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Norton Rhoades
New York Times, Thursday, October 25, 1956
28-Down : Word much-used in the Old Testament.
Author:
Norton Rhoades
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Norton Rhoades has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 F | 2 L | 3 A | 4 G | 5 B | 6 R | 7 A | 8 D | 9 K | 10 O | 11 R | 12 A | 13 N |
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14 L | I | R | E | 15 R | E | N | E | 16 E | X | U | D | E |
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17 I | M | M | E | 18 D | I | A | T | E | 19 N | I | N | E | S |
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20 P | A | Y | 21 I | N | D | E | P | 22 E | N | D | E | N | T |
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23 I | V | E | S | 24 L | E | E | ||||||||
25 S | 26 P | 27 A | D | E | D | 28 B | 29 A | L | L | 30 P | 31 G | 32 A |
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33 H | A | G | A | R | 34 S | E | M | E | S | 35 T | E | R | S |
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36 U | T | A | H | 37 S | A | G | O | S | 38 W | A | I | T |
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39 T | H | R | O | 40 W | A | W | A | Y | 41 F | E | R | M | I |
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42 S | O | S | 43 A | U | N | T | 44 H | E | A | L | E | R |
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45 E | V | E | 46 Y | O | L | K | ||||||||
47 S | 48 U | 49 B | S | E | R | 50 V | 51 I | E | N | T | 52 V | 53 I | 54 A |
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55 T | R | A | S | S | 56 E | N | M | E | S | 57 H | I | N | G |
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58 A | G | R | E | E | 59 S | T | A | Y | 60 O | N | C | E |
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61 B | E | A | S | T | 62 T | O | Y | S | 63 B | E | A | D |
© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,676
Across
1
Standard. : FLAG
5
Wire nail. : BRAD
9
Sacred book in Arabic. : KORAN
14
Money in Rome. : LIRE
15
M. Descartes. : RENE
16
Ooze. : EXUDE
17
First-hand. : IMMEDIATE
19
Shoes of a size for Clementine. : NINES
20
Make, as a visit. : PAY
21
Important type of voter. : INDEPENDENT
23
Senator from New York. : IVES
24
Shelter. : LEE
25
Dug in the garden. : SPADED
28
Formal dance. : BALL
30
Initials of a golf tournament. : PGA
33
Ishmael's mother. : HAGAR
34
Terms of the school year. : SEMESTERS
36
Where Dinosaur National Monument is. : UTAH
37
Starchy foodstuffs. : SAGOS
38
Cool one's heels. : WAIT
39
Handbill. : THROWAWAY
41
Nobel Prize physicist. : FERMI
42
Distress signal. : SOS
43
Potential baby sitter. : AUNT
44
That which cures. : HEALER
45
Mother ___. : EVE
46
Yellow substance. : YOLK
47
Obsequious. : SUBSERVIENT
52
By way of. : VIA
55
Volcanic earth. : TRASS
56
Snaring. : ENMESHING
58
Come to terms. : AGREE
59
Tarry. : STAY
60
Formerly. : ONCE
61
Beauty's companion. : BEAST
62
Jack-in-the-boxes. : TOYS
63
Drop or bubble. : BEAD
Down
1
Saucy. : FLIP
2
South American capital. : LIMA
3
Cadets' team. : ARMY
4
Agree: Slang. : GEE
5
Pickled. : BRINED
6
Studies. : READS
7
Prior to: Prefix. : ANTE
8
Profound. : DEEP
9
Doghouses. : KENNELS
10
Chemical compound. : OXIDE
11
Ancient Scandinavian poem. : RUNE
12
Free port of Arabia. : ADEN
13
Comfortable home. : NEST
18
Frogman. : DIVER
22
French pronoun. : ELLES
23
State whose flower is the syringa. : IDAHO
25
Closes. : SHUTS
26
Disease: Comb. form. : PATHO
27
Culture mediums. : AGARS
28
Word much-used in the Old Testament. : BEGAT
29
Chinese seaport. : AMOY
30
Novelist Buck. : PEARL
31
Sooty dirt. : GRIME
32
Up and about. : ASTIR
34
Cut. : SAWN
35
Pinch. : TWEAK
37
Ballplayer Hank ___, of the Cards. : SAUER
40
Hair application. : WAVESET
41
Hats made of wool fabric. : FELTS
44
Darlings. : HONEYS
45
Letters. : ESSES
46
"Gather ye rosebuds while ___." : YEMAY
47
Pierce. : STAB
48
Impel. : URGE
49
Theda of early movies. : BARA
50
Article of clothing. : VEST
51
Preposition. : INTO
52
Honeysuckle. : VINE
53
Peruvian Indian. : INCA
54
Full of years. : AGED
57
Play ___ (cause trouble). : HOB
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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