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W. E. Jones
New York Times, Saturday, March 5, 1955
12-Down : Star of "The Wisteria Trees."
Author:
W. E. Jones
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.25, Missing: { J Q U W X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 83, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
W. E. Jones has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 P | 2 R | 3 E | 4 S | 5 S | 6 A | 7 G | 8 E | 9 N | 10 T | 11 S | 12 H | 13 O | 14 F |
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15 R | E | S | T | O | R | A | T | I | O | N | 16 E | R | A |
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17 E | S | S | E | N | T | I | A | L | L | Y | 18 L | L | D |
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19 P | T | A | 20 O | I | L | 21 S | E | D | 22 L | E | Y | S |
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23 E | R | S | 24 D | E | A | N | ||||||||
25 C | 26 O | 27 L | L | A | T | 28 E | 29 N | O | R | T | H | 30 E | 31 R |
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32 E | V | I | L | 33 I | T | 34 S | A | 35 H | A | V | E |
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36 D | A | C | E | 37 C | H | A | R | 38 M | 39 E | Y | E | D |
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40 A | T | E | N | 41 O | C | R | A | 42 R | E | N | D |
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43 R | E | N | D | 44 E | 45 R | S | 46 A | R | 47 R | E | S | T | S |
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48 T | E | L | E | 49 I | E | R | ||||||||
50 T | 51 R | I | R | E | M | 52 E | 53 M | A | B | 54 C | 55 A | 56 B |
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57 A | H | A | 58 C | A | R | 59 D | I | N | A | 60 L | A | T | E |
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61 P | E | T | 62 T | R | I | E | N | N | I | A | L | L | Y |
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63 S | E | E | 64 S | K | A | N | E | A | T | E | L | E | S |
© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,076
Across
1
Busy men on Broadway. : PRESSAGENTS
12
Courtyard: German. : HOF
15
Period in English history. : RESTORATION
16
Epoch. : ERA
17
Intrinsically. : ESSENTIALLY
18
College degree. : LLD
19
School group. : PTA
20
Natural resource. : OIL
21
Joe and Amelia of "Vanity Fair." : SEDLEYS
23
Common suffixes. : ERS
24
Jerry Lewis' partner. : DEAN
25
Verify, as the make-up of a book. : COLLATE
29
Wind blowing south. : NORTHER
32
Satan's work. : EVIL
33
"___ Lovely Day Today." : ITSA
35
Experience. : HAVE
36
Golden shiner. : DACE
37
Allure. : CHARM
39
Stared at. : EYED
40
Amenhotep's symbol. : ATEN
41
Vegetable. : OCRA
42
Tear. : REND
43
Performs. : RENDERS
46
Stops. : ARRESTS
48
Part of TV. : TELE
49
Adjective suffix. : IER
50
Galley. : TRIREME
53
Queen ___. : MAB
54
Part of a motor truck. : CAB
57
Eureka! : AHA
58
High church office. : CARDINALATE
61
Especial, in a humorous sense. : PET
62
Happening every third year. : TRIENNIALLY
63
Think over. : SEE
64
One of New York's Finger Lakes. : SKANEATELES
Down
1
Part of speech: Abbr. : PREP
2
Take a siesta. : REST
3
She: Italian. : ESSA
4
Sault ___ Marie. : STE
5
Mexican state adjoining Arizona. : SONORA
6
Done skillfully. : ARTISTIC
7
___ Borden, inventor of evaporated milk. : GAIL
8
Greek letter. : ETA
9
Norwegian name. : NILS
10
City on the Tagus. : TOLEDO
11
Secy. of the Treasury, 1946-53. : SNYDER
12
Star of "The Wisteria Trees." : HELENHAYES
13
Paris airport. : ORLY
14
Hobbies. : FADS
22
Old-fashioned shaver. : LATHERER
23
Louisiana Senator. : ELLENDER
25
Tree. : CEDAR
26
Egg-shaped. : OVATE
27
Authorized practitioner. : LICENTIATE
28
Character of a group. : ETHOS
29
Timber tree. : NARRA
30
Program item. : EVENT
31
Makes tidy: Dial. : REDDS
34
Indian tribe. : SAC
38
Girl's name. : MARIANNA
44
Chooses. : ELECTS
45
Comment. : REMARK
47
Put on another hellgrammite. : REBAIT
50
Spigots. : TAPS
51
80-year-old President. : RHEE
52
Silkworm. : ERIA
53
Pronoun. : MINE
54
Convoke. : CALL
55
Tamarisk salt tree. : ATLE
56
Rulers of Tunis. : BEYS
59
Room. : DEN
60
New Guinea port. : LAE
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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