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W. E. Jones
New York Times, Saturday, May 11, 1957
23-Across : Tony of Hollywood.
Author:
W. E. Jones
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { C H J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
W. E. Jones has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:
In 35-Across, PEARLET is clued as "Small fruit." According to Merriam-Webster, a pearlet is a small pearl, not pear.
1 S | 2 O | 3 F | 4 T | 5 M | 6 A | 7 R | 8 T | 9 S | 10 O | 11 R | 12 L | 13 Y |
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14 E | B | R | O | 15 A | M | A | R | A | 16 L | O | O | M |
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17 W | E | I | M | 18 A | R | A | N | E | R | 19 D | U | K | E |
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20 U | S | A | 21 M | I | S | T | E | D | 22 M | E | I | R |
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23 P | E | R | 24 K | I | N | S | 25 T | I | 26 N | A | ||||
27 I | D | E | E | 28 O | N | E | N | 29 E | 30 S | 31 S |
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32 M | 33 A | 34 D | N | E | S | S | 35 P | E | A | R | L | E | T |
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36 O | L | E | G | 37 I | S | E | R |
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38 T | O | P | M | 39 O | 40 S | 41 T | 42 E | 43 L | 44 E | V | E | N | S |
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45 S | E | T | O | V | E | R | 46 S | O | L | E | ||||
47 N | O | R | A | 48 S | T | I | R | 49 R | 50 E | 51 R |
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52 S | 53 L | 54 A | G | 55 I | N | 56 L | A | I | D | 57 I | R | E |
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58 W | E | L | K | 59 A | S | A | Y | O | E | 60 L | S | O | N |
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61 A | T | T | U | 62 L | I | V | E | N | 63 L | E | S | E |
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64 M | O | O | T | 65 S | T | A | R | S | 66 D | R | E | W |
© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 2,874
Across
1
Gentle. : SOFT
5
Trading centers. : MARTS
10
Airfield near Paris. : ORLY
14
River of Spain. : EBRO
15
Lucine of the Met. : AMARA
16
Take shape. : LOOM
17
Sporting dog from Germany. : WEIMARANER
19
Nobleman. : DUKE
20
Patriotic monogram. : USA
21
Became hazy. : MISTED
22
Israel's Foreign Minister. : MEIR
23
Tony of Hollywood. : PERKINS
25
Diminutive of a girl's name. : TINA
27
___ fixe. : IDEE
28
Unity. : ONENESS
32
Great folly. : MADNESS
35
Small fruit. : PEARLET
36
Designer Cassini. : OLEG
37
Czech river into the Elbe. : ISER
38
At the apex. : TOPMOST
42
Lucky numbers. : ELEVENS
45
Appoint as supervisor. : SETOVER
46
Fish for a filet. : SOLE
47
Ibsen's Mrs. Helmer. : NORA
48
Swizzle-stick, for example. : STIRRER
52
Refuse material. : SLAG
55
Describing mosaic. : INLAID
57
Wrath. : IRE
58
TV orchestra leader. : WELK
59
Al Jolson's real name. : ASAYOELSON
61
Most westerly Aleutian Island. : ATTU
62
Make gay. : LIVEN
63
___ majesty. : LESE
64
Debatable. : MOOT
65
Luminaries. : STARS
66
Sketched. : DREW
Down
1
Mend. : SEWUP
2
Much too plump. : OBESE
3
Tuck of Sherwood Forest. : FRIAR
4
Actor Ewell. : TOM
5
Amphibious soldiers. : MARINES
6
Accumulates. : AMASSES
7
Rave. : RANT
8
"Sparrow in the ___." : TREETOP
9
Pilchard. : SARDINE
10
Subject of well-known Kern song. : OLDMANRIVER
11
Rake. : ROUE
12
Trouble-making Norse god. : LOKI
13
Norse giant. : YMER
18
Organic compound. : AMIDE
24
Brynner's Oscar-winning role. : KINGMONGKUT
26
Educators' group: Abbr. : NEA
29
Other. : ELSE
30
Sighted. : SEEN
31
Ships: Abbr. : STRS
32
Witticisms. : MOTS
33
Drug-yielding plant. : ALOE
34
Governmental division: Abbr. : DEPT
39
Egg: Comb. form. : OVO
40
Magazine features. : SERIALS
41
Conveyance, as of goods. : TRANSIT
42
Trier. : ESSAYER
43
Soothing liquids. : LOTIONS
44
Leave out. : ELIDE
49
Part of a step. : RISER
50
Worn away. : EROSE
51
Renovate. : RENEW
52
What Leander did. : SWAM
53
Mother of Apollo. : LETO
54
Voice. : ALTO
56
Source of pumice. : LAVA
60
Academic degree: Abbr. : LLD
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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