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Cecil McCormick
New York Times, Monday, February 24, 1975
7-Down : Function of a prism
Author:
Cecil McCormick
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Cecil McCormick has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 B | 2 A | 3 S | 4 E | 5 M | 6 A | 7 R | 8 U | 9 H | 10 O | 11 L | 12 A |
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13 O | R | T | S | 14 E | A | T | E | N | 15 A | G | E | R |
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16 S | A | L | T | 17 G | U | L | F | S | 18 T | R | E | A | M |
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19 C | H | A | R | 20 T | E | D | 21 R | O | O | T | E | R | S |
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22 W | E | I | R | 23 H | A | U | T | E | ||||||
24 M | 25 O | R | A | L | 26 N | A | C | R | E | 27 G | 28 A | 29 B |
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30 A | R | E | T | E | 31 A | L | T | E | R | 32 R | N | A |
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33 C | A | N | S | 34 A | V | O | I | D | 35 C | E | I | L |
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36 E | T | C | 37 S | L | I | G | O | 38 P | L | A | T | E |
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39 S | E | E | 40 H | A | G | E | N | 41 R | E | T | A | R |
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42 P | E | C | A | N | 43 C | A | R | L | ||||||
44 S | 45 H | 46 I | E | D | A | T | 47 C | O | M | M | A | 48 N | 49 D |
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50 V | O | L | G | A | R | I | 51 V | E | R | 52 O | K | I | E |
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53 E | L | L | A | 54 T | O | A | N | D | 55 N | E | N | E |
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56 N | E | S | S | 57 E | N | N | A | 58 T | S | A | R |
© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,326
Across
1
Ignoble : BASE
5
Japanese ship name : MARU
9
Hailing cry : HOLA
13
Scraps : ORTS
14
Moth-___ : EATEN
15
Teen-___ : AGER
16
Arizona river : SALT
17
River in the sea : GULFSTREAM
19
Mapped : CHARTED
21
Fans : ROOTERS
22
Fish dam : WEIR
23
Terre ___ : HAUTE
24
Kind of victory : MORAL
26
Button material : NACRE
27
Chatter : GAB
30
Mountain spur : ARETE
31
Change : ALTER
32
Acid initials : RNA
33
Roadside litter components : CANS
34
Shun : AVOID
35
Plaster : CEIL
36
Catchall abbr. : ETC
37
Irish county : SLIGO
38
Dinner or home : PLATE
39
Call on : SEE
40
Golfer Walter : HAGEN
41
Mend the roof : RETAR
42
Kind of pie : PECAN
43
Sandburg : CARL
44
Reacted, as a horse : SHIEDAT
47
Part of S.A.C. : COMMAND
50
Caspian feeder : VOLGARIVER
52
Depression figure : OKIE
53
Miss Cinders : ELLA
54
___ fro : TOAND
55
Hawaiian bird : NENE
56
Headland : NESS
57
Sicilian city : ENNA
58
Ruler : TSAR
Down
1
Pear : BOSC
2
Irish exclamation : ARAH
3
North American river : STLAWRENCE
4
True copies, in law : ESTREATS
5
Miss Muller : MAUD
6
Ocean: Abbr. : ATL
7
Function of a prism : REFRACTION
8
Still sweet, as milk : UNSOURED
9
Author Bret : HARTE
10
Curved molding : OGEE
11
King or Edward : LEAR
12
Munitions : ARMS
14
German river : EGER
18
One who carries : TOTER
20
Floor material : TILE
23
Iodine or chlorine : HALOGEN
24
Old weapons : MACES
25
Speak at length : ORATE
26
Pilot's concern : NAVIGATION
27
Famous quintet : GREATLAKES
28
Miss Bryant : ANITA
29
Hay machine : BALER
34
Menu choice : ALACARTE
35
Fulton's creation : CLERMONT
37
___ tear for : SHEDA
38
Junior's transport : PRAM
42
Remoras : PEGAS
43
Heavy twine : CORD
44
Swedish boy's name : SVEN
45
Loop or golf : HOLE
46
Misfortunes : ILLS
47
Roman meal : CENA
48
Miss Foch : NINA
49
Game animal : DEER
51
Heflin : VAN
Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 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.