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James E. Hinish Jr.
New York Times, Wednesday, February 6, 1963
56-Across : Language: Abbr.
Author:
James E. Hinish, Jr.
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.29, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Grid has duplicate clues.
James E. Hinish Jr. has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
James E. Hinish, Jr. is an alias for James E. Hinish Jr..
1 D | 2 A | 3 K | 4 S | 5 O | 6 V | 7 S | 8 P | 9 A | 10 C | 11 T | 12 A |
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13 I | S | R | 14 I | D | E | A | 15 A | L | O | I | S |
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16 E | C | O | 17 N | 18 O | M | I | S | T | 19 L | A | N | D | S |
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20 M | A | N | U | F | A | C | T | U | 21 R | E | R | S | ||
22 P | A | R | E | R | 23 E | R | A | S | M | U | 24 S | |||
25 S | D | S | 26 D | A | R | T | 27 M | I | 28 V |
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29 T | 30 E | 31 P | E | E | 32 C | I | T | E | 33 C | E | N | E |
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34 A | D | O | R | N | 35 E | N | E | 36 F | A | R | C | E |
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37 M | I | R | Y | 38 G | A | T | S | 39 A | N | S | E | R |
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40 O | T | T | 41 H | O | S | E | 42 A | R | T | |||||
43 H | A | 44 N | O | V | E | R | 45 T | R | A | 46 S | 47 H | |||
48 B | A | T | T | L | E | 49 S | T | A | T | I | O | 50 N |
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51 A | 52 D | L | I | B | 53 E | S | P | E | R | A | N | T | O |
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54 R | E | E | V | E | 55 S | T | A | S | 56 G | E | R |
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57 C | A | S | E | D | 58 S | S | S | T | 59 E | L | M |
© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 4,946
Across
1
The mail, in India. : DAK
4
Pounds, for short. : SOVS
8
Agreements, in ancient Rome. : PACTA
13
Asian land: Abbr. : ISR
14
Conception. : IDEA
15
Name akin to Louis. : ALOIS
16
Galbraith's calling. : ECONOMIST
19
Attains: Colloq. : LANDS
20
Certain business men. : MANUFACTURERS
22
Kitchen device. : PARER
23
Renaissance humanist. : ERASMUS
25
Puget and others: Abbr. : SDS
26
Missile. : DART
27
Year in the 11th century. : MIV
29
Type of dwelling. : TEPEE
32
Refer to. : CITE
33
Recent: Suffix. : CENE
34
Embellish. : ADORN
35
Suffix in chemistry. : ENE
36
Type of comedy. : FARCE
37
Muddy. : MIRY
38
Ship channels. : GATS
39
Goose genus. : ANSER
40
Baseball great. : OTT
41
Gardener's gear. : HOSE
42
Poetic verb form. : ART
43
German city. : HANOVER
45
Nonsense. : TRASH
48
Position for action. : BATTLESTATION
51
Comedian's line. : ADLIB
53
Artificial language. : ESPERANTO
54
Canadian official. : REEVE
55
Terminals: Abbr. : STAS
56
Language: Abbr. : GER
57
Looked over: Slang. : CASED
58
Intensified sibilant sound. : SSST
59
Street name in New England. : ELM
Down
1
Per ___. : DIEM
2
Tin-pan Alley group. : ASCAP
3
Coin of Sweden. : KRONA
4
Old-time robes for women. : SIMARS
5
Of a poem. : ODIC
6
Bankers' concern. : VESTEDINTERESTS
7
Loads to capacity. : SATURATES
8
Dimmest. : PALEST
9
Rouse to action. : ALARM
10
Target of 20 Across. : CONSUMERS
11
Thrice a day: Lat. abbr. : TID
12
Quadruped. : ASS
17
Room of a sort. : NURSERY
18
"East ___." : OFEDEN
21
Distinctive. : RARE
24
In as much as. : SINCE
28
Shift. : VEER
29
___ shanter. : TAMO
30
Nurse Cavell. : EDITH
31
Certain radios. : PORTABLES
32
Interminable. : CEASELESS
33
Musical offering. : CANTATA
36
Famous soprano. : FARRAR
38
Polit. sci. : GOVT
41
Growth environment. : HOTBED
42
Certify. : ATTEST
44
Artless. : NAIVE
46
Scorch. : SINGE
47
Type of dwelling. : HOTEL
49
Warm and Hot Springs. : SPAS
50
Standard. : NORM
51
Curve. : ARC
52
Roman goddess. : DEA
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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