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Ernst Theimer
New York Times, Saturday, July 7, 1984
31-Across : Present
Author:
Ernst Theimer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.71, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 94, Cheaters: 5, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Ernst Theimer has 50 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
1 P | 2 A | 3 S | 4 T | 5 E | 6 R | 7 N | 8 S | 9 O | 10 C | 11 C | 12 E | 13 R |
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14 A | T | L | A | R | G | E | 15 L | A | F | A | R | G | E |
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16 T | H | E | B | I | T | E | 17 S | O | F | F | L | E | A | S |
18 I | L | E | S | 19 D | O | V | E | S | 20 E | L | I |
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21 N | E | P | 22 M | I | L | E | R | 23 S | P | I | T |
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24 A | T | I | 25 H | O | N | O | R | 26 S | P | I | T | E |
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27 S | E | N | 28 D | I | N | G | 29 S | 30 A | T | I | N | E | D |
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31 G | I | V | E | 32 L | O | N | G | |||||||
33 P | 34 A | C | K | E | T | 35 S | 36 A | M | A | S | S | 37 E | 38 D |
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39 A | P | R | E | S | 40 P | 41 L | E | A | T | 42 L | A | R |
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43 L | A | A | R | 44 S | O | A | R | S | 45 A | S | E |
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46 E | C | T | 47 S | A | N | T | A | 48 A | T | I | S |
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49 T | H | E | 50 F | L | I | G | H | T | 51 O | 52 F | B | E | E | S |
53 T | E | R | R | A | C | E | 54 E | N | D | O | R | S | E |
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55 E | S | S | A | Y | S | 56 D | E | R | U | S | T | S |
© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,660
Across
1
Part of Dobbin's foot : PASTERN
8
Tampa Bay Rowdies' game : SOCCER
14
Unconfined : ATLARGE
15
American landscape painter : LAFARGE
16
Canine woes : THEBITESOFFLEAS
18
Seine sights : ILES
19
Hawks' antitheses : DOVES
20
Yale or Whitney : ELI
21
Fiber cluster : NEP
22
Coe or Ovett : MILER
23
Barbecue item : SPIT
24
Philippine native : ATI
25
Distinction : HONOR
26
Ill will : SPITE
27
Ham's activity : SENDING
29
Made smooth and lustrous : SATINED
31
Present : GIVE
32
Protracted : LONG
33
Mail boats : PACKETS
36
Piled up : AMASSED
39
Afterward, at Monte Carlo : APRES
40
Fold : PLEAT
42
Gibbon : LAR
43
Dutch painter of "The Quack" : LAAR
44
Aviates : SOARS
45
Enzyme : ASE
46
Outside: Comb. form : ECT
47
Famed bag man : SANTA
48
Monkshood : ATIS
49
Nectar search : THEFLIGHTOFBEES
53
Portico : TERRACE
54
Underwrite : ENDORSE
55
Lamb products : ESSAYS
56
Removes iron oxide : DERUSTS
Down
1
Metallic films : PATINAS
2
Olympian : ATHLETE
3
Dormant volcanoes : SLEEPINGCRATERS
4
Identifies : TABS
5
Assam silkworm : ERI
6
Col.'s command : RGT
7
In want : NEEDING
8
Morley of "60 Minutes" : SAFER
9
Switch positions : OFFS
10
Golfer Peete : CAL
11
Crawling critics : CREEPINGSLATERS
12
Part of the French motto : EGALITE
13
Moved a house : RESITED
15
Romeo and Juliet : LOVERS
17
Alone : SOLO
22
French impressionist : MONET
23
Gyrates : SPINS
25
Uredo : HIVES
26
A weasel : STOAT
28
Levee worker : DIKER
30
Egyptian geishas : ALMAS
33
Board for Benton : PALETTE
34
Parisian gangsters : APACHES
35
Item to throw in : SPONGE
36
Made effervescent : AERATED
37
Most facile : EASIEST
38
Clothes : DRESSES
41
Wooden strip : LATH
44
Levantine ketches : SAICS
47
Do in : SLAY
48
___ Ben Adhem : ABOU
50
Monk's title : FRA
51
"Paris ___," Brady book : ONE
52
Drive in N.Y.C. : FDR
Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 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.