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W. E. Jones
W. E. Jones

New York Times, Saturday, May 7, 1955

15-Across : Too mature.

Author:
W. E. Jones
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.46, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
W. E. Jones has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,139
Across
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"Good night, Mrs. ___, wherever you are." : CALABASH
9
Reproachful person. : SHAMER
15
Too mature. : OVERRIPE
16
Roof of the mouth. : PALATE
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Vixen. : HARRIDAN
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Differing from the norm. : ATYPIC
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Mohammed ___, Pakistan Premier. : ALI
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Trip on wheels. : CARRIDE
22
Mauna ___. : LOA
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Signifies assent. : NODS
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In India, a groom for horses. : SYCE
26
Time signal. : BELL
27
Member of the Union of South Africa. : NATAL
30
Storehouse for guns. : ARSENAL
32
Traveler to Gretna Green. : ELOPER
35
Novelist Hamsun. : KNUT
36
Shadwell and Austin, for example. : POETSLAUREATE
39
Qualified. : ABLE
40
The south wind. : AUSTER
41
Hay fever. : ALLERGY
43
Goes on a date (with "out"). : STEPS
46
Rip. : TEAR
47
Ribbed fabrics. : REPS
50
___ pearl. : SEED
52
"___ in the stilly night ... " : OFT
53
Garments in Malaya. : SARONGS
56
___ Luiz, Brazilian seaport. : SAO
57
Character in "Martin Chuzzlewit." : SAIREY
59
President Odria's capital. : LIMAPERU
61
Sailors' stew. : SCOUSE
62
Human beings. : ADAMITES
63
Vergilian epic. : AENEID
64
Quisling. : RENEGADE
Down
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"Yankee Doodle Dandy." : COHAN
2
Mythical island paradise. : AVALON
3
City in NE Spain. : LERIDA
4
Timetable abbreviation. : ARR
5
___-a-brac. : BRIC
6
Zinka Milanov role. : AIDA
7
Airplane wing parts. : SPARS
8
Sen. Dworshak. : HENRY
9
Worker in a garden. : SPADER
10
Detest. : HATE
11
___ Khan. : ALY
12
Popular sundae flavor. : MAPLENUT
13
Bleach. : ETIOLATE
14
Method of removing a public official. : RECALL
21
Flier of Greek myth. : ICARUS
24
Iron worker. : STEELER
26
City on the Ganges. : BENARES
28
Make otherwise. : ALTER
29
___ Alamos. : LOS
31
Kind of trapshooting. : SKEET
33
Katharine Cornell, for instance. : PLAYER
34
Water: Fr. : EAU
36
Bob Hope's Indian picture (with "The"). : PALEFACE
37
Offering to a deity. : OBLATION
38
Stock market abbreviation. : RTS
41
Mother of Xerxes. : ATOSSA
42
Tended to whiten. : GRAYED
44
Coin current on the Prado. : PESETA
45
Scorched. : SEARED
48
___ regions. : POLAR
49
Spurious, mean: Slang. : SNIDE
51
Drench. : DOUSE
53
West Indian food fish. : SESI
54
Federal investigator. : GMAN
55
Identical. : SAME
58
Regret. : RUE
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Oblong casting of iron. : PIG

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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