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Evelyn E. Smith
New York Times, Thursday, November 4, 1954
21-Down : Emptier.
Author:
E. E. Smith
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { C J Q }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Evelyn E. Smith has 8 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
E. E. Smith is an alias for Evelyn E. Smith.
1 T | 2 A | 3 B | 4 L | 5 E | 6 S | 7 N | 8 O | 9 O | 10 D | 11 S |
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12 W | I | L | L | I | S | 13 S | T | A | R | L | E | T |
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14 B | A | L | L | E | T | S | 15 P | E | N | S | I | V | E |
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16 A | L | L | O | W | 17 A | 18 G | O | R | A | 19 V | O | W |
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20 S | L | A | T | 21 B | Y | R | O | N | 22 B | I | T | E |
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23 K | E | G | 24 B | A | S | I | N | 25 F | R | E | E | R |
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26 D | E | 27 T | E | R | 28 D | E | 29 P | L | O | R | E | S |
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30 A | G | E | 31 D | 32 R | A | I | N | |||||||
33 B | 34 U | 35 L | G | A | R | I | 36 A | 37 T | E | X | 38 A | 39 S | ||
40 A | L | E | U | T | 41 P | L | 42 I | E | R | 43 D | I | 44 B |
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45 H | U | G | S | 46 S | P | A | N | S | 47 B | A | L | E |
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48 A | L | A | 49 T | E | E | N | S | 50 A | I | L | E | R |
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51 M | A | T | 52 U | R | E | R | 53 T | 54 E | N | Z | I | N | G |
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55 A | T | O | N | E | R | S | 56 I | N | D | E | N | T | ||
57 S | E | R | I | E | S | 58 L | E | Y | T | E |
© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,955
Across
1
Postpone discussion of. : TABLE
6
Hair nets. : SNOODS
12
Ambassadress to Switzerland. : WILLIS
13
Hollywood hopeful. : STARLET
14
"Rodeo," "Fall River Legend," etc. : BALLETS
15
Thoughtful. : PENSIVE
16
Permit. : ALLOW
17
Greek market place. : AGORA
19
Pledge. : VOW
20
Part of a jalousie. : SLAT
21
Romantic poet. : BYRON
22
Snack. : BITE
23
Small cask. : KEG
24
Where yachts are moored. : BASIN
25
Less constrained. : FREER
26
Discourage. : DETER
28
Regrets. : DEPLORES
30
Full of years. : AGED
32
___-in-the-Face. : RAIN
33
Where Varna is. : BULGARIA
37
Where Beaumont is. : TEXAS
40
Cousin of Eskimo. : ALEUT
41
Diligent worker. : PLIER
43
Tool for planting. : DIB
45
Embraces. : HUGS
46
Wing lengths. : SPANS
47
Large package. : BALE
48
___ carte. : ALA
49
Youthful age. : TEENS
50
Sickly one. : AILER
51
More adult. : MATURER
53
Conqueror of Mt. Everest. : TENZING
55
Penitents. : ATONERS
56
Space of margin. : INDENT
57
Four straight. : SERIES
58
Philippine island. : LEYTE
Down
1
Cultivation of land. : TILLAGE
2
Distribute. : ALLOT
3
What Hazel did. : BLEW
4
Ignited. : LIT
5
Works of Hazlitt. : ESSAYS
6
Nobel Prize physicist. : STERN
7
Zola heroine. : NANA
8
Conjunctions. : ORS
9
Knightly film star. : OLIVIER
10
Zealot. : DEVOTEE
11
Worriers: Colloq. : STEWERS
12
Immured. : WALLED
13
He gave his name to a transposition of sounds. : SPOONER
14
Luxuriate in sunshine. : BASK
18
Plate in a storage battery. : GRID
21
Emptier. : BARER
22
Where Yankee Stadium is. : BRONX
24
Biblical word. : BEGAT
25
Jetman. : FLIER
27
Lisbon's river. : TAGUS
29
Canape spreads. : PATES
31
Big and Little. : DIPPERS
33
Where Nassau is. : BAHAMAS
34
Howl. : ULULATE
35
Testator. : LEGATOR
36
Large dog. : ALAN
38
Girl's name. : ADALINE
39
Omitting mention. : SILENT
42
Impart gradually: Var. : INSTIL
44
Television writer and actress. : BERG
46
Prophets. : SEERS
47
Composer Georges. : BIZET
49
Dryad's home. : TREE
50
Man's nickname. : ANDY
52
One: Comb. form. : UNI
54
Compass point. : ENE
Answer summary:
8 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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