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Louise Rabb
New York Times, Monday, January 12, 1953
11-Down : When King Canute was a boy.
Author:
Louise Rabb
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.72, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Grid has duplicate clues.
Louise Rabb has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 A | 2 G | 3 E | 4 S | 5 T | 6 A | 7 F | 8 T | 9 L | 10 E | 11 M | 12 A | 13 Y |
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14 T | R | I | O | 15 E | S | A | U | 16 A | N | I | M | A |
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17 M | I | S | C | 18 O | N | S | T | R | 19 U | C | T | I | O | N |
20 O | N | E | I | D | A | 21 E | N | S | 22 I | R | K |
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23 N | I | E | C | 24 E | 25 S | E | 26 W | 27 S | ||||||
28 A | 29 C | H | 30 R | E | A | 31 M | 32 D | E | A | 33 R | 34 M | 35 E |
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36 D | R | O | 37 P | 38 S | K | A | 39 T | 40 S | T | E | A | L |
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41 D | E | W | E | 42 Y | 43 E | L | I | 44 T | A | P | U | L |
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45 I | D | E | A | S | 46 R | I | D | 47 D | 48 N | U | D | E |
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49 S | O | R | R | E | 50 L | 51 K | E | E | 52 P | 53 B | E | N |
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54 T | R | U | 55 K | 56 S | M | A | 57 L | L | ||||||
58 I | 59 N | 60 A | 61 L | I | 62 E | 63 O | R | O | I | 64 D | 65 E |
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66 D | I | S | 67 C | 68 O | U | N | T | 69 E | N | A | N | C | E | S |
70 E | L | I | A | S | 71 G | U | R | I | 72 G | A | N | T |
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73 M | E | A | T | S | 74 S | I | L | O | 75 S | N | Y | S |
© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,303
Across
1
Centuries. : AGES
5
Majority leader of the Senate. : TAFT
9
Chief of our Strategic Air Command. : LEMAY
14
The Graces, for instance. : TRIO
15
Biblical name. : ESAU
16
Soul; life. : ANIMA
17
Wrong interpretation. : MISCONSTRUCTION
20
Lake NE of Syracuse, N. Y. : ONEIDA
21
Naval officer: Abbr. : ENS
22
Weary. : IRK
23
Elizabeth II to the Duke of Windsor. : NIECE
25
Bastes. : SEWS
28
"___, du lieber Augustin." : ACH
30
Twenty quires, plus. : REAM
32
Two words of surprise. : DEARME
36
Theater curtain lowered from the flies. : DROP
38
Three-hand card game. : SKAT
40
"___ the show." : STEAL
41
Adviser to the new Administration. : DEWEY
43
Biblical name. : ELI
44
Island group of Sulu archipelago. : TAPUL
45
Plans of action. : IDEAS
46
Lorna Doone married him. : RIDD
48
Museum piece. : NUDE
49
Kin of a chestnut. : SORREL
51
Board and lodging. : KEEP
53
"Big ___." : BEN
54
One of the Caroline Islands. : TRUK
56
Ungenerous. : SMALL
58
Girl's name. : INA
61
Norwegian statesman. : LIE
63
Alloy used in cheap jewelry. : OROIDE
66
Shows disapproval of. : DISCOUNTENANCES
70
Biblical name. : ELIAS
71
Daughter of 61 Across. : GURI
72
Glove: French. : GANT
73
Kernels of nuts. : MEATS
74
Pit for storing grain. : SILO
75
Curves of ship's planks. : SNYS
Down
1
Vapor: Comb. form. : ATMO
2
Facial expression. : GRIN
3
President of Pennsylvania State College. : EISENHOWER
4
Members; associates: Latin. : SOCII
5
Card combinations. : TENACES
6
Baalam's steed. : ASS
7
Kismet. : FATE
8
Acts in a variety show. : TURNS
9
Ingredient of sealing wax. : LAC
10
Adjective and noun suffix. : ENT
11
When King Canute was a boy. : MIII
12
___ patriae (love of country): Latin. : AMOR
13
G. I. magazine of World War II. : YANK
18
River into the Baltic. : ODER
19
Made a practice of. : USED
24
Former Air Force general. : EAKER
26
Actress from Brooklyn. : WEST
27
Relative of Mephistopheles. : SATAN
28
Half of the name of an African capital. : ADDIS
29
I believe: Latin. : CREDO
31
Lebanon's delegate to U. N. : MALIK
33
"Mr. ___." : REPUBLICAN
34
Noted actor (1862-1951). : MAUDE
35
Miss Douglas of Loch Katrine. : ELLEN
37
Lively or brisk. : PEART
39
Gets over, as a difficulty. : TIDES
42
River into the North Sea. : YSER
47
Italian relative of 27 Down. : DEMONIO
50
Girl's name. : LULU
52
River in Brazil. : PARA
55
They score 80 in pinochle. : KINGS
57
Hankers. : LONGS
58
The same. : IDEM
59
River into the Mediterranean. : NILE
60
Large land mass. : ASIA
62
Case for small objects. : ETUI
64
Repudiate. : DENY
65
Superlative suffixes. : ESTS
67
Siamese. : CAT
68
Cloak-and-dagger group. : OSS
69
___-king. : ERL
Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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