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Madeline Corse
Madeline Corse

New York Times, Monday, July 16, 1962

9-Across : Sinclair Lewis hero.

Author:
Madeline Corse
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Madeline Corse has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,749
Across
1
Rocky cliff. : SCAR
5
Antlered animal. : STAG
9
Sinclair Lewis hero. : CASS
13
Apple. : POME
14
Musical groups. : TRIOS
16
Noun suffix. : ENCE
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Twenty: Prefix. : ICOS
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Electronic phenomenon. : AUTOMATION
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Hiawatha's grandmother. : NOKOMIS
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Roman grammarian, circa 333. : DONATUS
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Imparted. : LENT
24
Place. : LOCATE
25
Ebb. : RECEDE
28
Please: Ger. : BITTE
30
Collection of anecdotes. : ANA
31
False gods. : IDOLS
33
Hirsute. : HAIRY
37
French painter. : MONET
39
Sprint. : RUN
40
Follow. : ENSUE
41
Silver: Sp. : PLATA
42
Discourage. : DETER
44
Author Wallace. : LEW
45
Guiding ideals of a people. : ETHOS
47
Thumb-twiddlers. : IDLERS
49
Describing old England. : MERRIE
52
Wings. : ALAE
53
Sandy. : ARENOSE
55
One kind of political speech. : KEYNOTE
59
___ for (held for the future). : HADINSTORE
61
Vis-___ (opposite). : AVIS
62
Keep ___ (persist in doing a job). : ATIT
63
Jackson's Secy. of War. : EATON
64
Breathy sound. : PANT
65
Torpid. : LOGY
66
Burning glass. : LENS
67
City in Nevada. : ELKO
Down
1
Mental whirl. : SPIN
2
Palm tree. : COCO
3
In a frenzy. : AMOK
4
Do cobbling. : RESOLE
5
Discolored. : STAINED
6
Confidence. : TRUST
7
River island. : AIT
8
Honorable. : GOOD
9
Porpoise, perhaps. : CETACEAN
10
Writer Loos. : ANITA
11
Talent finder. : SCOUT
12
Awareness. : SENSE
15
Young salmon. : SMOLT
19
Tomorrow. : ANOTHERDAY
21
Spiritual exercise. : MEDITATION
25
Sloping passage. : RAMP
26
Organic compound. : ENOL
27
Place of first Biblical miracle. : CANA
28
Royal, navy, etc. : BLUES
29
"There ___ any more." : ISNT
32
Church calendar. : ORDO
34
Capri, for one. : ISLE
35
Remorseful one. : RUER
36
Trees. : YEWS
38
Absolute timelessness. : ETERNITY
43
"My Sister" and others. : EILEENS
46
Nobel prize novelist. : HESSE
48
Delaware Indian. : LENAPE
49
Taj ___. : MAHAL
50
Clio's sister. : ERATO
51
Spade again. : REDIG
52
City in Ohio. : AKRON
54
Relative of etc. : ETAL
56
Football field. : OVAL
57
Plink. : TINK
58
This: Sp. : ESTO
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Native of: Suffix. : OTE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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