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Louise Earnest
New York Times, Thursday, February 15, 1962
31-Down : Letters.
Author:
Louise Earnest
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J K Q V }, Scrabble score: 297 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Louise Earnest has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 T | 2 A | 3 P | 4 E | 5 T | 6 A | 7 M | 8 S | 9 S | 10 T | 11 I | 12 R |
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13 T | O | N | A | L | 14 O | M | I | T | 15 O | R | L | O |
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16 A | R | I | S | E | 17 S | A | L | A | 18 D | D | A | Y | S |
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19 P | A | S | T | M | 20 A | S | T | E | R | S | 21 N | A | Y |
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22 S | H | E | P | 23 B | E | E | 24 T | O | 25 P | S | ||||
26 E | 27 X | O | D | U | 28 S | 29 S | A | P | 30 I | 31 D |
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32 S | 33 O | 34 A | R | E | D | 35 R | I | 36 F | 37 S | I | C | E |
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38 M | A | N | F | R | E | 39 D | 40 F | A | 41 N | T | R | E | E |
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42 E | T | T | E | 43 S | A | 44 W | 45 S | T | E | E | D | S |
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46 W | H | I | C | 47 H | 48 M | A | 49 N | C | H | U | ||||
50 P | T | A | 51 S | 52 R | Y | E | 53 R | 54 I | 55 O | 56 S |
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57 A | 58 H | A | 59 L | A | 60 M | B | A | S | 61 T | I | N | G | S |
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62 P | A | S | 63 T | O | R | A | L | S | 64 A | Z | U | R | E |
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65 T | I | T | O | 66 A | Y | E | S | 67 P | E | R | E | S |
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68 S | L | O | W | 69 N | O | R | A | 70 A | R | E | S |
© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,598
Across
1
Finishing line. : TAPE
5
Headgear. : TAMS
9
Use a muddler. : STIR
13
Of sound. : TONAL
14
Skip. : OMIT
15
Flat plinth. : ORLO
16
Originate. : ARISE
17
Youth. : SALADDAYS
19
Experts. : PASTMASTERS
21
Negative voter. : NAY
22
Farm dog's name. : SHEP
23
Sometime bonnet dweller. : BEE
24
A number 1. : TOPS
26
Departure. : EXODUS
29
Tasty. : SAPID
32
Rose. : SOARED
35
Hilly region of Morocco. : RIF
37
Six on a die. : SICE
38
Byron's tragic hero. : MANFRED
40
Kind of palm. : FANTREE
42
Diminutive suffix. : ETTE
43
Maxim. : SAW
45
Chargers. : STEEDS
46
Pronoun. : WHICH
48
17th century Asiatic. : MANCHU
50
Community groups. : PTAS
52
Farm crop. : RYE
53
Rivers: Sp. : RIOS
57
Exclamation. : AHA
59
Drubbings: Slang. : LAMBASTINGS
62
Bucolics. : PASTORALS
64
Cerulean. : AZURE
65
Josip Broz. : TITO
66
Some votes. : AYES
67
Certain Frenchmen. : PERES
68
Road sign. : SLOW
69
Ibsen character. : NORA
70
Olympian god. : ARES
Down
1
Scripture. : TORAH
2
Egyptian herb. : ANISE
3
Tense. : PASTPERFECT
4
Kind of school: Abbr. : ELEM
5
Thrown about. : TOSSED
6
Neophyte. : AMATEUR
7
" ... and he went a crooked ___." : MILE
8
Outset. : START
9
Sward. : SOD
10
Become known. : TRANSPIRE
11
There is: Fr. : ILYA
12
Cheerful. : ROSY
13
Camp signal. : TAPS
18
British decorations. : DSOS
20
Homes. : ABODES
25
Dairy apparatus. : PASTEURIZER
27
Dry: Prefix. : XER
28
Wife of Thor. : SIF
30
Glacé. : ICED
31
Letters. : DEES
32
Duck. : SMEW
33
Hippocratic ___. : OATH
34
Appetizer. : ANTIPASTO
36
Mussolini's symbol. : FASCES
39
Hoover or Norris. : DAM
41
To the ___ degree. : NTH
44
Redstart or yellowthroat. : WARBLER
47
Nimbus. : HALO
49
African lake: Var. : NYASSA
51
Type of plastic. : SARAN
54
Accustom. : INURE
55
Fairy tale characters. : OGRES
56
Compass points. : SSES
57
Classified listings: Abbr. : APTS
58
"___ to the Chief." : HAIL
60
Irish county. : MAYO
61
Bark cloth. : TAPA
63
Kind of rope. : TOW
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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