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Michael Dubin
New York Times, Thursday, February 20, 1964
48-Down : Cuban patriot of Spanish-American war.
Author:
Michael Dubin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F H J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Michael Dubin has 15 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 C | 2 O | 3 O | 4 P | 5 E | 6 R | 7 A | 8 T | 9 E | 10 D | 11 W | 12 I | 13 G | 14 S |
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15 A | R | T | I | C | U | L | A | T | E | 16 I | D | E | E |
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17 P | A | T | R | O | N | Y | M | I | C | 18 L | E | N | A |
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19 S | L | O | A | N | 20 S | T | A | 21 N | D | O | U | T |
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22 C | O | 23 P | 24 T | 25 E | N | O | W | |||||||
26 A | 27 N | Y | M | O | R | 28 E | 29 T | R | O | 30 I | 31 K | 32 A |
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33 D | V | I | 34 Y | E | A | R | 35 S | 36 M | O | R | A | L |
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37 P | E | T | 38 S | 39 T | I | R | O | 40 L | 41 D | A | R | C |
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42 T | R | E | A | 43 S | 44 T | E | L | I | 45 C | 46 D | E | O |
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47 S | T | R | I | N | 48 G | 49 D | E | E | R | 50 P | E | N | ||
51 L | I | A | 52 R | 53 D | U | E | L | |||||||
54 M | 55 A | 56 L | A | P | R | O | 57 P | 58 D | E | 59 B | 60 A | 61 R |
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62 A | R | O | W | 63 C | O | O | 64 R | 65 D | I | N | A | T | E |
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66 G | I | L | A | 67 I | M | P | O | R | T | U | N | E | S |
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68 I | D | L | Y | 69 A | S | S | E | S | S | M | E | N | T |
© 1964, The New York TimesNo. 5,317
Across
1
Acted jointly. : COOPERATED
11
Certain headgear. : WIGS
15
Clearly presented. : ARTICULATE
16
Notion: Fr. : IDEE
17
Family name. : PATRONYMIC
18
Asian river. : LENA
19
American painter. : SLOAN
20
Have distinction. : STANDOUT
22
Egyptian. : COPT
25
Sufficient: Poet. : ENOW
26
Hereafter. : ANYMORE
29
Vehicle drawn by three horses. : TROIKA
33
Year in Clovis I's time. : DVI
34
Ages. : YEARS
36
Fable's ending. : MORAL
37
Darlings. : PETS
39
Where Innsbruck is. : TIROL
41
Jeanne ___. : DARC
42
Officer: Abbr. : TREAS
44
Purposeful. : TELIC
46
Part of D. V. : DEO
47
Twine. : STRING
49
Animal corral. : DEERPEN
51
Perjurer. : LIAR
53
Contest between two foes. : DUEL
54
Character in "The Rivals." : MALAPROP
58
Stop. : DEBAR
62
Lined up. : AROW
63
Harmonize. : COORDINATE
66
River into the Colorado. : GILA
67
Supplicates. : IMPORTUNES
68
Carelessly. : IDLY
69
Evaluation. : ASSESSMENT
Down
1
Crests. : CAPS
2
Spoken. : ORAL
3
Eight, in Italy. : OTTO
4
Theft. : PIRACY
5
Management of finances. : ECONOMY
6
Conduct. : RUN
7
Oriental name. : ALY
8
Headgear. : TAMS
9
Eaglestone. : ETITE
10
Pour. : DECANT
11
Forest. : WILDWOOD
12
Idea: Prefix. : IDEO
13
Knee: Lat. : GENU
14
Ottoman. : SEAT
21
Average. : NORM
23
Dylan, for one. : POET
24
Characteristic. : TRAIT
26
Ward off. : AVERT
27
Saltpeter. : NITER
28
Made faux pas. : ERRED
30
Turkish decree. : IRADE
31
Danish girl's name. : KAREN
32
Small dog of tropical America. : ALCO
33
Affidavit makers: Abbr. : DPTS
35
Did a shoe repair job. : SOLED
38
Leave port. : SAILAWAY
40
Stead. : LIEU
43
Cut. : SNIP
45
Recognitions by name on films, TV programs, etc. : CREDITS
48
Cuban patriot of Spanish-American war. : GARCIA
50
Full assembly. : PLENUM
52
Home units. : ROOMS
54
Wise men. : MAGI
55
Sterile. : ARID
56
Take it easy. : LOLL
57
Light explosive sounds. : POPS
59
Ruin: Poet. : BANE
60
Solar disk. : ATEN
61
Sleep. : REST
64
Fish dish. : ROE
65
Ph.D.'s : DRS
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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