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John Finch
New York Times, Monday, July 7, 1975
17-Across : Great sleuth's debut
Author:
John Finch
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 11, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
John Finch has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 O | 3 R | 4 T | 5 B | 6 A | 7 B | 8 A | 9 C | 10 H | 11 I | 12 A | 13 N |
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14 T | S | A | R | 15 E | S | A | U | 16 L | E | D | G | E |
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17 A | S | T | U | 18 D | Y | I | N | S | 19 C | A | R | L | E | T |
20 R | A | S | S | E | L | A | S | 21 A | R | M | E | D | ||
22 T | W | I | N | 23 D | R | E | I | |||||||
24 G | 25 R | E | E | K | 26 T | R | O | T | T | 27 E | 28 R | 29 S |
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30 G | O | O | D | Y | 31 S | E | A | M | S | 32 T | O | E |
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33 L | O | S | S | 34 L | O | N | G | S | 35 T | H | O | R |
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36 E | S | E | 37 B | O | N | D | S | 38 T | H | E | M | E |
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39 N | E | S | 40 T | E | G | G | S | 41 N | E | A | R | S | ||
42 E | A | R | S | 43 C | O | R | N | |||||||
44 S | 45 P | A | K | E | 46 A | I | R | R | A | 47 I | 48 D | 49 S |
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50 H | O | L | M | E | S | 51 A | N | D | W | A | T | S | O | N |
52 A | M | E | E | R | 53 I | D | E | A | 54 O | L | L | A |
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55 L | E | A | D | S | 56 M | A | R | Y | 57 S | E | E | P |
© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,459
Across
1
Classify : SORT
5
Rum cake : BABA
9
Aegean wine : CHIAN
14
Alexander or Ivan : TSAR
15
Jacob's brother : ESAU
16
Narrow shelf : LEDGE
17
Great sleuth's debut : ASTUDYINSCARLET
20
Dr. Johnson's prince : RASSELAS
21
Ready for the fray : ARMED
22
Castor, to Pollux : TWIN
23
Eins, zwei, ___ : DREI
24
Attic : GREEK
26
Hambletonian entries : TROTTERS
30
Sticky : GOODY
31
Ridges : SEAMS
32
___ the mark : TOE
33
Red-ink item : LOSS
34
Yearns : LONGS
35
Thunder god : THOR
36
Compass heading : ESE
37
Bobby or savings : BONDS
38
Recurrent melody : THEME
39
Financial escape-hatches : NESTEGGS
41
Approaches : NEARS
42
All ___ (attentive) : EARS
43
Kind of snow or cob : CORN
44
"Thus ___ Zarathustra" : SPAKE
46
London ordeals of 1940 : AIRRAIDS
50
Team of 17 Across : HOLMESANDWATSON
52
Moslem prince : AMEER
53
Opinion : IDEA
54
Jar : OLLA
55
Plays first : LEADS
56
Contrary gardener : MARY
57
Ooze : SEEP
Down
1
Sirius or Polaris : STAR
2
Pelion upon ___ : OSSA
3
Sinking-ship quitters : RATS
4
College officials : TRUSTEDS
5
Turkish ruler's dominion : BEYLIK
6
Chinese or Japanese : ASIAN
7
Forbids : BANS
8
Out, in Vienna : AUS
9
Red wines : CLARETS
10
Ben Gunn, e.g. : HERMIT
11
Lazy : IDLE
12
Like good brandy : AGED
13
Snare : NET
18
Decimal-system man : DEWEY
19
Rebounds : CAROMS
23
Hauls : DRAGS
24
High hanger : GOOSE
25
War of the ___ : ROSES
26
Minds : TENDS
27
Upper regions : ETHER
28
Mrs. Hoople's offerings : ROOMS
29
Dry : SERE
30
Valley : GLEN
31
"Song of ___" : SONGS
34
Legendary name for England : LOGRES
35
God of death : THANATOS
37
Lab vessels : BEAKERS
38
___ firma : TERRA
40
Harnessed together : TEAMED
41
Ibsen's country : NORWAY
43
Beverage : CIDER
44
"___ pumpkins!" : SOME
45
Entreaty : PLEA
46
"A wing ___ prayer" : ANDA
47
___ of Man : ISLE
48
Charity : DOLE
49
Word with shot or dragon : SNAP
50
Falstaff's friend : HAL
51
Purpose : AIM
Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.