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Sara V. Tuckerman
New York Times, Thursday, February 20, 1975
51-Down : Tiber tributary
Author:
Sara V. Tuckerman
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Sara V. Tuckerman has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 L | 3 A | 4 V | 5 S | 6 A | 7 L | 8 E | 9 M | 10 B | 11 L | 12 U | 13 R |
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14 R | O | S | E | 15 A | L | O | M | A | 16 Y | U | R | I |
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17 I | O | T | A | 18 B | O | N | E | R | 19 G | L | I | B |
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20 M | I | L | 21 K | I | N | G | S | T | 22 O | O | L | S | ||
23 L | A | N | E | 24 I | A | N | ||||||||
25 F | 26 I | 27 L | O | S | E | 28 T | 29 I | N | S | E | 30 L | 31 E | 32 D |
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33 O | L | E | A | 34 O | I | M | E | E | 35 E | V | E |
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36 C | O | F | F | 37 E | 38 E | K | L | A | T | S | 39 C | H | E | S |
40 A | N | T | 41 S | N | I | E | S | 42 L | A | R | K |
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43 L | A | Y | 44 E | T | T | E | S | 45 S | 46 P | O | R | T | S |
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47 L | A | R | 48 A | M | A | T | ||||||||
49 T | 50 E | A | S | A | 51 N | 52 D | W | I | C | H | 53 E | 54 S | ||
55 P | U | L | P | 56 N | E | R | O | L | 57 I | N | C | 58 A |
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59 A | L | L | I | 60 C | R | A | K | E | 61 E | R | I | C |
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62 M | E | A | D | 63 E | A | G | E | R | 64 R | Y | O | T |
© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,322
Across
1
Balkan native : SLAV
5
"House of Seven Gables" site : SALEM
10
Indistinctness : BLUR
14
Stood : ROSE
15
Yellowish brown : ALOMA
16
Gagarin : YURI
17
Trifle : IOTA
18
Pull a ___ : BONER
19
Fluent : GLIB
20
Seats for certain maids : MILKINGSTOOLS
23
Byway : LANE
24
Fleming : IAN
25
Threadlike : FILOSE
28
Glittery : TINSELED
33
Olive genus : OLEA
34
Old cry of grief : OIMEE
35
Miss Arden : EVE
36
Some get-togethers : COFFEEKLATSCHES
40
Insect : ANT
41
Ship's-plank curves : SNIES
42
Frolic : LARK
43
Infants' outfits : LAYETTES
45
Newspaper section : SPORTS
47
Household god : LAR
48
Latin-lesson word : AMAT
49
Party fare : TEASANDWICHES
55
Kind of magazine : PULP
56
Perfume ingredient : NEROL
57
Cuzco native : INCA
59
"___ do is dream ... " : ALLI
60
Marsh bird : CRAKE
61
Blore of movies : ERIC
62
Honey drink : MEAD
63
Keen : EAGER
64
Peasant of India : RYOT
Down
1
___ Lanka : SRI
2
Impend : LOOM
3
___ spumante : ASTI
4
Lunch meat : VEALLOAF
5
Ancient Italian : SABINE
6
"One ___" : ALONE
7
Huey : LONG
8
Scottish uncles : EMES
9
Strict disciplinarian : MARTINET
10
Past : BYGONE
11
Soothe : LULL
12
U.S. novelist : URIS
13
Kind of roast : RIB
21
Dutch cupboard : KAS
22
Stopover spots : OASES
25
___ point (center of interest) : FOCAL
26
Miss Massey : ILONA
27
Baseball's Gomez : LEFTY
28
Game pieces : TILES
29
Miss Hogg and others : IMAS
30
Composer Franz : LEHAR
31
Chris of tennis : EVERT
32
Lecterns : DESKS
34
Steinbeck character : OKIE
37
These: Sp. : ESTAS
38
Charm : ENTRANCE
39
Dealer in menswear : CLOTHIER
44
Snake of a venomous family : ELAPID
45
Snapshot poser, often : SMILER
46
Soft shoe : PAC
48
Roused : AWOKE
49
Bulrush : TULE
50
Miss Fitzgerald : ELLA
51
Tiber tributary : NERA
52
Kind of race : DRAG
53
Certain king, to cockneys : ENRY
54
I know: Lat. : SCIO
55
Card game : PAM
58
Play part : ACT
Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.