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Tom Mixon
Tom Mixon

MEMORY PIECE

New York Times, Sunday, December 11, 1960

87-Down : Whirring sound.

Author:
Tom Mixon
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 176, Blocks: 92, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 677 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 96, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 11, XRef: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 19 Grid has duplicate clues.
Tom Mixon has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

No author or title on original, but found the same puzzle in a book with this author and title, so added them. Also, the NYT incorrectly printed the letter at the 71-Across/57-Down crossing as an E in the answer key. Changed to an A.

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L
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© 1960, The New York TimesNo. 4,167
Across
1
"___ and the Paycock." : JUNO
5
Mountain cited by Hamlet. : OSSA
9
Sear. : CHAR
13
Poetic contraction. : TWAS
17
"Hitchy Koo" composer. : COLEPORTER
19
Broadway Cleopatra of 1925. : HELENHAYES
22
Theatrical "baby." : FANNIEBRICE
23
First Pulitzer Prize musical. : OFTHEEISING
25
Design. : IDEA
26
Black: Fr. : NOIR
27
Salamander. : NEWT
29
Once: Archaic. : ERST
30
Coin of Peru. : SOL
31
Poetic contraction. : TIS
32
Musical numbers: Abbr. : SELS
33
Some actors: Slang. : HAMS
34
Bean: Fr. : FEVE
35
Early church pulpit. : AMBO
36
Opera name. : BORI
37
Hollywood name. : DESI
38
Bastard of ___, "Henry VI," Part 1. : ORLEANS
40
Indian princes. : RAJAHS
43
Pelage. : FUR
44
Fads. : RAGES
46
Cut. : GASHED
50
Eye: Comb. form. : OCULO
51
Dithyramb. : POEM
52
Type of interest: Abbr. : CPD
53
Storeroom. : BUTTERY
54
Best part. : YOLK
55
Actress on a cigar band. : LILLIANRUSSELL
59
Actor Chaney. : LON
60
"Where ___?" : AMI
61
Descend. : SINK
62
Hautboy. : OBOE
63
Knell. : TOLL
64
Admit. : CEDE
65
Role in "Hamlet." : LAERTES
67
Midge. : GNAT
68
Droop. : LOLL
69
Star facets. : PANES
70
Dug. : HOED
71
Part of a Shakespearean title. : CAESARAND
73
Constant. : FIRM
74
Conform. : ADAPT
76
Flatfish. : DABS
77
Presage. : BODE
78
Exhausted. : RUNDOWN
81
Bore. : TIRE
82
Withered. : SERE
83
Associate. : ALLY
84
Suffuse with genial heat. : BASK
85
Greek letter. : RHO
86
Bobstay or Deadeye. : TAR
87
Lady Peel. : BEATRICELILLIE
90
"His acts being seven ___." : AGES
91
Incipient. : INITIAL
93
Speck. : DOT
94
Type of light. : NEON
95
Odd job. : CHARE
96
Barrack in a garrison town. : CASERN
97
Smallest. : MINIM
99
Dynamite's kin. : TNT
100
Lent. : LOANED
101
Oil-yielding shrubs. : CROTONS
103
Hebrew dray measure. : EPHA
105
Prosodic foot. : IAMB
106
A touch. : DASH
109
Edible shell. : CONE
110
Indian. : CREE
111
Upon. : ONTO
112
Health resort. : SPA
115
Branch of the service: Abbr. : OTC
116
Hollywood name. : LANA
117
Camus title (with "The"). : FALL
118
Twinge. : ACHE
119
Unbend. : THAW
120
Emlyn Williams drama (with "The"). : CORNISGREEN
123
Star of 23 Across. : VICTORMOORE
126
One of Frohman's stars. : MAUDEADAMS
127
Vehicle for 42 Down. : IAMACAMERA
128
Diminish front: Mil. : PLOY
129
Combining form for Mars. : AREO
130
Pung. : SLED
131
In case. : LEST
Down
1
Name in an O'Neill title. : JONES
2
Arm bone. : ULNA
3
Initials on a sheriff's writ, "not found." : NEI
4
Certain poker cards. : OPENERS
5
Species of iris. : ORRIS
6
Fuss. : STIR
7
Short time, for short. : SEC
8
Theatres of a sort. : ARENAS
9
Canines. : CHOWS
10
Raise aloft. : HEFT
11
High: Mus. : ALT
12
Repairs a pump. : REHEELS
13
1938 vehicle for the Lunts. : THESEAGULL
14
Time between acts. : WAIT
15
Affirmatives. : AYS
16
Earthquake. : SEISM
17
Moslem judge. : CADI
18
Greek coins. : OBOLI
20
Pluck. : NERVE
21
Parvenu's cousin. : SNOB
22
Ready. : FIT
24
Girl's name, for short. : GLO
28
Turkish title. : EMIR
32
London square. : SOHO
33
Namesakes of Leontes' wife. : HERMIONES
34
Half of a famous theatrical duo. : FREDSTONE
35
Helper: Abbr. : ASST
36
Thwart. : BALK
37
Action in Act V, "Hamlet." : DUEL
38
Gay-Pay-Oo. : OGPU
39
Countrywide: Abbr. : NATL
40
"The ___ Family." : ROYAL
41
N. M. pueblo near Enchanted Mesa. : ACOMA
42
Star of "The Lark." : JULIEHARRIS
43
People. : FOLK
45
Four roods. : ACRE
47
Heartbreaker of the 1920's. : HELENMORGAN
48
Disintegrate. : ERODE
49
Units of force. : DYNES
51
Trifles. : PINS
53
1/3 of a Van Druten title. : BELL
55
German song. : LIED
56
Arabian garments. : ABAS
57
Famous person. : NOTABLE
58
All ___ out. : SOLD
61
Printer's term. : STET
64
Queen or King. : CARD
66
Lanyard. : ROPE
67
Mantle for Shylock. : GABERDINE
68
"___ Dark." : LADYINTHE
69
Flower. : PINK
71
"The Apple ___." : CART
72
Brioche. : ROLL
73
Anneal. : FUSE
74
Spot for toys, à la Hellman. : ATTIC
75
A Barrymore. : DIANA
76
Pine board. : DEAL
78
Dramatic triumph of 1922. : RAIN
79
The place (of an event). : WHERE
80
Pried. : NOSED
82
See 1 Across. : SEANOCASEY
83
Part of a play. : ACTI
84
Smutch. : BLOT
87
Whirring sound. : BIRR
88
Electrified particles. : IONS
89
Singer Horne. : LENA
90
Gregory Peck role. : AHAB
92
Cal ___. : TECH
95
Popular singer. : COMO
97
Genus of mints. : MONARDA
98
Blackbird. : MERL
100
Sideways. : LATERAL
102
Friendly Islands. : TONGA
104
Skeletal part. : PELVIS
105
___ signo vinces. : INHOC
106
Disney dwarf. : DOC
107
Bit. : ATOM
108
Bit. : SCRAP
110
Nova Scotian cape. : CANSO
111
Group of eight. : OCTAD
112
Scanty. : SHORT
113
Kind of rubber. : PARA
114
Reverence. : AWE
116
Venetian beach. : LIDO
117
Wife: Law. : FEME
118
Peak. : ACME
119
Digits. : TOES
121
Not any: Law. : NUL
122
Concha. : EAR
124
Adjective suffix. : IAL
125
___ Butterfly. : MME

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 10 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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