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A. H. Drummond, Jr.
New York Times, Saturday, November 1, 1958
52-Down : Make a boner.
Author:
A. H. Drummond, Jr.
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
A. H. Drummond, Jr. has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 G | 2 U | 3 E | 4 R | 5 N | 6 I | 7 C | 8 A | 9 W | 10 O | 11 O | 12 F | 13 E | 14 R |
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15 A | N | C | H | O | R | E | D | 16 A | R | C | A | N | A |
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17 E | T | C | E | T | E | R | A | 18 R | E | A | C | T | S |
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19 L | O | E | S | S | 20 T | M | 21 A | N | 22 E | S | P |
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23 U | O | 24 F | 25 A | B | S | 26 E | 27 N | T | ||||||
28 G | 29 A | 30 L | S | 31 L | 32 A | N | E | 33 B | O | O | 34 S | 35 T |
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36 A | G | A | 37 M | I | N | T | 38 H | O | O | F | E | R |
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39 L | A | N | 40 T | A | N | A | 41 P | I | N | N | A | C | E |
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42 E | N | D | I | N | G | 43 M | A | N | Y | 44 C | T | N |
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45 S | A | L | L | E | 46 M | O | N | T | 47 G | E | S | T |
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48 U | L | T | 49 I | M | O | 50 S | 51 A | O | ||||||
52 G | 53 A | B | 54 R | E | N | 55 T | 56 S | H | 57 A | 58 R | 59 P |
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60 O | N | B | 61 A | 62 S | E | 63 S | E | 64 A | F | A | R | E | R |
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65 O | N | E | M | A | N | 66 E | L | D | O | R | A | D | O |
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67 F | O | R | A | G | E | 68 T | E | A | R | D | R | O | P |
© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,413
Across
1
Great Picasso mural of Spanish Civil War. : GUERNICA
9
Hi-fi component. : WOOFER
15
Firmly secured. : ANCHORED
16
Secrets or mysteries. : ARCANA
17
Common Latin expression. : ETCETERA
18
Responds. : REACTS
19
Wind-deposited fertile loam. : LOESS
20
Treasury agent. : TMAN
22
Sixth sense: Abbr. : ESP
23
___ Penn. or Pitt. : UOF
25
Part of AWOL. : ABSENT
28
Dates for guys. : GALS
31
Narrow way. : LANE
33
Helping hand: Colloq. : BOOST
36
Eastern title. : AGA
37
Denver or Philadelphia building. : MINT
38
Dancer: Slang. : HOOFER
39
Shrubby plant like verbena. : LANTANA
41
Ship's boat. : PINNACE
42
Finale. : ENDING
43
Numerous. : MANY
44
Cotangent: Abbr. : CTN
45
Hall: Fr. : SALLE
46
___ Blanc. : MONT
47
Deed; exploit. : GEST
48
In the last month. : ULTIMO
50
___ Paulo, Brazil. : SAO
52
Chatter: Colloq. : GAB
54
Tear. : RENT
56
Pointed. : SHARP
60
Safe at first. : ONBASE
63
Sailor. : SEAFARER
65
Kind of show. : ONEMAN
66
Mythical land of gold. : ELDORADO
67
Search for food or provisions. : FORAGE
68
Sign of sorrow. : TEARDROP
Down
1
Celt. : GAEL
2
Poetic preposition. : UNTO
3
Behold: Lat. : ECCE
4
Indian monkey. : RHESUS
5
___ bad (fairly good). : NOTSO
6
Fury. : IRE
7
Document: Abbr. : CERT
8
Too hard to be broken. : ADAMANT
9
Admonishes. : WARNS
10
Beauxite. : ORE
11
Wood sorrel. : OCA
12
Confronting one another. : FACETOFACE
13
Noun suffixes. : ENTS
14
Grate. : RASP
21
Presidential nickname. : ABE
24
Throw aside. : FLING
26
Black. : EBONY
27
Time of day. : NOON
28
Storm winds. : GALES
29
Capital of Guam. : AGANA
30
No sailor he. : LANDLUBBER
32
Anecdote collection. : ANA
34
Denominations. : SECTS
35
River to the Humber. : TRENT
37
Artist defended by Zola. : MANET
38
Suggests indirectly. : HINTS
40
Cultivate. : TILL
41
All: Comb. form. : PAN
43
Lunar occurrence. : MOONSET
46
Common French abbreviation. : MME
47
___ with (cause trouble to). : GOHARD
49
Actress Dunne. : IRENE
51
Concerning. : ASFOR
52
Make a boner. : GOOF
53
___ Domini. : ANNO
55
It often precedes vision. : TELE
57
Sandarac tree. : ARAR
58
Fix over. : REDO
59
Stage item. : PROP
61
"Oh, I ___ cook and a captain bold ... " : AMA
62
Droop. : SAG
64
Actress Rehan. : ADA
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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