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Churchill Satterlee
New York Times, Tuesday, July 31, 1956
16-Across : Author of "Minority Report."
Author:
Churchill Satterlee
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { Q W X }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Churchill Satterlee has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
1 P | 2 R | 3 E | 4 A | 5 C | 6 H | 7 S | 8 T | 9 E | 10 A | 11 M | ||||
12 R | A | T | T | L | E | 13 C | A | S | C | A | 14 D | 15 E |
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16 M | E | N | C | K | E | N | 17 I | N | T | E | G | E | R |
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18 A | P | T | 19 A | R | R | 20 A | N | G | E | 21 N | O | N |
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22 J | A | I | 23 L | 24 G | Y | N | T | 25 S | 26 P | A | D | E |
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27 O | R | N | E | 28 R | Y | 29 T | I | 30 C | 31 A | T | A | S |
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32 R | E | G | I | E | 33 S | I | L | O | 34 G | E | R | T |
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35 P | E | 36 R | T | 37 L | O | 38 P | E | |||||||
39 S | 40 U | 41 E | Z | 42 U | R | 43 F | A | 44 G | A | 45 S | 46 P | 47 E |
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48 A | G | N | I | 49 B | A | R | 50 S | A | N | T | E | E |
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51 M | A | D | G | 52 E | 53 D | A | 54 I | L | 55 T | E | A | L |
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56 O | N | E | 57 A | 58 R | D | U | O | U | 59 S | 60 U | S | E |
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61 A | D | M | 62 I | R | A | L | 63 N | I | C | 64 O | B | A | R |
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65 N | A | I | V | E | T | E | 66 I | C | U | M | E | N | ||
67 C | E | D | A | R | 68 C | E | M | E | N | T |
© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,590
Across
1
Urge strongly. : PREACH
7
Water vapor. : STEAM
12
Talk rapidly (with "on"). : RATTLE
13
Range of the Sierra Nevada. : CASCADE
16
Author of "Minority Report." : MENCKEN
17
Whole number. : INTEGER
18
Quick to learn. : APT
19
Put in order. : ARRANGE
21
Sine qua ___. : NON
22
Lockup. : JAIL
24
Peer's last name. : GYNT
25
Card. : SPADE
27
Bullheaded. : ORNERY
29
Habitual mental reaction. : TIC
31
Mindanao tribesmen. : ATAS
32
Government monopoly for taxation in Europe. : REGIE
33
Circular farm structure. : SILO
34
Nickname for Miss Lawrence. : GERT
35
Saucy. : PERT
37
Easy gait. : LOPE
39
Seaport, isthmus, gulf, canal. : SUEZ
42
City in SE Turkey. : URFA
44
Peninsula below the St. Lawrence. : GASPE
48
Primary Vedic god. : AGNI
49
Close. : BAR
50
U.S. miler. : SANTEE
51
A Margaret diminutive. : MADGE
53
Eire's Lower House. : DAIL
55
River duck. : TEAL
56
Pronoun. : ONE
57
Difficult to do. : ARDUOUS
60
Employ. : USE
61
Arleigh Burke's rank. : ADMIRAL
63
Island group in the Bay of Bengal. : NICOBAR
65
Artlessness. : NAIVETE
66
"Sumer is ___ in, Lhude sing cuccu!" : ICUMEN
67
Wood. : CEDAR
68
Calcined building substance. : CEMENT
Down
1
Make ready. : PREPARE
2
Bombastic. : RANTING
3
And so forth. : ETC
4
Large Aleutian island. : ATKA
5
Ministry. : CLERGY
6
One of the James brothers. : HENRY
7
The slightest bit. : SCINTILLA
8
Strong taste. : TANG
9
Adlai's fellow contender. : ESTES
10
Untouchable serve. : ACE
11
Tycoon. : MAGNATE
14
Relative of 57 Across. : DEODAR
15
Oscar Wilde hero. : ERNEST
16
Barbara's rank. : MAJOR
20
Counter: Prefix. : ANTI
23
East German city. : LEIPZIG
26
Spectacular exhibition. : PAGEANT
28
Arikaree. : REE
30
Cote sound. : COO
33
Man on the fence. : STRADDLER
36
Something that annoys. : RUB
38
Sponsor of a professional golf tournament. : PGA
39
Native of a Pacific island. : SAMOAN
40
British protectorate in E. Africa. : UGANDA
41
Indigenous. : ENDEMIC
43
Mrs. in Germany. : FRAU
45
Prussian general in the Revolution. : STEUBEN
46
Farmer of Europe. : PEASANT
47
Type of fisherman. : EELER
50
Gated waterway. : SLUICE
52
Aurated. : EARED
54
Greek architectural order. : IONIC
58
Pro ___. : RATA
59
Froth. : SCUM
62
Verbal contraction. : IVE
64
Cockney's diggings. : OME
Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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