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James R. Overholt
New York Times, Tuesday, May 3, 1955
5-Across : Novelist William.
Author:
James R. Overholt
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
James R. Overholt has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 T | 2 O | 3 G | 4 S | 5 M | 6 C | 7 F | 8 E | 9 E | 10 C | 11 A | 12 M | 13 S |
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14 O | M | N | I | 15 A | R | R | A | S | 16 H | E | A | T |
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17 R | O | A | N | 18 P | O | E | T | S | 19 E | R | N | A |
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20 Y | O | R | K | 21 T | O | W | N | 22 E | 23 A | R | I | N | G |
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24 H | U | N | C | 25 H | 26 A | R | E | A | S |
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27 M | 28 I | 29 S | 30 F | I | T | 31 H | A | 32 R | R | Y | ||||
33 A | D | L | O | N | 34 P | A | N | I | 35 T | 36 E | 37 S | 38 T |
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39 G | E | O | R | G | 40 E | A | N | D | M | 41 A | R | T | H | A |
42 S | E | P | T | 43 R | I | D | S | 44 T | E | N | E | T |
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45 G | 46 A | R | N | I | 47 D | R | E | A | M | S |
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48 G | 49 A | 50 T | E | S | 51 E | N | 52 V | O | I | |||||
53 A | B | R | O | A | 54 D | 55 D | E | L | A | 56 W | 57 A | 58 R | 59 E |
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60 B | O | E | R | 61 A | 62 G | I | R | L | 63 A | R | A | S |
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64 L | U | N | G | 65 D | I | A | N | A | 66 S | M | I | T |
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67 E | T | T | E | 68 A | B | N | E | R | 69 H | Y | D | E |
© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,135
Across
1
Sports clothes. : TOGS
5
Novelist William. : MCFEE
10
Projections on wheels. : CAMS
14
Exeunt ___; stage direction. : OMNI
15
Tapestry. : ARRAS
16
Trial race. : HEAT
17
Color of a horse. : ROAN
18
Troubadours. : POETS
19
Singer Berger. : ERNA
20
Waterloo for Cornwallis. : YORKTOWN
22
Forming fruiting spikes. : EARING
24
Premonition: Colloq. : HUNCH
26
Yards. : AREAS
27
Square peg in a round hole. : MISFIT
31
Revolutionary Lee. : HARRY
33
Well-known Berlin hotel. : ADLON
34
Mrs., in Poland. : PANI
35
Touchstone. : TEST
39
Prominent early Americans. : GEORGEANDMARTHA
42
Calendar abbreviation. : SEPT
43
Frees. : RIDS
44
Dogma. : TENET
45
Ornamented, as a dish: Fr. : GARNI
47
Fond hopes. : DREAMS
48
Revolutionary Horatio. : GATES
51
Last stanza of a ballade. : ENVOI
53
In Europe, for example. : ABROAD
55
Historic river. : DELAWARE
60
One of a group in South Africa. : BOER
61
"It's ___!" : AGIRL
63
Armenian river. : ARAS
64
Relative of a gill. : LUNG
65
Italian goddess. : DIANA
66
Hard hit. : SMIT
67
Diminutive suffix. : ETTE
68
Biblical name. : ABNER
69
___ Park. : HYDE
Down
1
One side of the struggle in 1775. : TORY
2
Melville book. : OMOO
3
Growl: Var. : GNAR
4
Kitchen appurtenance. : SINK
5
Plan in detail. : MAPOUT
6
Symbol of royalty. : CROWN
7
___ War. : FRENCHANDINDIAN
8
Consume. : EAT
9
Being. : ESSE
10
Parson Weems' fable, 1806. : CHERRYTREE
11
High dwelling place. : AERIE
12
Miraculous food. : MANNA
13
Red deer. : STAGS
21
Tangible object. : THING
23
Swiss river. : AAR
25
Indicators. : HANDS
27
Periodicals: Colloq. : MAGS
28
___ fixe. : IDEE
29
Spill over. : SLOP
30
Revolutionary New York defense. : FORTGEORGE
32
Edge. : RIM
34
Revolutionary patriot. : PAINE
36
Sicilian volcano. : ETNA
37
Son of Noah. : SHEM
38
Does work with a shuttle. : TATS
40
Make a mistake. : ERR
41
Roman rooms. : ATRIA
46
Man's name. : ASA
47
It was thrown across the Rappahannock. : DOLLAR
48
Triangular feature in architecture. : GABLE
49
On every side. : ABOUT
50
City in Italy. : TRENT
52
French writer. : VERNE
54
Baby's early word. : DADA
56
Evergreen State: Abbr. : WASH
57
The Redcoats. : ARMY
58
Sortie. : RAID
59
Renaissance family. : ESTE
62
Name for The Rock. : GIB
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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