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A. H. Drummond, Jr.
A. H. Drummond, Jr.

New York Times, Thursday, April 26, 1962

8-Down : Opera numbers.

Author:
A. H. Drummond, Jr.
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
A. H. Drummond, Jr. has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,668
Across
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June symbol. : ROSE
5
Lebanon seaport. : SAIDA
10
Decorate. : TRIM
14
Aleutian isle. : ATKA
15
World-weariness. : ENNUI
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Bit. : IOTA
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Party item. : NOISEMAKER
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Powdery earth. : DUST
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Fish container. : KETTLE
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Use with great effort. : STRAINAT
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Stratagem. : WILE
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Fathered. : SIRED
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Something often declared. : DIVIDEND
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___ wide (everywhere). : FARAND
33
Miss Dunne. : IRENE
34
Musical gymnastic. : TRILL
36
Neckpiece. : BOA
37
Lille's department. : NORD
38
Fowl. : GEESE
39
Carbon waste. : SOOT
40
Massachusetts cape. : ANN
41
Of hours. : HORAL
42
Mickey. : MOUSE
43
Atlas' astral daughters. : HYADES
45
Chased. : RANAFTER
47
Top of a wave. : CREST
49
Emporium. : MART
50
Sunday prohibitions. : BLUELAWS
53
Scene of decisive English battle, 1645. : NASEBY
57
Dancer Montez. : LOLA
58
Birthdays, for example. : MILESTONES
60
Cheese. : EDAM
61
French school. : ECOLE
62
Entr'___ : ACTE
63
Lean and sinewy. : WIRY
64
Cordelia's sister. : REGAN
65
Bartlett. : PEAR
Down
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High degree. : RANK
2
Indian. : OTOE
3
Part of a revue. : SKIT
4
Eurus. : EASTWIND
5
Mother of Dionysus. : SEMELE
6
Backward: Prefix. : ANA
7
The red and the black. : INKS
8
Opera numbers. : DUETS
9
Toy of a sort. : AIRRIFLE
10
More in order. : TIDIER
11
Indirect. : ROUNDABOUT
12
"___ boy!" : ITSA
13
N. T. book: Abbr. : MATT
18
Suppress. : ELIDE
22
Asiatic sea. : ARAL
24
Insert. : ENTER
26
Alice in Wonderland's kitten. : DINAH
27
Dramatic factor. : IRONY
28
Native speech. : VERNACULAR
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Melancholy: Poet. : DREAR
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Snare. : NOOSE
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Office device. : DATER
35
Moslems. : ISLAM
38
Light and filmy. : GOSSAMER
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Flatter: Colloq. : SOFTSOAP
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Spike of a sort. : HEEL
42
Corday's victim. : MARAT
44
Utterly delightful: Colloq. : DREAMY
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Norwegian arctic explorer. : NANSEN
48
Bis. : TWICE
50
Stormed. : BLEW
51
Italian city. : LODI
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Toil. : SLOG
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Noun suffix. : ENCE
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Second of a series. : BETA
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River to the North Sea. : YSER
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High note in old scale. : ELA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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