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Fletcher Coates
Fletcher Coates

New York Times, Monday, July 18, 1955

47-Across : Jack and Jill's burden.

Author:
Fletcher Coates
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
Fletcher Coates has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,211
Across
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Talk noisily: Slang. : YAWP
5
___ up (stored away). : LAID
9
Biblical and political first name. : ADLAI
14
Useful sea product. : AGAR
15
Japanese girdle box. : INRO
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Money in Teheran. : RIALS
17
Recent. : LATE
18
City on the Dnieper. : KIEV
19
Undercover name. : ALIAS
20
Applied purposes. : USES
21
Kind of homemade wine. : ELDERBERRY
23
Ransack. : RIFLE
25
Still. : CALM
26
Unproductive 24 hours. : OFFDAY
28
Half a scale. : DOREMIFA
32
Preserved. : CURED
33
Lessen: Poet. : BATE
34
Not long from now. : ANON
35
Personality. : EGO
36
Pater's wife. : MATER
37
Dress (with "out"). : TOG
38
Charley's impersonation. : AUNT
40
Minerals. : ORES
41
Abracadabra. : SPELL
43
Radio and TV chains. : NETWORKS
45
Thin. : SPARSE
46
Arrow poison. : INEE
47
Jack and Jill's burden. : APAIL
48
Practicality. : HORSESENSE
52
Disputed territory of Europe. : SAAR
55
Australian diplomat. : EVATT
56
___ le Moko. : PEPE
57
Summit. : ACME
58
Extend an agreement. : RENEW
59
Commentator Sevareid. : ERIC
60
Name of Topper's dog. : NEIL
61
Man: Comb form. : ANDRO
62
Very amusing, so to speak. : RICH
63
Unequal things. : ODDS
Down
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Korean boundary river. : YALU
2
Turkish VIPs. : AGAS
3
Brando's latest beat. : WATERFRONT
4
Chair a meeting. : PRESIDE
5
Probable. : LIKELY
6
Of old women. : ANILE
7
Angered. : IRED
8
Certain bird homes. : DOVECOTES
9
Fit to plow. : ARABLE
10
An awkward fix. : DILEMMA
11
Animal's burrow. : LAIR
12
Winged. : ALAR
13
Suburb of Paris. : ISSY
22
More excellent. : RARER
24
The Crockett craze, for example. : FAD
26
Pacific. : OCEAN
27
Musical form. : FUGUE
28
Engagements. : DATES
29
Entwined. : INTERLACED
30
Jesters. : FOOLS
31
An axe to grind, so to speak. : ANGLE
33
Tavern worker. : BARKEEPER
36
Manners, : MORES
39
Storm. : TWISTER
41
Hot Springs. : SPA
42
Countryman: Sp. : PAISANO
44
Pugilistic combination. : ONETWO
45
Senatorial specialty. : SPEECH
47
Cold side dish. : ASPIC
48
Mother of Ares. : HERA
49
Roasting place. : OVEN
50
Site of gold fields in So. Africa. : RAND
51
Italian saint. : NERI
53
Surrounded. : AMID
54
Kinsmen: Abbr. : RELS

Answer summary:
11 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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