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Herman Keld
New York Times, Monday, February 23, 1959
44-Down : Wine and ___.
Author:
Herman Keld
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { Z }, Scrabble score: 303 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Herman Keld has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 F | 2 A | 3 M | 4 A | 5 B | 6 A | 7 T | 8 T | 9 S | 10 R | 11 A | 12 I | 13 D |
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14 O | M | A | R | 15 E | Q | U | I | P | 16 E | R | I | E |
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17 G | O | N | G | 18 L | U | R | E | R | 19 D | R | I | P |
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20 G | R | A | Y | 21 F | L | A | N | N | E | 22 L | S | U | I | T |
23 L | O | O | 24 S | E | A | T | ||||||||
25 Y | 26 E | 27 L | L | O | W | 28 E | 29 D | 30 S | C | O | 31 R | 32 C | 33 H |
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34 E | V | E | 35 D | E | W | E | 36 D | 37 S | N | O | R | E |
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38 S | E | A | 39 R | 40 D | E | M | U | 41 R | 42 E | D | E | R |
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43 E | R | R | E | 44 D | 45 S | O | L | O | 46 N | 47 E | D | O |
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48 S | Y | N | D | I | 49 C | 50 B | L | U | E | 51 M | O | O | N |
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52 S | N | A | 53 G | 54 L | E | U | ||||||||
55 W | 56 H | 57 I | T | E | C | O | 58 L | 59 L | A | R | J | 60 O | 61 B | 62 S |
63 H | I | L | A | 64 T | R | E | E | D | 65 I | R | A | E |
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66 A | V | E | R | 67 U | K | A | S | E | 68 K | L | A | N |
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69 T | E | X | T | 70 S | I | L | T | S | 71 S | Y | S | T |
© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,510
Across
1
Rumor, personified. : FAMA
5
Cotton wadded in sheets. : BATTS
10
Foray. : RAID
14
Caliph's name. : OMAR
15
Fit out. : EQUIP
16
Indian. : ERIE
17
Percussion instrument. : GONG
18
Inveigler. : LURER
19
Fall in globules. : DRIP
20
Uniform of a sort. : GRAYFLANNELSUIT
23
Card game. : LOO
24
Bench. : SEAT
25
Became golden. : YELLOWED
30
Parch by heat. : SCORCH
34
First lady. : EVE
35
Made moist. : DEWED
37
Nocturnal sound. : SNORE
38
Dry up. : SEAR
40
Hesitate. : DEMUR
42
German river. : EDER
43
Slipped. : ERRED
45
Lawmaker. : SOLON
47
Tokyo's former name. : EDO
48
Agent of a corporation. : SYNDIC
50
Once in a ___. : BLUEMOON
52
Jagged projection. : SNAG
54
Monetary unit of Rumania. : LEU
55
Objectives of wearers of 20 Across. : WHITECOLLARJOBS
63
"Eyes" of beans, peas, etc.: Bot. : HILA
64
Cornered: Colloq. : TREED
65
Dies ___, Judgment Day. : IRAE
66
Affirm. : AVER
67
Official decree. : UKASE
68
Kleagle's group. : KLAN
69
Schoolbook. : TEXT
70
Fills up with sand. : SILTS
71
Method: Abbr. : SYST
Down
1
Passepartout's fellow traveler. : FOGG
2
Love, in Spain. : AMOR
3
"Give a ___ horse he can ride ... " : MANA
4
County in Scotland. : ARGYLL
5
Roared. : BELLOWED
6
Decorator's color. : AQUA
7
Rotate. : TURN
8
Indeed!: Fr. : TIENS
9
Frolics. : SPREES
10
Arsenal in Alabama. : REDSTONE
11
Island group S. of New Guinea. : ARRU
12
IV. : IIII
13
Field of activity: Abbr. : DEPT
21
Rations. : FOOD
22
Resinous substances. : LACS
25
Certain replies. : YESES
26
All. : EVERY
27
Become aware of. : LEARN
28
Members of the flock. : EWES
29
Disband, as troops: Brit. colloq. : DEMOB
31
Cattle round-up. : RODEO
32
Set of opinions. : CREDO
33
Egret. : HERON
36
Uninteresting. : DULL
39
Fly-catching warbler. : REDSTART
41
Vocal flourishes. : ROULADES
44
Wine and ___. : DINE
46
___-do-well. : NEER
49
Plant of the desert. : CACTUS
51
Peasants of czarist Russia: Var. : MUJIKS
53
Novelist Maxim. : GORKI
55
Exclamation of surprise. : WHAT
56
Busy place. : HIVE
57
Evergreen oak. : ILEX
58
Loyal: Scot. : LEAL
59
"___ we forget." : LEST
60
Paris airfield. : ORLY
61
Sounds from the cote. : BAAS
62
Transmitted. : SENT
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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