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Dorothea Bauer
New York Times, Thursday, February 16, 1967
45-Down : The basswood.
Author:
Dorothea Bauer
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { J V X Z }, Scrabble score: 307 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Dorothea Bauer has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 A | 2 B | 3 O | 4 A | 5 R | 6 D | 7 W | 8 A | 9 R | 10 M | 11 C | 12 P | 13 A |
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14 D | O | U | S | E | S | 15 A | W | E | A | 16 T | H | E | R |
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17 O | U | T | E | A | T | 18 P | A | T | C | H | I | E | R |
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19 T | B | A | R | 20 T | I | K | I | 21 I | D | L | E |
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22 B | I | O | 23 M | A | T | E | R | 24 S | E | E | S |
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25 A | Q | U | 26 A | 27 M | A | R | I | N | E | 28 S | 29 D | D | T |
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30 R | U | N | N | E | R | S | 31 S | M | O | 32 G | ||||
33 K | E | D | G | E | S | 34 E | U | R | 35 O | 36 P | 37 E |
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38 E | T | H | 39 S | 40 I | N | C | I | T | E | S |
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41 E | 42 P | 43 I | 44 S | M | A | 45 L | L | T | I | M | E | R | S |
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46 R | O | L | 47 F | 48 A | L | I | A | S | 49 M | I | A |
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50 E | T | L | E | 51 L | I | N | Y | 52 M | 53 A | P | O | |||
54 C | H | I | S | 55 E | L | E | D | 56 P | A | R | O | D | 57 Y |
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58 T | E | N | S | C | O | R | E | 59 S | C | O | R | I | A |
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60 S | R | I | 61 O | W | E | N | 62 T | H | W | A | C | K |
© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,396
Across
1
On. : ABOARD
7
Sympathetic. : WARM
11
Auditor. : CPA
14
Drenches. : DOUSES
15
To windward. : AWEATHER
17
Surpass, in a certain way. : OUTEAT
18
Less consistent in quality. : PATCHIER
19
Steel beam. : TBAR
20
"Kon ___." : TIKI
21
Vain. : IDLE
22
Life: Prefix. : BIO
23
Parent, British style. : MATER
24
Gets. : SEES
25
Gems. : AQUAMARINES
29
Finale for insects. : DDT
30
Olympic contestants. : RUNNERS
31
Big-city problem. : SMOG
33
Light anchors. : KEDGES
34
Common Market region. : EUROPE
38
Ordinal suffixes. : ETHS
40
Stirs up. : INCITES
41
Upon: Prefix. : EPI
44
Petty operators: Slang. : SMALLTIMERS
46
Viking name. : ROLF
48
Name of a kind. : ALIAS
49
My: It. : MIA
50
"Le Rouge ___ Noir." : ETLE
51
Full of streaks. : LINY
52
Small fish of S. Atlantic coast. : MAPO
54
Well-formed. : CHISELED
56
Take-off. : PARODY
58
Two hundred. : TENSCORE
59
Slag. : SCORIA
60
Title, in India. : SRI
61
Man's name. : OWEN
62
Heavy blow. : THWACK
Down
1
Pother. : ADO
2
Smart specialty shop. : BOUTIQUE
3
Heading for foreign parts. : OUTBOUND
4
On the blue. : ASEA
5
Kind of admiral. : REAR
6
Summer time: Abbr. : DST
7
North American deer. : WAPITI
8
Comes to. : AWAKENS
9
Withdrawals. : RETIREMENTS
10
Son of, among the Celts. : MAC
11
Rebuked. : CHIDED
12
Pared. : PEELED
13
Seizure. : ARREST
16
The thing here. : THIS
20
Old salts. : TARS
22
Cinchona. : BARK
23
Toasted goody. : MARSHMALLOW
26
Heavenly being: Fr. : ANGE
27
Convenes. : MEETS
28
Sans ___ (carefree). : SOUCI
32
Stern. : GRIM
35
"___! O mores!" : OTEMPORA
36
Intermittent. : PERIODIC
37
I in Italy. : ESSA
39
Saltcellar, at Maxim's. : SALIERE
40
"Now ___ me down to sleep ... " : ILAY
41
Puts up. : ERECTS
42
Commotion. : POTHER
43
Fighting ___ of football. : ILLINI
45
The basswood. : LINDEN
47
Heraldic band. : FESS
52
Unit of speed of sound. : MACH
53
In a line. : AROW
55
Echo: Sp. : ECO
56
Listen! : PST
57
Tibetan ox. : YAK
Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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