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Anna McDannell
New York Times, Monday, May 14, 1962
40-Across : Very controversial.
Author:
Anna McDannell
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Anna McDannell has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
1 S | 2 P | 3 A | 4 R | 5 N | 6 O | 7 P | 8 A | 9 R | 10 F | 11 E | 12 S | 13 T |
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14 H | O | S | E | 15 E | D | U | C | E | 16 A | T | T | U |
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17 A | S | S | A | 18 I | L | A | N | T | S | 19 S | T | A | B |
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20 G | H | O | S | T | S | 21 J | O | I | 22 N | T | U | R | E |
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23 C | O | Y | 24 B | A | N | N | E | D | ||||||
25 M | 26 A | I | N | 27 R | O | B | E | 28 G | R | 29 O | 30 I | 31 N |
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32 I | R | A | 33 B | A | L | I | 34 F | R | A | N | C | E |
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35 D | E | T | 36 R | A | C | T | 37 G | R | O | W | T | H | S |
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38 S | T | E | E | L | Y | 39 T | O | E | S | 40 H | O | T |
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41 T | E | S | T | S | 42 C | O | A | T | 43 H | E | R | S |
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44 R | A | 45 N | O | U | T | 46 V | A | L | ||||||
47 C | 48 R | 49 E | A | M | E | R | S | 50 L | A | M | E | 51 N | 52 T |
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53 L | A | I | C | 54 V | O | L | 55 T | A | R | I | V | E | R |
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56 E | T | R | E | 57 I | N | E | R | T | 58 T | E | L | E |
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59 F | E | E | S | 60 S | A | D | I | E | 61 E | L | L | E |
© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,686
Across
1
Box. : SPAR
5
Designating some stocks. : NOPAR
10
Suffix used with song and fun. : FEST
14
Anklets. : HOSE
15
Draw out. : EDUCE
16
Isle W of Kiska. : ATTU
17
Aggressive opponents. : ASSAILANTS
19
Try: Colloq. : STAB
20
Ibsen revival. : GHOSTS
21
Widow's portion. : JOINTURE
23
Demure. : COY
24
Censored, in a way. : BANNED
25
Central. : MAIN
27
Peignoir. : ROBE
28
Junction of vaults. : GROIN
32
Anger, in Spain. : IRA
33
Indonesian isle. : BALI
34
Part of the grand tour. : FRANCE
35
Derogate. : DETRACT
37
Offshoots. : GROWTHS
38
Hard. : STEELY
39
Digits. : TOES
40
Very controversial. : HOT
41
Trials. : TESTS
42
Layer. : COAT
43
Possessive pronoun. : HERS
44
Elapsed. : RANOUT
46
French lace, for short. : VAL
47
Small pitchers. : CREAMERS
50
Mourn. : LAMENT
53
Secular. : LAIC
54
Ghana dam site. : VOLTARIVER
56
Raison d'___. : ETRE
57
Inactive. : INERT
58
At a distance: Prefix. : TELE
59
Charges. : FEES
60
"Rain" heroine. : SADIE
61
French pronoun. : ELLE
Down
1
Shredded tobacco. : SHAG
2
Ritzy. : POSH
3
Colleagues. : ASSOCIATES
4
Motive. : REASON
5
Norse name. : NELS
6
Odalisk's home. : ODA
7
Indic language. : PUNJABI
8
Moss Hart book. : ACTONE
9
Tree exudate. : RESIN
10
Quick gunman. : FASTDRAW
11
Famous last words. : ETTU
12
Pentacle. : STAR
13
Subway of a sort. : TUBE
18
Character: Suffix. : ITY
22
Philippine island. : NEGROS
24
Gulp down. : BOLT
25
Central part. : MIDST
26
Mountain range. : ARETE
27
Pungent. : RACY
29
Honestly: Slang. : ONTHELEVEL
30
"Blood" of the Greek gods. : ICHOR
31
Phoebes' homes : NESTS
33
Canadian fir. : BALSAM
34
Guitar ridge. : FRET
36
Goes back over again. : RETRACES
37
Ibex. : GOAT
39
Disheveled. : TOUSLED
42
Solar halo. : CORONA
43
Biblical tribesman. : HAMITE
45
Leeward island. : NEVIS
46
Part of Provence. : VAR
47
Pitch symbol. : CLEF
48
Proportion. : RATE
49
Shaw's land. : EIRE
50
Recent. : LATE
51
Actress Gwyn. : NELL
52
Magnolia. : TREE
55
Three: Prefix. : TRI
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later.
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