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Walt Clark
New York Times, Saturday, March 31, 1962
8-Down : After: Fr.
Author:
Walt Clark
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Walt Clark has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 R | 2 U | 3 S | 4 K | 5 I | 6 N | 7 B | 8 A | 9 T | 10 M | 11 A | 12 N | |||
13 E | N | C | I | N | A | 14 S | 15 U | P | R | I | S | E | 16 S |
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17 G | R | E | N | A | D | E | 18 D | R | E | S | S | U | P |
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19 R | A | N | 20 I | M | 21 A | G | E | S | 22 U | T | E |
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23 E | V | E | 24 B | R | I | B | E | S | 25 R | A | R | A |
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26 T | E | R | 27 G | A | 28 N | E | T | 29 S | E | G | A | R |
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30 L | Y | R | I | 31 C | A | L | 32 B | E | V | E | L | S |
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33 U | L | A | R | 34 M | I | T | E | |||||||
35 C | 36 R | 37 I | N | E | D | 38 W | A | N | T | A | 39 D | 40 S | ||
41 H | E | N | T | Y | 42 C | A | R | 43 E | L | A | T | 44 E |
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45 O | D | A | S | 46 P | O | R | K | 47 E | R | 48 C | A | M |
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49 K | A | N | 50 B | U | M | P | E | R | 51 O | R | B |
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52 E | P | I | 53 C | U | R | E | 54 T | E | 55 N | 56 S | I | L | E |
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57 R | E | T | I | R | E | D | 58 S | C | O | O | T | E | R |
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59 S | Y | D | N | E | Y | 60 T | R | Y | S | T | S |
© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,642
Across
1
Famous art critic. : RUSKIN
7
British officer's servant. : BATMAN
13
Common live oaks. : ENCINAS
15
Ascends. : UPRISES
17
War weapon. : GRENADE
18
Put on one's best. : DRESSUP
19
Hank of twine. : RAN
20
Counterparts. : IMAGES
22
Indian. : UTE
23
Girl's name. : EVE
24
Hush money. : BRIBES
25
___ avis. : RARA
26
Backs of animals. : TERGA
28
Trap. : NET
29
Creator of Popeye. : SEGAR
30
Songlike. : LYRICAL
32
Angles. : BEVELS
33
Relating to: Suffix. : ULAR
34
Tiny tot. : MITE
35
Maned, in heraldry. : CRINED
38
Classified items. : WANTADS
41
Author of boys' books. : HENTY
42
Elevator cage. : CAR
43
Lift up. : ELATE
45
Harem rooms. : ODAS
46
Pig ready for market. : PORKER
48
River into the Ouse. : CAM
49
State: Abbr. : KAN
50
Auto part. : BUMPER
51
Celestial body. : ORB
52
Gourmet. : EPICURE
54
Ductile. : TENSILE
57
Emeritus. : RETIRED
58
Boy's speedster. : SCOOTER
59
City in Australia. : SYDNEY
60
Secret meetings. : TRYSTS
Down
1
Deplore. : REGRET
2
Solve. : UNRAVEL
3
Jo Mielziner's specialty. : SCENERY
4
Of the same nature. : KIN
5
Needle ___ haystack. : INA
6
Lowest point. : NADIR
7
Finance plan. : BUDGET
8
After: Fr. : APRES
9
Three, in Spain. : TRES
10
Bad: Prefix. : MIS
11
Mollify. : ASSUAGE
12
Achromatic. : NEUTRAL
14
Student group. : SEMINAR
16
Weapons. : SPEARS
21
Man's name meaning "vanity." : ABEL
24
London's Old ___. : BAILEY
25
Exhibit. : REVEAL
27
Salt-water fish. : GRUNTS
29
Dog. : SETTER
31
No gentleman. : CAD
32
Storage crib. : BIN
34
Chain stores. : MARKETS
35
Narrow fur piece. : CHOKER
36
Orangutans. : REDAPES
37
Foolish remark. : INANITY
38
Distort. : WARP
39
Burma gangsters. : DACOITS
40
Budding movie personality. : STARLET
42
Broadway offering. : COMEDY
44
Still warm memories, figuratively. : EMBERS
46
Kind of soup. : PUREE
47
Build. : ERECT
50
Flame. : BURN
53
Spanish hero. : CID
55
Direction: Abbr. : NOR
56
Sauce. : SOY
Answer summary:
1 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.