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Philip G. Rosemond
Philip G. Rosemond

New York Times, Monday, August 29, 1955

36-Across : Betoken.

Author:
Philip G. Rosemond
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F J Q }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Philip G. Rosemond has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

The area of a baseball diamond (35-Across) is 8,100 sq. ft., yet the 180 sq. ft. measure appears in several AREA clues from this time. It's a bit of a mystery.

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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,253
Across
1
Cabbage dish. : SLAW
5
Enough: Fr. : ASSEZ
10
Head. : PATE
14
Move along on the runway. : TAXI
15
Dried coconut meat. : COPRA
16
He was: Latin. : ERAT
17
Times of day. : EVES
18
Estrangement. : ALIENATION
20
Exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. : MASTODON
22
Well-known first name in movies. : ZSAZSA
23
___ go bragh! : ERIN
24
Word from Caesar's triumphal statement. : VICI
25
"___ Chenier," Giordano's opera. : ANDREA
28
Jaunty. : DEBONAIR
32
Miss Hart of the courts. : DORIS
33
Month: German. : MONAT
34
Spanish title: Abbr. : SRA
35
The diamond's 180 sq. ft. : AREA
36
Betoken. : AUGUR
37
Bewail. : MOAN
38
Book of the Old Testament: Abbr. : PSA
39
Whines. : PULES
40
Air in choral music. : CANTO
41
Violent winds. : TEMPESTS
43
One of the girls in "Wonderful Town." : EILEEN
44
Opposite. : ANTI
45
Sandy tract: Brit. : DENE
46
Hindu incarnation. : AVATAR
49
New Year's gift. : CALENDAR
53
Equip or outfit. : HABILITATE
55
Military cap. : KEPI
56
Verve. : ELAN
57
Clothes drier. : AIRER
58
Skip. : OMIT
59
Feature of 11 Down. : MESA
60
A donkey. : NEDDY
61
Hop. : VINE
Down
1
Check. : STEM
2
Molten matter. : LAVA
3
Timber tools. : AXES
4
Twining shrub of the pea family. : WISTERIA
5
Nova Scotia, poetically. : ACADIA
6
Lawmaker. : SOLON
7
Tell a story. : SPIN
8
Prior to. : ERE
9
Island off Africa's east coast. : ZANZIBAR
10
French marshal. : PETAIN
11
Where Painted Desert is: Abbr. : ARIZ
12
Art center, New Mexico. : TAOS
13
Scene of recent eruption. : ETNA
19
Broad neck scarf. : ASCOT
21
Malachites. : ORES
24
Hesperus. : VENUS
25
Adjust. : ADAPT
26
Group of languages of Europe. : NORSE
27
Think wistfully. : DREAM
28
Genoese magistrates. : DOGES
29
"Two can live as cheaply ___." : ASONE
30
Incensed. : IRATE
31
Continued. : RANON
33
More than two: Comb. form. : MULTI
36
Native of Innsbruck. : AUSTRIAN
37
He was in power, March, 1953, to February, 1955. : MALENKOV
39
Punitive. : PENAL
40
Spanish movie. : CINE
42
Green film on copper. : PATINA
43
Where to catch congers. : EELERY
45
Old-fashioned. : DATED
46
Pause-filling sound. : AHEM
47
Kashmir is one. : VALE
48
Garments of camel's-hair. : ABAS
49
Deuce. : CARD
50
Half: Prefix. : DEMI
51
"___ to see the peep show." : APIN
52
Ordinance. : RITE
54
Restrict. : TIE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 3 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.

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