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Arthur Schulman
New York Times, Saturday, June 10, 1967
9-Down : Croaker.
Author:
Arthur Schulman
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 312 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Arthur Schulman has 80 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
1 L | 2 E | 3 M | 4 A | 5 N | 6 B | 7 O | 8 F | 9 F | 10 N | 11 A | 12 R | 13 A |
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14 A | V | I | L | A | 15 O | N | E | R | 16 A | C | O | G |
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17 P | O | L | I | S | 18 X | E | N | O | 19 P | H | O | B | E |
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20 P | R | A | C | T | 21 I | C | E | 22 G | I | A | N | T | S |
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23 S | A | N | A | 24 C | A | Y | 25 S | 26 E | N | C | ||||
27 N | 28 Y | E | R | E | R | 29 E | 30 T | A | 31 M | 32 E |
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33 P | 34 O | 35 S | T | A | L | 36 D | I | S | 37 C | 38 G | I | S |
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39 F | R | E | E | W | A | 40 Y | 41 S | T | R | 42 A | U | S | S |
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43 C | A | T | 44 S | N | O | 45 B | 46 O | A | X | A | C | A |
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47 S | N | O | 48 W | 49 D | U | R | 50 A | N | G | O | ||||
51 N | E | 52 T | 53 R | E | N | I | 54 L | 55 I | 56 A | 57 M |
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58 A | 59 S | H | A | R | 60 P | 61 A | N | A | 62 C | O | N | D | A |
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63 S | L | A | V | E | L | 64 A | K | E | 65 A | T | L | A | S |
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66 T | A | L | E | 67 O | D | I | C | 68 P | L | A | N | S |
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69 O | W | L | S | 70 P | O | N | Y | 71 A | S | W | A | Y |
© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,510
Across
1
Lake of Geneva. : LEMAN
6
Big laugh, in theatrical slang. : BOFF
10
Honshu city. : NARA
14
Walled city of Spain. : AVILA
15
Unusual person. : ONER
16
Slip ... (make an error). : ACOG
17
Greek city-state. : POLIS
18
One unduly fearful of foreigners. : XENOPHOBE
20
Become perfect, perhaps. : PRACTICE
22
Ball team. : GIANTS
23
Yemeni capital. : SANA
24
Low islands. : CAYS
26
Stenographer's abbreviation. : ENC
27
President of new nation, Tanzania. : NYERERE
30
Unexciting. : TAME
33
Kind of card. : POSTAL
36
Record. : DISC
38
See 33 Down. : GIS
39
Road of a kind. : FREEWAY
41
Richard or Johann. : STRAUSS
43
Persian. : CAT
44
Uppity one. : SNOB
46
City east of Acapulco. : OAXACA
47
British writer. : SNOW
49
State or city of Mexico. : DURANGO
51
Gain. : NET
53
Italian painter. : RENI
54
Author O'Flaherty. : LIAM
58
Key. : ASHARP
61
Relative of the boa. : ANACONDA
63
Canada's Great ___. : SLAVELAKE
65
Mountain range of North Africa. : ATLAS
66
Narrative. : TALE
67
Of poetry. : ODIC
68
Schedules. : PLANS
69
Birds of prey. : OWLS
70
Pinto. : PONY
71
Moving back and forth. : ASWAY
Down
1
Kola Peninsula dwellers. : LAPPS
2
City in Portugal. : EVORA
3
Where "Il Duomo" is. : MILAN
4
Mediterranean port of Spain. : ALICANTE
5
American cartoonist. : NAST
6
Freight carrier. : BOXCAR
7
Like some jacks. : ONEEYED
8
Bailiwick for 9 Down. : FEN
9
Croaker. : FROG
10
Town in NE Massachusetts. : NAHANT
11
S. American peak. : ACONCAGUA
12
Man's name: Abbr. : ROBT
13
21 and others. : AGES
19
Dessert. : PIE
21
Island of the North Atlantic. : ICELAND
25
Indian titles. : SRIS
28
Swerves, as a ship. : YAWS
29
Where Tallinn is. : ESTONIA
31
Catchall abbreviation. : MISC
32
It, in Italy. : ESSA
33
Servicemen. : PFCS
34
City of Camus's "The Plague." : ORAN
35
University in New Jersey. : SETONHALL
37
Rugged cliff. : CRAG
40
Possessive pronoun. : YOUR
42
Mexican salamanders. : AXOLOTLS
45
Train. : BREAKIN
48
Fabric features. : WEAVES
50
City near Lyons. : ANNECY
52
Three, in Italy. : TRE
55
Family member. : INLAW
56
City in Turkey. : ADANA
57
Solid. : MASSY
58
Concerning. : ASTO
59
Vegetable dish. : SLAW
60
Dull sound. : PLOP
62
Cloak: Sp. : CAPA
64
Bustle. : ADO
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.