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Bernice Gordon
New York Times, Wednesday, April 7, 1954
53-Down : Wax.
Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 W | 2 A | 3 G | 4 E | 5 L | 6 E | 7 T | 8 I | 9 N | 10 S | 11 P | 12 O | 13 T |
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14 A | G | R | A | 15 A | L | I | V | E | 16 T | A | L | E |
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17 R | O | I | S | 18 B | E | L | O | W | 19 E | L | A | N |
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20 M | O | N | T | 21 G | O | M | E | R | Y | 22 C | L | I | F | T |
23 S | A | R | I | 24 E | E | L | ||||||||
25 S | 26 T | 27 A | I | R | S | 28 C | 29 H | A | R | A | 30 D | 31 E | 32 S |
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33 C | I | N | D | Y | 34 H | A | R | T | 35 E | R | I |
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36 R | A | G | E | 37 B | 38 L | E | S | S | 39 A | V | O | N |
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40 A | R | E | 41 J | A | Y | S | 42 S | L | I | D | E |
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43 P | E | R | 44 C | A | L | E | S | 45 D | U | L | L | E | S |
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46 O | I | L | 47 B | A | S | E | ||||||||
48 M | 49 A | 50 R | I | L | Y | 51 N | 52 D | I | M | A | G | 53 G | 54 I | 55 O |
56 O | R | A | L | 57 H | E | A | L | S | 58 E | R | N | A |
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59 A | M | I | E | 60 O | L | I | G | O | 61 R | O | K | S |
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62 B | A | N | D | 63 O | L | S | E | N | 64 S | W | A | T |
© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,744
Across
1
Carry on. : WAGE
5
Admit. : LETIN
10
Locality. : SPOT
14
Where the Pearl Mosque is. : AGRA
15
Full of vigor. : ALIVE
16
Yarn. : TALE
17
French kings. : ROIS
18
Unworthy of. : BELOW
19
Dash. : ELAN
20
Cinema's Private Prewitt. : MONTGOMERYCLIFT
23
Eastern garment. : SARI
24
Elver. : EEL
25
Companionway. : STAIRS
28
Guessing games. : CHARADES
33
Girl's nickname. : CINDY
34
Playwright Moss. : HART
35
Silkworm. : ERI
36
Vogue. : RAGE
37
Wish well to. : BLESS
39
Town in Connecticut. : AVON
40
Exist. : ARE
41
Birds. : JAYS
42
Command to Kelly. : SLIDE
43
Fine cotton fabrics. : PERCALES
45
Member of Ike's Cabinet. : DULLES
46
Product of Texas. : OIL
47
Cosmetic foundation. : BASE
48
Popular newlywed. : MARILYNDIMAGGIO
56
Of speech sounds. : ORAL
57
Restores. : HEALS
58
Singer Berger. : ERNA
59
French girl friend. : AMIE
60
Few: Comb. form. : OLIGO
61
Rhee's soldiers. : ROKS
62
Range of frequencies. : BAND
63
Johnson's partner. : OLSEN
64
Sock. : SWAT
Down
1
Favorite Springs of F. D. R. : WARM
2
Baby talk. : AGOO
3
Cheerful look. : GRIN
4
Where Al Smith grew up. : EASTSIDE
5
Moves slowly and with difficulty. : LABORS
6
Oleoresin. : ELEMI
7
Mah-jongg piece. : TILE
8
Man's name. : IVOR
9
Famous "Eve." : NEWYEARS
10
Actress Adler. : STELLA
11
Ancient language of India. : PALI
12
Haakon's heir. : OLAF
13
Big top. : TENT
21
Well-known first name in Hollywood. : GARY
22
Important paper: Abbr. : CERT
25
Junk. : SCRAP
26
Duchesse's coronet. : TIARE
27
Wrath. : ANGER
28
Game of skill. : CHESS
29
___ been. : HAS
30
Chop fine and season. : DEVIL
31
Disintegrate slowly. : ERODE
32
Mathematical ratios. : SINES
37
Exaggerated publicity. : BALLYHOO
38
Lixivium. : LYE
39
Those who make assertions. : ALLEGERS
41
The Tombs, for example. : JAIL
42
Capital of ancient Elam. : SUSA
44
Moved in a winding course. : COILED
45
Dark purple plum. : DAMSON
47
Lower part of a hull. : BILGE
48
Ancient nation near Dead Sea. : MOAB
49
"___ virumque cano." : ARMA
50
April phenomenon. : RAIN
51
Dickens heroine. : NELL
52
Platform. : DAIS
53
Wax. : GROW
54
First word of a Durante song. : INKA
55
Tobacco kiln. : OAST
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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