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Elsie Bishop
New York Times, Wednesday, August 10, 1955
50-Across : Round and tapering to a point.
Author:
Elsie Bishop
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { B F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Elsie Bishop has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 U | 2 R | 3 G | 4 E | 5 A | 6 S | 7 C | 8 O | 9 T | 10 D | 11 I | 12 S | 13 C |
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14 P | U | R | R | 15 N | E | R | V | E | 16 I | D | E | A |
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17 A | L | A | R | 18 T | R | E | A | T | 19 Y | P | O | R | T |
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20 S | E | D | A | 21 T | I | V | E | 22 H | E | L | L | A | S |
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23 U | N | I | T | E | 24 K | E | N | O | ||||||
25 G | 26 L | A | D | L | Y | 27 P | Y | R | A | M | 28 I | 29 D | 30 S |
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31 L | A | T | 32 E | P | 33 H | O | R | 34 N | A | C | R | E |
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35 E | R | I | 36 E | 37 E | E | R | I | 38 E | 39 S | O | I | R |
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40 A | G | O | N | 41 Y | 42 A | G | E | N | 43 T | 44 N | E | G |
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45 M | E | N | T | A | 46 L | L | Y | 47 D | E | 48 P | O | S | E |
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49 E | L | I | S | 50 C | O | N | I | C | ||||||
51 H | 52 A | 53 U | N | T | S | 54 C | O | R | N | E | L | 55 I | 56 A |
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57 E | L | S | T | A | T | 58 I | O | N | S | 59 C | A | N | S |
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60 E | S | S | E | 61 E | L | I | T | E | 62 E | S | C | H |
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63 D | O | R | S | 64 D | O | L | E | D | 65 S | T | A | Y |
© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,234
Across
1
Impel. : URGE
5
High spot of the London season. : ASCOT
10
Spinal pad. : DISC
14
Sound of contentment. : PURR
15
Coolness in danger. : NERVE
16
Inkling. : IDEA
17
Winglike. : ALAR
18
Amoy, for instance. : TREATYPORT
20
Tending to soothe. : SEDATIVE
22
Ancient Greece. : HELLAS
23
Join. : UNITE
24
Game of chance. : KENO
25
With pleasure. : GLADLY
27
Wonders of Gizeh. : PYRAMIDS
31
A language: Abbr. : LAT
32
Government official, in Greece. : EPHOR
34
Mother-of-pearl. : NACRE
35
American and Canadian lake. : ERIE
37
Suggestive of ghosts. : EERIE
39
Evening, in Paris. : SOIR
40
Acute distress. : AGONY
42
Deputy. : AGENT
44
Photographic film: Abbr. : NEG
45
Intellectually. : MENTALLY
47
Oust. : DEPOSE
49
Ancient Greek city, now in ruins. : ELIS
50
Round and tapering to a point. : CONIC
51
Visits habitually. : HAUNTS
54
Lady whose sons were her jewels. : CORNELIA
57
Relics of the past, in Manhattan. : ELSTATIONS
59
Containers. : CANS
60
To be: Lat. : ESSE
61
Choice. : ELITE
62
Steel center in Luxembourg. : ESCH
63
Flying beetles. : DORS
64
Gave sparingly (with "out"). : DOLED
65
Satisfy for a time. : STAY
Down
1
Tree common in Java. : UPAS
2
Regime. : RULE
3
Commencement. : GRADUATION
4
Commission. : ERRAND
5
Person or thing foreshadowed by a preceding one. : ANTITYPE
6
Be adequate. : SERVE
7
Relative of the Ojibway. : CREE
8
Eggs. : OVA
9
Tie. : TETHER
10
Certificates. : DIPLOMAS
11
A Buddha image. : IDOL
12
Antitoxins. : SERA
13
Leopards. : CATS
19
City in China. : YENAN
21
Roofing material. : TILE
24
___ eleison (Lord, have mercy upon us). : KYRIE
25
Glint. : GLEAM
26
Bulky. : LARGE
27
DuBose Heyward novel, 1925. : PORGY
28
Ridiculer of traditional ideas. : ICONOCLAST
29
Removes moisture. : DRIES
30
Twilled woolen material. : SERGE
33
Makes sound. : HEALS
36
Agreements. : ENTENTES
38
Sanctioned. : ENDORSED
41
Meeting place of 1945. : YALTA
43
Crockett's birthplace: Abbr. : TENN
46
Tilted, as a ship. : LISTED
48
Portions. : PIECES
50
Short story. : CONTE
51
Attend. : HEED
52
Further. : ALSO
53
Communist stronghold. : USSR
54
Spiral. : COIL
55
Cuzco Indian. : INCA
56
White. : ASHY
58
Labor group. : ILO
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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