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S. A. Kay
New York Times, Saturday, July 15, 1967
50-Across : Bone.
Author:
S. A. Kay
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 2, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
S. A. Kay has 118 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 T | 3 A | 4 F | 5 F | 6 C | 7 O | 8 T | 9 E | 10 C | 11 H | 12 I | 13 P |
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14 T | Y | P | E | E | 15 A | P | R | A | 16 H | O | B | O |
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17 U | P | P | E | R | 18 P | T | A | R | 19 M | I | G | A | N |
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20 D | E | L | 21 B | 22 U | R | I | N | 23 A | N | G | R | Y |
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24 E | 25 D | E | N | I | C | 26 T | R | E | Y | S | ||||
27 R | 28 E | T | I | R | E | 29 A | 30 W | A | K | E | ||||
31 A | U | R | A | 32 O | L | I | V | E | 33 U | 34 N | 35 O |
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36 P | R | E | S | 37 T | 38 I | D | I | G | I | T | 39 A | T | O | R |
40 T | E | E | 41 O | B | O | L | S | 42 I | T | S | A |
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43 T | W | I | R | L | 44 D | 45 U | D | E | E | N |
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46 C | 47 O | R | E | S | 48 U | 49 S | U | R | E | R | ||||
50 F | E | M | U | R | 51 T | S | A | R | S | 52 A | 53 B | 54 C |
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55 I | N | N | I | S | 56 F | A | I | L | 57 U | 58 I | N | T | A |
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59 A | S | I | S | 60 A | L | O | T | 61 L | O | C | U | S |
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62 T | E | A | M | 63 D | E | N | Y | 64 A | N | E | S | T |
© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,545
Across
1
Group of workers. : STAFF
6
Fantail's home. : COTE
10
Golf shot. : CHIP
14
Melville novel. : TYPEE
15
Port of Guam. : APRA
16
Footloose one. : HOBO
17
One of the regions. : UPPER
18
State bird of Alaska. : PTARMIGAN
20
State: Abbr. : DEL
21
Engraver's tool. : BURIN
23
Indignant. : ANGRY
24
Like a garden. : EDENIC
26
Deuce toppers. : TREYS
27
Shut up shop. : RETIRE
29
Bestir one's self. : AWAKE
31
Enveloping glow. : AURA
32
Fruit. : OLIVE
33
Before duo. : UNO
36
Hocus-pocus man. : PRESTIDIGITATOR
40
Point of aim, in quoits. : TEE
41
Coins of Attica. : OBOLS
42
"___ boy!" : ITSA
43
Coil. : TWIRL
44
Dubliner's clay pipe. : DUDEEN
46
Nuclei. : CORES
48
Moneylender of a sort. : USURER
50
Bone. : FEMUR
51
Boris and others. : TSARS
52
Block letters. : ABC
55
Poetical name for Ireland. : INNISFAIL
57
Range of the Rockies. : UINTA
59
Notice on some price tags. : ASIS
60
Thanks ___. : ALOT
61
Place. : LOCUS
62
Astros. : TEAM
63
Negate. : DENY
64
"I will build me ___ ... " : ANEST
Down
1
Ornamental knob. : STUD
2
Bodoni, for one. : TYPE
3
Source of spring blossoms. : APPLETREE
4
Charge. : FEE
5
American novelist. : FERBER
6
Isle of song. : CAPRI
7
Trick of a sort. : OPTICALILLUSION
8
System of conveyance: Abbr. : TRAN
9
Concha. : EAR
10
Bret Harte's "Heathen ___." : CHINEE
11
Selfish: Colloq. : HOGGY
12
Structural items. : IBARS
13
Cayuse. : PONY
19
Buy or sell. : MARKET
22
French pronoun. : UNE
25
Buenos ___ (good morning): Sp. : DIAS
26
Rikki-tikki-___. : TAVI
27
Carried away with joy. : RAPT
28
Seine tributary. : EURE
30
Head ornaments. : WIGS
32
See 46 Down. : ODOR
33
Speech. : UTTERANCE
34
Profile feature. : NOSE
35
Port SW of Algiers. : ORAN
37
Manhattan's skyline. : TOWERS
38
Wading bird. : IBIS
39
Member of 1 Across. : AIDE
43
"War is hell," for one. : TRUISM
44
Major: Mus. : DUR
45
Relative of Orson. : URSULA
46
Perfume with myrrh. : CENSE
47
Per ___ (in every respect): Lat. : OMNIA
49
Piquant. : SALTY
50
Peremptory order. : FIAT
51
Fable. : TALE
53
Heat units, for short. : BTUS
54
Angler's action. : CAST
56
Passing fancy. : FAD
58
Noun suffix. : ION
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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