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George Henderson
George Henderson

New York Times, Friday, March 13, 1953

57-Across : Martha of the movies.

Author:
George Henderson
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
George Henderson has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,363
Across
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Beer containers. : KEGS
5
Quiver. : SHAKE
10
Barge. : SCOW
14
A kind of newspaper item. : OBIT
15
New York Congressman. : TABER
16
River on which Murmansk is. : KOLA
17
Actor-director-producer. : JOSEFERRER
19
Like a desert. : ARID
20
Harbor, as a thought. : ENTERTAIN
21
Lucy, the suffragist. : STONE
22
Sea in Antarctica. : ROSS
23
Port on the Orne River. : CAEN
24
Very pale. : ASHEN
27
Dancer from Hickory County, Mo. : SALLYRAND
32
Charlie's friend Mortimer. : SNERD
33
Discoverer of Cape of Good Hope. : DIAS
34
More than enough. : TOO
35
Girl's nickname. : SAL
36
Founder of the first women's magazine, 1830. : GODEY
38
Helen of Troy's grandson. : ION
39
Auxiliary verb. : ARE
40
Fill to repletion. : SATE
41
Contemporary poet. : FROST
43
Warning road sign. : MENATWORK
46
Country ways. : LANES
47
A great quantity: Colloq. : HEAP
48
Upper course of the Thames river. : ISIS
50
Sound of a mighty blow. : WHANG
52
Well-known playwright's adopted name. : TENNESSEE
57
Martha of the movies. : RAYE
58
Locale of a fabulous railroad. : LONGISLAND
59
Willow plant. : ITEA
60
Wrinkled. : LINED
61
Sound of good cheer at a bacchanal. : EVOE
62
Fictional heroine. : TESS
63
Leaf of grass. : BLADE
64
Elevator sign. : DOWN
Down
1
P.O.W. island. : KOJE
2
Black. : EBON
3
The main point. : GIST
4
Confederate in a confidence game. : STEERER
5
Proofreader's marks. : STETS
6
Worry. : HARASS
7
Dugout or shelter: French. : ABRI
8
Greatly interested. : KEEN
9
Make a misstep. : ERR
10
Tenley Albright, for instance. : SKATER
11
Elizabethan holiday. : CORONATION
12
Sen. Johnston of Spartanburg. : OLIN
13
Plow through something. : WADE
18
Fern leaf. : FROND
21
Declares. : SAYS
23
Retired general. : CLAY
24
Shillong is its capital. : ASSAM
25
Attractive deception. : SNARE
26
Star of a Mary Chase play. : HELENHAYES
28
Egyptian asp. : ADDER
29
Norwegian statesman. : LIE
30
Part of a lariat. : NOOSE
31
Taboos. : DONTS
36
Stare: Dial. : GAWP
37
Ear: Comb. form. : OTO
40
"The antler'd monarch of the waste." : STAG
41
Fielder's forte. : FLIES
42
Fought, on the TV screen: Slang. : RASSLED
44
Defender of Troy. : AENEAS
45
Ruled (with "it"). : KINGED
49
Tricky or mean: Slang. : SNIDE
50
Legal document. : WRIT
51
Despise. : HATE
52
Work hard. : TOIL
53
City in central Sicily. : ENNA
54
Jimmy the pantominist. : SAVO
55
"Ah, Wilderness were Paradise ___!" : ENOW
56
Churchill's aide. : EDEN
58
Legal degree. : LLB

Answer summary:
10 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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