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George Laczko
New York Times, Thursday, January 5, 1967
5-Down : Shush!
Author:
George Laczko
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
George Laczko has 37 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 P | 2 E | 3 E | 4 R | 5 S | 6 B | 7 E | 8 E | 9 A | 10 F | 11 T | 12 N |
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13 E | N | N | I | S | 14 E | L | L | 15 S | 16 M | E | R | O |
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17 G | R | A | M | S | 18 C | L | A | W | 19 B | R | I | N |
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20 T | O | M | 21 H | 22 A | L | I | T | E | 23 I | R | M | A |
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24 O | B | O | 25 E | 26 T | O | P | H | E | 27 A | V | Y | |||
28 P | E | R | I | 29 L | O | U | S | 30 T | R | A | C | 31 E | 32 R |
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33 G | O | L | D | E | 34 R | 35 C | L | A | R | O |
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36 P | 37 O | 38 T | H | O | L | E | 39 U | 40 S | H | E | R | E | D |
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41 O | D | E | T | S | 42 D | 43 A | M | I | E | N | ||||
44 L | I | S | T | E | 45 D | 46 T | E | N | S | C | 47 O | 48 R | 49 E |
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50 T | H | R | O | 51 S | T | L | E | 52 E | V | E | N |
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53 F | 54 O | C | I | 55 B | L | U | I | S | 56 H | 57 E | S | T |
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58 A | D | A | R | 59 L | U | N | A | 60 A | 61 F | R | E | E |
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62 C | O | S | T | 63 A | M | E | N | 64 D | E | B | A | R |
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65 T | R | E | Y | 66 P | S | S | 67 I | D | Y | L | S |
© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,354
Across
1
Equals. : PEERS
6
Country social. : BEE
9
Time of day: Abbr. : AFTN
13
City near Dallas. : ENNIS
14
Hotel wings. : ELLS
16
Tropical food fish. : MERO
17
Units of weight. : GRAMS
18
Kind of hammer. : CLAW
19
Stick of a fan. : BRIN
20
Noted pignapper. : TOM
21
Rock salt. : HALITE
23
Girl's name. : IRMA
24
Hautboy. : OBOE
26
Unstable. : TOPHEAVY
28
Fraught with danger. : PERILOUS
30
Stylus. : TRACER
33
More like honey. : GOLDER
35
Mild cigar. : CLARO
36
Deep pit. : POTHOLE
39
Served as escort. : USHERED
41
Creator of "Golden Boy." : ODETS
42
Revered name on Molokai. : DAMIEN
44
Wall St. term. : LISTED
46
200. : TENSCORE
50
Song thrush. : THROSTLE
52
___ Stephen. : EVEN
53
Central points. : FOCI
55
Tinged with a color. : BLUISH
57
Id ___. : EST
58
Jewish month. : ADAR
59
Large moth. : LUNA
60
"It's ___ country." : AFREE
62
Price. : COST
63
Choir's response. : AMEN
64
Exclude. : DEBAR
65
Spot card. : TREY
66
Note addendum. : PSS
67
Pastoral verse. : IDYLS
Down
1
Trousers style. : PEGTOP
2
Attire. : ENROBE
3
Captivate. : ENAMOR
4
Part of a wheel. : RIM
5
Shush! : SSSH
6
Foggy. : BECLOUDED
7
Oval. : ELLIPSE
8
Israeli port. : ELATH
9
That love-hate feeling. : AMBIVALENCE
10
Rail vehicle. : FERRYCAR
11
Adorn. : TRIM
12
Ninth: Prefix. : NONA
15
Fragrant. : SWEET
22
Coral formation. : ATOLL
25
Curtain time. : EIGHTTHIRTY
27
Ornamental structures. : ARCHES
29
Less restricted. : LOOSER
31
Sooner than. : ERE
32
Staff. : ROD
34
Early Bulgarians. : RUMELIANS
36
Baltic land: Abbr. : POL
37
Opposite of "amo." : ODI
38
Precedent-setter. : TESTCASE
40
Mathematical functions. : SINES
43
Harmonizes. : ATTUNES
45
Old Spanish coin. : DOBLA
47
Across the way: Scot. : OVERBY
48
Fasten firmly again. : RESEAL
49
Joins. : ENTERS
51
Fall off. : SLUMP
53
Actuality. : FACT
54
Scent. : ODOR
56
"___ but known ... " : HADI
61
Supplied. : FED
Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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