A | R | E |
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36 O | C | A | 37 H | 38 E | R | O | I | N | 39 E | 40 A | L | L |
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41 B | R | I | 42 G | 43 V | A | S | E | 44 N | 45 O | B | E | L |
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46 Y | U | L | E | 47 T | I | D | E | 48 E | D | W | ||||
49 L | A | D | Y | 50 S | W | A | N | 51 S | 52 E | 53 A |
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54 O | 55 N | 56 S | A | L | E | 57 A | M | E | N | 58 O | P | S |
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59 W | A | I | T | I | N | 60 G | F | O | R | G | 61 O | D | O | T |
62 L | U | D | I | 63 C | O | A | T | 64 E | V | A | D | E |
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65 S | T | E | N | 66 E | T | R | E | 67 R | I | S | E | R |
© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 2,802
Across
1
Intimidate. : DAUNT
6
Trees. : ELMS
10
A. A. fire. : FLAK
14
Baseball's Mr. Doubleday. : ABNER
15
Despoil. : LOOT
16
Songstress Kirk. : LISA
17
Clifford Odets play. : WAITINGFORLEFTY
20
Common suffix. : EST
21
Fuel. : PEAT
22
Broadway relative. : AUNTIE
23
C. D. sign. : SHELTER
25
Want. : MISS
26
Scottish county. : AYR
27
Ready to shave. : LATHERED
31
Red wine. : MEDOC
34
Hollow part of a pipe. : BORE
35
Epithet for Ben Jonson. : RARE
36
S. Amer. tuber. : OCA
37
Girl in a novel. : HEROINE
40
Apiece. : ALL
41
Two-masted vessel. : BRIG
43
Jardiniere. : VASE
44
Institute in Stockholm. : NOBEL
46
Happy season. : YULETIDE
48
Man's name: Abbr. : EDW
49
Broadway 37 Across. : LADY
50
Seaport of Wales. : SWANSEA
54
Offered for purchase. : ONSALE
57
Word in a hymn. : AMEN
58
Harvest goddess. : OPS
59
Samuel Beckett play. : WAITINGFORGODOT
62
Public games of ancient Rome. : LUDI
63
Mackintosh. : COAT
64
Get out of. : EVADE
65
8-lb. machine gun. : STEN
66
To be: Fr. : ETRE
67
Stairway piece. : RISER
Down
1
V. P., 1925-29. : DAWES
2
Disconcert. : ABASH
3
Weld. : UNITE
4
Tennis gear. : NET
5
Three-part art work. : TRIPTYCH
6
English composer. : ELGAR
7
Golf stroke. : LOFT
8
Animal sound. : MOO
9
Contract. : STRAITEN
10
Whaling V. I. P. : FLENSER
11
Help. : LIFT
12
Italian city. : ASTI
13
Well-known comedian. : KAYE
18
___-do-well. : NEER
19
Luxuriant. : LUSH
24
Certain Thai. : LAO
25
Mme. de Sévigné. : MARIE
27
Let fly. : LOOSE
28
Vienna V. I .P. : RAAB
29
One of the Gardners. : ERLE
30
Dingle. : DELL
31
Dick, the cetacean. : MOBY
32
Beige. : ECRU
33
Dublin group. : DAIL
34
Photographer of the Civil War. : BRADY
38
Show. : EVIDENCE
39
Imperil. : ENDANGER
42
Common food. : GELATIN
45
Admit. : OWN
47
Ankle bones. : TALI
48
Pitcher. : EWER
50
Struck. : SMOTE
51
Ice cream ___. : SODAS
52
Form of lyric verse. : EPODE
53
Flower. : ASTER
54
Persons of solemn mien. : OWLS
55
Of ships: Abbr. : NAUT
56
Slope of a hill. : SIDE
57
___ cry. : AFAR
60
Brought. : GOT
61
Egg: Comb. form. : OVI
Answer summary:
4 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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