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A. J. Santora
New York Times, Wednesday, March 28, 1962
29-Down : "Clean up" department.
Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.25, Missing: { G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
A. J. Santora has 185 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 68 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 C | 2 H | 3 I | 4 N | 5 O | 6 A | 7 S | 8 E | 9 A | 10 A | 11 D | 12 A | 13 M |
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14 R | A | N | O | N | 15 P | A | L | M | 16 L | U | L | U |
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17 I | N | A | N | E | 18 P | R | E | P | 19 L | A | S | S |
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20 C | O | C | O | A | 21 B | E | A | C | H | 22 S | L | O | T |
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23 K | I | T | 24 S | O | L | S | T | I | 25 C | E | ||||
26 I | 27 D | Y | L | L | 28 M | A | 29 S | 30 A | 31 I |
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32 L | 33 E | V | I | 34 D | A | 35 P | 36 H | 37 N | I | S | A | N | D |
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38 E | T | A | S | 39 E | N | S | U | E | 40 O | N | T | O |
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41 F | A | T | H | 42 E | R | T | I | M | E | 43 N | I | E | L |
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44 T | H | E | W | S | 45 I | D | 46 E | S | T | |||||
47 A | S | 48 S | 49 A | 50 I | L | E | D | 51 A | 52 M | 53 B |
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54 A | 55 M | 56 E | S | 57 A | C | C | I | D | E | 58 N | T | A | L |
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59 R | I | C | H | 60 I | T | E | A | 61 N | O | I | R | E |
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62 A | C | H | E | 63 D | O | N | T | 64 I | R | O | N | S |
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65 B | E | O | R | 66 A | R | T | E | 67 C | A | N | E | S |
© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,639
Across
1
Twilled cotton cloth. : CHINO
6
Sailing. : ASEA
10
"Man of red earth." : ADAM
14
Talked continuously. : RANON
15
Victory symbol. : PALM
16
Standout: Slang. : LULU
17
Empty. : INANE
18
___ school. : PREP
19
Miss. : LASS
20
The Canaveral scene. : COCOABEACH
22
Groove. : SLOT
23
Outfit. : KIT
24
Point on the sun's ecliptic. : SOLSTICE
26
Pastoral scene. : IDYLL
28
People of Kenya. : MASAI
32
Son of Jacob. : LEVI
34
___ Chloe. : DAPHNISAND
38
Greek letters. : ETAS
39
Come afterward. : ENSUE
40
Aware of: Slang. : ONTO
41
Old man with a scythe. : FATHERTIME
43
French marshal of 1867. : NIEL
44
Muscles. : THEWS
45
That is: Lat. : IDEST
47
Stormed. : ASSAILED
51
Envoy: Abbr. : AMB
54
Iowa State city. : AMES
57
Fortuitous. : ACCIDENTAL
59
Fertile. : RICH
60
Willow genus. : ITEA
61
Bête ___. : NOIRE
62
Long for. : ACHE
63
Relative of 4 Down. : DONT
64
Golf clubs. : IRONS
65
"To ___ not to be ... " : BEOR
66
"Vissi d'___," Puccini aria. : ARTE
67
Sticks. : CANES
Down
1
Muscle ailment. : CRICK
2
Tonkin's capital. : HANOI
3
Dissolve. : INACTIVATE
4
Admonition to a tot. : NONO
5
___ street (well-to-do). : ONEASY
6
Man in court. : APPELLANT
7
Namesakes of a Burnett heroine. : SARAS
8
Vote in. : ELECT
9
On both sides: Prefix. : AMPHI
10
"A Man For ___." : ALLSEASONS
11
Double. : DUAL
12
As well. : ALSO
13
Necessity. : MUST
21
More daring. : BOLDER
25
10th cen. date. : CMI
27
Kitchen appliance. : DISHWASHER
29
"Clean up" department. : SANITATION
30
Prefix used with room and date. : ANTE
31
Graven image. : IDOL
32
Departed. : LEFT
33
Greenland outpost. : ETAH
35
Greek letter. : PSI
36
Mortify. : HUMILIATE
37
Required. : NEEDED
42
Letter. : ESS
46
Like Paradise. : EDENIC
48
"You ___ mouthful." : SAIDA
49
Member of Equity. : ACTOR
50
___ sale, special bargain. : ICENT
52
Châlons' river. : MARNE
53
Wish well to. : BLESS
54
Horse. : ARAB
55
Disney characters. : MICE
56
___ chamber. : ECHO
58
Ibsen character. : NORA
Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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