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Helen Smathers
New York Times, Thursday, May 22, 1958
56-Down : Undergraduates' mentor.
Author:
Helen Smathers
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. Grid has duplicate clues.
Helen Smathers has 13 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 O | 2 L | 3 A | 4 V | 5 J | 6 E | 7 L | 8 L | 9 S | 10 T | 11 H | 12 A | 13 W |
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14 T | U | N | E | 15 I | L | I | A | C | 16 R | O | S | E |
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17 O | N | T | H | 18 E | M | A | R | C | H | 19 A | R | A | B |
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20 S | T | E | E | D | S | 21 R | E | U | 22 N | I | O | N | S |
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23 M | E | O | 24 W | 25 S | M | E | L | L | ||||||
26 I | 27 M | 28 P | E | N | N | E | 29 S | 30 A | S | S | O | 31 R | 32 T |
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33 M | O | R | N | S | 34 B | U | 35 R | N | T | 36 G | A | R |
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37 P | O | E | T | 38 L | E | M | O | N | 39 S | I | T | E |
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40 E | S | S | 41 B | U | R | M | A | 42 B | A | S | T | E |
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43 L | E | S | 44 S | O | N | 45 A | S | 46 H | A | N | T | I | S |
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47 W | H | I | C | 48 H | 49 T | O | L | D | ||||||
50 S | 51 H | O | E | S | H | O | 52 P | 53 N | E | B | 54 B | 55 E | 56 D |
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57 P | U | M | A | 58 I | R | E | 59 N | E | D | U | N | N | E |
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60 O | M | A | R | 61 N | A | P | E | S | 62 R | A | N | A |
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63 T | E | N | S | 64 G | L | O | A | T | 65 G | I | A | N |
© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,250
Across
1
Successor to King Haakon. : OLAV
5
Crystallizes, as plans: Colloq. : JELLS
10
Melt. : THAW
14
Berlin specialty. : TUNE
15
Of the hip bone. : ILIAC
16
Dorothy Perkins. : ROSE
17
Advancing steadily. : ONTHEMARCH
19
Saud subject. : ARAB
20
Relatives of palfreys. : STEEDS
21
"Long-time-no-see" affairs. : REUNIONS
23
Feline call. : MEOW
25
One of the senses. : SMELL
26
Zoological term for the penguins. : IMPENNES
30
Classify. : ASSORT
33
Dawns: Poetic. : MORNS
34
___ sienna (dark brown). : BURNT
36
Needlefish. : GAR
37
Robert Penn Warren, for example. : POET
38
Thorny fruit tree. : LEMON
39
Location. : SITE
40
Letter. : ESS
41
Irrawaddy country. : BURMA
42
Sew loosely. : BASTE
43
Student's concern. : LESSON
45
Gold Coast natives. : ASHANTIS
47
Every ___ way. : WHICH
49
Reported. : TOLD
50
Type of store. : SHOESHOP
53
Having a beak. : NEBBED
57
Member of the cat family. : PUMA
58
U. N. delegate. : IRENEDUNNE
60
Persian name. : OMAR
61
Backs of necks. : NAPES
62
Frog genus. : RANA
63
Numbers. : TENS
64
Gaze with malicious pleasure. : GLOAT
65
Part of Menotti's name. : GIAN
Down
1
Siouan Indians. : OTOS
2
Star of "The Visit." : LUNT
3
___ bellum. : ANTE
4
Deeply felt. : VEHEMENT
5
___ weed, a tall coarse annual. : JIMSON
6
Note of Guido's scale. : ELA
7
Well-known railroad: Abbr. : LIRR
8
Ornamental braids. : LACES
9
German composer. : SCHUMANN
10
Forms a wake behind. : TRAILS
11
Watchmaker. : HOROLOGIST
12
Wise ___ owl. : ASAN
13
Textile fabrics on looms. : WEBS
18
Former occupants of 10 Downing Street. : EDENS
22
Haunt. : NEST
24
German composer. : WEBER
26
Drive. : IMPEL
27
Yankee Skowron's nickname. : MOOSE
28
Worker in the city room. : PRESSWOMAN
29
___ cum laude. : SUMMA
31
Small weight of India. : RATTI
32
Joyce Kilmer subject. : TREES
35
Barbecue. : ROAST
38
Eating. : LUNCHING
39
Authority on Lincoln. : SANDBURG
41
Wood: Fr. : BOIS
42
Bundled. : BALED
44
Clips. : SHEARS
46
Frank and open. : HONEST
48
Of an hour. : HORAL
50
Recognize: Colloq. : SPOT
51
Actor Cronyn. : HUME
52
Gourd. : PEPO
54
___ B'rith, Jewish fraternity. : BNAI
55
City of Sicily. : ENNA
56
Undergraduates' mentor. : DEAN
59
Educational group. : NEA
Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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