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A. H. Drummond, Jr.
New York Times, Tuesday, February 3, 1959
40-Across : Rife.
Author:
A. H. Drummond, Jr.
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
A. H. Drummond, Jr. has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 M | 2 A | 3 T | 4 T | 5 O | 6 S | 7 L | 8 U | 9 E | 10 D | 11 M | 12 A | 13 P |
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14 A | R | C | E | D | 15 P | I | N | T | A | 16 O | N | A |
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17 B | R | U | C | E | 18 C | A | T | T | O | N | 19 D | E | R |
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20 S | T | A | R | T | I | N | 21 F | E | A | T |
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22 C | 23 F | 24 S | 25 S | P | E | L | L | 26 P | A | R | R | Y |
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27 H | I | T | 28 S | 29 E | T | E | 30 G | U | N | N | ||||
31 A | L | O | H | 32 A | 33 I | R | 34 R | I | G | A | T | 35 E | 36 S |
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37 M | A | N | O | W | 38 A | R | 39 O | N | E | T | I | M | E |
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40 P | R | E | V | A | L | E | 41 N | T | 42 T | I | M | I | D |
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43 S | E | R | B | 44 A | T | 45 S | 46 C | E | L | A |
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47 T | 48 I | T | L | E | 49 T | R | E | A | 50 T | 51 S | E | N |
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52 O | C | H | S | 53 C | O | R | N | F | E | 54 D | ||||
55 P | H | R | 56 S | O | L | A | R | E | N | E | 57 R | 58 G | 59 Y |
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60 I | N | O | 61 P | L | A | T | O | 62 S | C | E | N | E |
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63 C | O | W | 64 R | E | N | E | W | 65 E | A | T | U | P |
© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,490
Across
1
___ Grosso, state in Brazil. : MATTO
6
Swung around a pivot. : SLUED
11
Put on the ___ (make well known). : MAP
14
Bowed. : ARCED
15
Pinzón's command, 1492. : PINTA
16
"___ Sunday afternoon ... " : ONA
17
Pulitzer prize historian. : BRUCECATTON
19
The: Ger. : DER
20
Begin. : STARTIN
21
Exploit. : FEAT
22
Baseball players: Abbr. : CFS
25
Period of duty. : SPELL
26
Deflect. : PARRY
27
Bull's-eyes. : HITS
29
Summer: Fr. : ETE
30
"Treasure Island" character. : GUNN
31
Love, in Hawaii. : ALOHA
33
Waters. : IRRIGATES
37
Famous race horse. : MANOWAR
39
Former. : ONETIME
40
Rife. : PREVALENT
42
Hesitant. : TIMID
43
Native of Belgrade. : SERB
44
Military transport groups: Abbr. : ATS
46
That: Fr. : CELA
47
Mr. or Mrs. : TITLE
49
Negotiate. : TREAT
51
Coin of Japan. : SEN
52
Notable name in journalism. : OCHS
53
Plump: Colloq. : CORNFED
55
Word group: Abbr. : PHR
56
Modern source of power. : SOLARENERGY
60
Daughter of Cadmus. : INO
61
Disciple of Socrates. : PLATO
62
Exhibition of strong feeling. : SCENE
63
Lunar probe of nursery jingle. : COW
64
Begin again. : RENEW
65
Consume completely. : EATUP
Down
1
Fairy queen. : MAB
2
Train time: Abbr. : ARR
3
Fort Worth school. : TCU
4
Plain-clothes men: Slang. : TECS
5
"Awake and Sing" author. : ODETS
6
Car necessity. : SPARETIRE
7
Well-known golfer. : LITTLER
8
To the point that. : UNTIL
9
Town on the Thames. : ETON
10
McGrew. : DAN
11
Charlie Chaplin movie. : MODERNTIMES
12
Close: Poetic. : ANEAR
13
A kind of politics. : PARTY
18
Promontory. : CAPE
21
Excessively enthusiastic. : FANATIC
22
Bite and chew noisily. : CHAMP
23
Of a thread. : FILAR
24
Short distance. : STONESTHROW
26
Tacoma's sound. : PUGET
28
Spades. : SHOVELS
30
Cotton __. : GIN
32
Conscious. : AWARE
34
Part of London's Hyde Park. : ROTTENROW
35
Rousseau's child hero. : EMILE
36
Automobile. : SEDAN
38
White vestment. : ALB
41
Tell. : NARRATE
45
Vault. : SAFE
47
Subject. : TOPIC
48
Footprint: Comb. form. : ICHNO
49
Hydrocarbon. : TOLAN
50
Taut. : TENSE
53
___ Porter. : COLE
54
Ten: Comb. form. : DECA
56
Psychical research group: Abbr. : SPR
57
Inactive: Abbr. : RET
58
Eland's relative. : GNU
59
Slangy affirmative. : YEP
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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