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Louise Rabb
New York Times, Thursday, August 20, 1959
21-Across : Part of R.S.V.P.
Author:
Louise Rabb
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 9, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Grid has supersymmetry.
Louise Rabb has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 P | 2 E | 3 A | 4 N | 5 U | 6 T | 7 S | 8 T | 9 R | 10 A | 11 T | 12 A | |||
13 T | E | N | S | I | L | E | 14 P | H | A | L | A | N | 15 X |
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16 I | N | D | I | A | N | A | 17 H | O | N | E | S | T | Y |
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18 A | N | I | 19 S | A | P | 20 L | I | N | G | 21 S | I | L |
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22 R | A | V | 23 E | 24 S | O | O | N | G | 25 H | E | B | E |
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26 A | M | E | N | 27 D | 28 T | A | X | 29 G | A | L | E | N |
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30 S | E | S | T | E | 31 T | 32 M | O | U | S | S | E |
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33 W | A | R | 34 I | O | N | |||||||||
35 H | 36 O | 37 M | I | L | Y | 38 B | U | T | 39 T | 40 I | 41 N |
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42 O | R | A | N | T | 43 Y | 44 A | 45 M | 46 T | E | R | N | E |
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47 M | E | R | E | 48 N | A | S | A | 49 L | 50 R | I | D | E |
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51 A | G | A | 52 M | I | L | K | S | O | 53 P | 54 B | I | D |
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55 G | A | B | 56 R | I | E | L | 57 T | R | A | 58 D | U | C | E |
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59 E | N | O | U | N | C | E | 60 I | N | T | O | N | E | D |
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61 O | U | S | T | E | R | 62 C | A | S | T | E | S |
© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,688
Across
1
Something to munch on. : PEANUT
7
Layers. : STRATA
13
Ductile. : TENSILE
14
Battle formation. : PHALANX
16
Crossroads of America. : INDIANA
17
Good policy. : HONESTY
18
Black cuckoo. : ANI
19
Young tree. : SAPLING
21
Part of R.S.V.P. : SIL
22
Carry on vocally. : RAVE
24
Famous Chinese family. : SOONG
25
Youth goddess. : HEBE
26
Rectify. : AMEND
28
Burdensome charge. : TAX
29
Ancient physician. : GALEN
30
Musical group. : SESTET
32
Frozen dessert. : MOUSSE
33
Instance of man's inhumanity to man. : WAR
34
Common suffix. : ION
35
Small sermon. : HOMILY
38
Meddle: Slang. : BUTTIN
42
Praying figure. : ORANT
43
Vegetable. : YAM
46
Coat with lead and tin. : TERNE
47
Only. : MERE
48
Descriptive of some voices. : NASAL
50
Hitchhiker's goal. : RIDE
51
Karim's title. : AGA
52
Mollycoddle. : MILKSOP
54
Bridge term. : BID
55
Angel in "Green Pastures." : GABRIEL
57
Slander. : TRADUCE
59
State formally. : ENOUNCE
60
Chanted. : INTONED
61
Wrongful dispossession: Law. : OUSTER
62
Ethnic divisions. : CASTES
Down
1
Pseudonym. : PENNAME
2
Salad makings. : ENDIVES
3
"___ was saying." : ASI
4
Island west of Sumatra. : NIAS
5
Bones. : ULNAS
6
Household container. : TEAPOT
7
Colossal figure at Gaza. : SPHINX
8
Strap. : THONG
9
Tolled. : RANG
10
Brew. : ALE
11
Mortarboard adornments. : TASSELS
12
Resort town near Nice. : ANTIBES
13
Dress-up items for the queen. : TIARAS
15
Oily hydrocarbon. : XYLENE
20
Mauna ___. : LOA
23
Weave. : ENTWINE
25
Frequenter. : HAUNTER
27
Started a card game. : DEALT
29
Be extinguished. : GOOUT
31
Strive. : TRY
32
Marble. : MIB
35
Reverence. : HOMAGE
36
Herb for seasoning. : OREGANO
37
Large stork. : MARABOU
39
Roman official. : TRIBUNE
40
Lists in reference books. : INDICES
41
Lacked. : NEEDED
43
Kind of "dawg." : YALLER
44
Invite. : ASK
45
Aromatic gum. : MASTIC
48
Member of the family. : NIECE
49
Blackmore character. : LORNA
52
Aromatic herb. : MINT
53
Light touches. : PATS
56
People of Kiev. : RUS
58
Speck. : DOT
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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