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Harriet Gilson Rosenberg
New York Times, Saturday, January 25, 1975
28-Down : Germ-free
Author:
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 5.41, Missing: { K Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 C | 2 E | 3 N | 4 T | 5 Y | 6 E | 7 A | 8 R | 9 S | 10 A | 11 G | 12 O | |||
13 A | T | E | A | 14 R | 15 E | X | P | I | A | T | O | R | 16 Y |
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17 S | T | A | R | E | 18 S | I | R | T | H | O | M | A | S |
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19 T | U | R | N | S | 20 T | I | L | E | S | 21 N | E | T | T |
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22 H | I | N | E | S | 23 C | E | R | E | ||||||
24 J | 25 E | 26 B | 27 I | N | D | 28 S | A | T | ||||||
29 A | R | R | 30 A | N | G | E | 31 S | T | R | I | 32 N | 33 G | ||
34 W | R | A | N | G | L | E | 35 T | E | E | M | E | R | 36 S |
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37 S | T | O | L | E | D | 38 A | R | L | E | N | E | S |
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39 M | E | D | 40 T | I | E | 41 E | W | E |
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42 S | 43 P | A | D | 44 G | 45 A | E | L | S | ||||||
46 F | U | E | L | 47 T | A | B | L | E | S | 48 P | 49 O | 50 O | 51 N |
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52 I | R | R | I | 53 T | A | B | L | E | 54 L | O | R | N | E |
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55 R | E | S | E | M | B | L | E | S | 56 Y | E | A | T | S |
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57 R | E | S | C | U | E | R | S | 58 S | L | O | T |
© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,296
Across
1
Copper : CENT
5
Time long past : YEARSAGO
13
On ___ (carousing) : ATEAR
15
Atoning : EXPIATORY
17
Goggle : STARE
18
Lipton or Beecham : SIRTHOMAS
19
Subway devices : TURNSTILES
21
Minnesota lake : NETT
22
Jerome of the Met : HINES
23
Part of a bird's beak : CERE
24
Confederate general Stuart : JEB
27
Neighbor of Ill. : IND
28
Rested : SAT
29
Prepare : ARRANGE
31
Kind of quartet : STRING
34
Bicker : WRANGLE
35
Pourers of molten steel : TEEMERS
37
Wrapped in mink : STOLED
38
Miss Francis et al. : ARLENES
39
Slipper size: Abbr. : MED
40
Four-in-hand : TIE
41
Farm animal : EWE
42
Mining nail : SPAD
44
Celts : GAELS
46
Coal, for one : FUEL
47
Serving utensil : TABLESPOON
52
Cantankerous : IRRITABLE
54
Greene of TV : LORNE
55
Takes after : RESEMBLES
56
Irish poet : YEATS
57
Lifesavers : RESCUERS
58
___ machine : SLOT
Down
1
Playbill listing : CAST
2
"___, Brute!" : ETTU
3
Close to : NEAR
4
Mountain lake : TARN
5
Of course! : YESINDEED
6
Outcast : EXILE
7
After, in Paris : APRES
8
Scratches, in Britain : RITS
9
Czech measure : SAH
10
Formerly : ATONETIME
11
Pyle of early TV : GOMER
12
Spout forth : ORATE
14
Made roof repairs : RESHINGLED
16
Most-recently born: Abbr. : YST
20
Got a sensation of thrill : TINGLED
23
In a lax way : CARELESSLY
24
Gossip : JAW
25
Goes amiss : ERRS
26
Unbearable child : BRAT
28
Germ-free : STERILE
30
Incongruities : ANOMALIES
31
Like many D.P.'s : STATELESS
32
Hawaii's state bird : NENE
33
Prospered : GREW
36
Mariner's direction : SSE
42
More confident : SURER
43
Intrinsically : PERSE
44
Actor Clark : GABLE
45
More skilled : ABLER
46
Conifer : FIR
47
Prohibited : TABU
48
Edgar Allan et al. : POES
49
Kind of surgeon : ORAL
50
Hep : ONTO
51
___ egg : NEST
53
Southwest institution: Abbr. : TMC
Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 7 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.