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Roberta H. Morse
New York Times, Thursday, April 5, 1962
60-Across : Clouds.
Author:
Roberta Morse
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Roberta H. Morse has 64 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Roberta Morse is an alias for Roberta H. Morse.
1 E | 2 G | 3 I | 4 S | 5 A | 6 C | 7 T | 8 E | 9 D | 10 F | 11 A | 12 R | 13 E |
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14 E | R | N | A | 15 C | A | R | L | O | 16 U | D | A | L |
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17 L | I | T | S | 18 A | N | E | A | R | 19 L | L | B | S |
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20 S | E | E | K | 21 S | 22 A | S | T | R | 23 O | L | A | B | E |
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24 F | R | I | E | 25 N | D | S | H | I | P | V | I | I | ||
26 L | A | N | A | I | 27 T | A | I | |||||||
28 N | 29 O | A | 30 S | T | A | 31 I | 32 N | 33 L | E | 34 F | 35 T | 36 Y |
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37 O | U | C | 38 H | 39 O | N | T | O | 40 P | 41 W | O | R | E |
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42 T | R | E | A | 43 S | 44 S | A | M | A | 45 R | 46 R | A | W |
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47 D | A | 48 D | 49 I | N | U | 50 R | E | |||||||
51 S | 52 P | A | C | E | 53 M | 54 A | N | G | L | E | N | 55 N | ||
56 I | N | A | M | O | R | A | T | A | 57 E | M | A | I | 58 L |
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59 M | A | G | I | 60 M | I | S | T | 61 S | 62 O | M | N | I |
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63 A | R | A | N | 64 A | R | E | E | K | 65 R | E | E | F |
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66 M | E | N | D | 67 L | E | A | D | Y | 68 A | S | S | T |
© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,647
Across
1
Sponsorship. : EGIS
5
Simulated. : ACTED
10
Food. : FARE
14
Singer Sack. : ERNA
15
Monte ___. : CARLO
16
Shetland system of land tenure. : UDAL
17
Wagon-___, French sleeping cars. : LITS
18
Lend ___ (listen). : ANEAR
19
Professional degrees: Abbr. : LLBS
20
Explores. : SEEKS
22
Predecessor of the sextant. : ASTROLABE
24
Fly-by-wire craft. : FRIENDSHIPVII
26
House feature in Hawaii. : LANAI
27
Siamese. : TAI
28
Destroyer famed for its pick-up. : NOA
30
Color. : STAIN
33
Nickname for a sinistral man. : LEFTY
37
Pained exclamation. : OUCH
39
Above all. : ONTOP
41
Lasted. : WORE
42
Company officer: Abbr. : TREAS
44
Island NE of Leyte. : SAMAR
46
Bleak. : RAW
47
Family member. : DAD
49
Habituate. : INURE
51
Pioneer hero. : SPACEMANGLENN
56
Sweetheart. : INAMORATA
57
French enamel. : EMAIL
59
Ancient trio. : MAGI
60
Clouds. : MISTS
62
All: Prefix. : OMNI
63
Island group off Ireland. : ARAN
64
Emitting smoke. : AREEK
65
Coral formation. : REEF
66
Fix. : MEND
67
Containing a certain metal. : LEADY
68
Right-hand man: Abbr. : ASST
Down
1
Great Lakes pest. : EELS
2
Come to ___. : GRIEF
3
Weave. : INTERLACE
4
Rembrandt's wife. : SASKIA
5
Here: Sp. : ACA
6
Some of our allies. : CANADIANS
7
Curl. : TRESS
8
Port on the Gulf of Aqaba. : ELATH
9
Amy ___, Dickens character. : DORRIT
10
Windshield asset. : FULLVIEW
11
U. N. name. : ADLAI
12
Master, in Biblical days. : RABBI
13
If not. : ELSE
21
City on the Yonne River. : SENS
23
Variety of silica. : OPAL
25
Norstad's concern. : NATO
28
Nowise. : NOT
29
"___ Town." : OUR
31
Give ___ whirl. : ITA
32
Proposed. : NOMINATED
34
Alan, Gus, John, etc. : FORENAMES
35
___-la-la. : TRA
36
Tree. : YEW
38
Felt strongly inclined (with "to"). : HADAMIND
40
Feeling of anguish. : PANG
43
City in Maine. : SACO
45
Guide. : RULE
48
Of the skin. : DERMAL
50
Shark sucker. : REMORA
51
Kind of drum. : SNARE
52
Heathen. : PAGAN
53
French civic official. : MAIRE
54
Uncertain. : ATSEA
55
Baseball teams. : NINES
56
One of Karim's titles. : IMAM
58
Elevator. : LIFT
61
Heaven. : SKY
Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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