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Arthur Schulman
Arthur Schulman

New York Times, Saturday, May 31, 1969

13-Down : Part of handwriting on the wall.

Author:
Arthur Schulman
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J Z }, Scrabble score: 297 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5 Grid has duplicate clues.
Arthur Schulman has 80 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1969, The New York TimesNo. 7,231
Across
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Menu listing. : SQUABS
7
Team. : SIDE
11
Kind of view. : DIM
14
Divination. : AUGURY
15
French mathematician. : POINCARE
17
Good sense. : REASON
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Words on a menu. : AUGRATIN
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Container. : TUN
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Operatic prince et al. : IGORS
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Portly. : OBESE
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Fragrant. : REDOLENT
25
First Hebrew letter. : ALEPH
26
Genesis figure. : ESAU
27
Pipesmoker's tool. : TAMP
29
Hasty. : RASH
31
Partner of Scotch. : SODA
34
Inlet. : ARM
36
Shelter. : LEE
37
Household appliance. : SWEEPER
40
Apartment house employe. : DOORMAN
42
Napoleon's island refuge. : AIX
43
___ generis. : SUI
44
Preposition. : INTO
45
Navy boats. : LSTS
47
Gears' relatives. : COGS
49
Conceal. : MASK
53
Late billiard champ. : HOPPE
55
Dante. : ROSSETTI
58
More effective. : ABLER
59
Cyrus. : VANCE
60
Kind of mention: Abbr. : HON
61
Good ship. : LOLLIPOP
63
Tag on. : APPEND
65
"___ of Venus." : ONETOUCH
66
Hampton. : LIONEL
67
Foot: Prefix. : PED
68
Map abbrs. : RTES
69
Papal official. : DATARY
Down
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French writer. : SARTRE
2
Lines. : QUEUES
3
Where Entebbe is. : UGANDA
4
German preposition. : AUS
5
Cookbook direction. : BROIL
6
Irish playwright. : SYNGE
7
Lacedaemon. : SPARTA
8
Records of debt. : IOUS
9
Cutting remark. : DIG
10
Sign up. : ENROL
11
Tree. : DATEPALM
12
Locale of Isle of Man. : IRISHSEA
13
Part of handwriting on the wall. : MENE
16
Pole used in Gaelic games. : CABER
21
Rochester's waterfront. : ONTARIO
24
River in Yorkshire. : OUSE
25
Runway part. : APRON
28
U.S. President. : MADISON
30
Layer. : HEN
32
Harvest goddess. : OPS
33
Card. : DEUCE
35
Bon ___. : MOT
37
___ ammoniac. : SAL
38
Turkey part. : WISHBONE
39
Eulogized. : EXTOLLED
41
Apple. : ROME
46
Variety of wheat. : SPELT
48
Statistician's aids. : GRAPHS
50
Olympian. : ATHENA
51
Kitchen tool. : STONER
52
Gentle. : KINDLY
54
Antecedent. : PRIOR
56
Cookbook direction. : SCALD
57
Cuttlefish. : SEPIA
58
Skewed. : ALOP
59
Viva ___. : VOCE
62
Stock market maneuver. : PUT
64
Utensil. : POT

Answer summary:
5 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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