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Brice Metcalfe
Brice Metcalfe

New York Times, Monday, February 12, 1962

5-Down : Sprung.

Author:
Brice Metcalfe
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 83, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9 Grid has duplicate clues.
Brice Metcalfe has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,595
Across
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Navy amphibian. : LST
4
Birdcalls. : CAWS
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___ de chambre. : VALETS
14
___ Jima. : IWO
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Scope. : AREA
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Ancient Hispania. : IBERIA
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Lincoln ___. : MEMORIAL
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Luscious. : CREAMY
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Lincoln, ___. : NEBRASKA
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French pastry. : TARTES
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Lincoln ___. : STEFFENS
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Cries of surprise. : OHS
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Chemical suffix. : ENE
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Brother. : FRA
26
Subside. : EBB
29
Vaults. : LEAPS
33
Device for measuring saltiness. : SALIMETER
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Trees yielding cork. : OAKS
37
Lichen genus. : USNEA
38
Nothing: Sp. : NADA
39
A quality of new bills. : CRISPNESS
41
" ... gang aft ___." : AGLEY
42
Lincoln's ___, London. : INN
43
Weight units: Abbr. : LBS
44
Biddy. : HEN
46
Medieval French poem. : LAI
47
Stanzas. : STROPHES
52
Where Athens was. : ATTICA
55
Aaron Copland's "A Lincoln ___." : PORTRAIT
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Lincoln's father. : THOMAS
57
"Three Men ___." : ONAHORSE
58
So far. : TODATE
59
Plexus. : RETE
60
A kind of rose. : TEA
61
Washed, as clothes. : SUDSED
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Royal title. : TSAR
63
Purpose. : END
Down
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Portrays. : LIMNS
2
Piece of candy. : SWEET
3
Grave: Fr. : TOMBE
4
Decanters. : CARAFES
5
Sprung. : ARISEN
6
Faults. : WEAKNESSES
7
Rooms: Sp. : SALAS
8
Novelist Lincoln. : VICTORIA
9
Postmaster Lincoln. : ABRAHAM
10
Sly looks. : LEERS
11
He was: Lat. : ERAT
12
Occasion. : TIME
13
Recites. : SAYS
18
Small fish. : ORF
25
Portraitist's color effects. : FLESHTONES
26
Relative of etc. : ETAL
27
English historian. : BEDE
28
Harsh sound. : BRAY
29
Places. : LOCI
30
Get. : EARN
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Similar. : AKIN
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Epistolary abbreviation. : PSS
34
Reply: Abbr. : ANS
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Where Lincolnshire is: Abbr. : ENG
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Fair. : UNBIASED
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Mollify. : PLACATE
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One more. : ANOTHER
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List of mistakes with corrections. : ERRATA
46
Certain beans. : LIMAS
47
Fun. : SPORT
48
Type of athlete. : PRO
49
American author. : HARTE
50
Iron: Ger. : EISEN
51
Stand one in good ___. : STEAD
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Professional men: Abbr. : ATTS
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Biblical pronoun. : THOU
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Lincoln's father-in-law. : TODD

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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