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Louise Earnest
New York Times, Wednesday, June 26, 1963
4-Down : Proofreader's marks.
Author:
Louise Earnest
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Louise Earnest has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 L | 2 A | 3 P | 4 S | 5 M | 6 E | 7 D | 8 S | 9 S | 10 M | 11 O | 12 G |
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13 A | B | U | T | 14 F | A | R | O | 15 C | E | I | B | A |
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16 G | R | E | E | 17 N | G | R | O | W | 18 O | R | L | O | P |
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19 S | A | R | T | O | 20 L | P | S | 21 L | I | K | E | S |
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22 M | I | S | L | 23 A | Y | S | 24 C | O | O | T | ||||
25 A | L | B | I | 26 N | O | S | 27 R | 28 O | 29 B |
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30 A | 31 B | 32 A | 33 S | 34 M | I | N | O | R | S | 35 C | A | L | E |
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36 C | A | M | P | 37 H | O | R | 38 N | O | I | S | I | E | R |
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39 E | A | S | T | I | N | D | 40 I | A | N | 41 A | N | O | N |
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42 D | S | T | 43 R | E | S | O | L | E | 44 S | |||||
45 E | 46 M | I | R | 47 N | I | T | W | 48 I | 49 T | 50 S | ||||
51 A | 52 P | R | O | N | 53 R | E | G | 54 A | V | O | I | 55 R |
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56 M | Y | D | O | G | 57 U | S | N | 58 O | T | I | N | T | O |
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59 B | R | A | S | S | 60 I | C | E | D | 61 E | G | I | S |
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62 S | O | M | E | 63 N | O | D | E | 64 S | A | N | S |
© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 5,078
Across
1
Washes against. : LAPS
5
Degrees in education. : MEDS
9
Not-so-fresh air. : SMOG
13
Border on. : ABUT
14
Card game. : FARO
15
Silk-cotton tree. : CEIBA
16
"___ the Lilacs," the "Oklahoma" story. : GREENGROW
18
Lowest deck of a ship. : ORLOP
19
Italian Renaissance painter. : SARTO
20
Records. : LPS
21
Preferences. : LIKES
22
Loses temporarily. : MISLAYS
24
Water birds. : COOT
25
White rabbits, for instance. : ALBINOS
27
___ Peter to pay Paul. : ROB
30
Down: Fr. : ABAS
34
One kind of five-finger exercise. : MINORSCALE
36
Useful substance from a tree. : CAMPHOR
38
More clamorous. : NOISIER
39
Javanese. : EASTINDIAN
41
Ever and ___. : ANON
42
April to October abbreviation. : DST
43
Repairs ties. : RESOLES
45
Moslem noble. : EMIR
47
Scatterbrains. : NITWITS
51
Pinafore. : APRON
53
Military unit: Abbr. : REG
54
Well-known French infinitive. : AVOIR
56
"Love me, love ___." : MYDOG
57
"Lead ___ temptation ... " : USNOTINTO
59
Alloy. : BRASS
60
Cooled. : ICED
61
Shield of Zeus. : EGIS
62
Not many. : SOME
63
Knot. : NODE
64
Without: Poet. : SANS
Down
1
Falls behind. : LAGS
2
Hebraic name. : ABRAM
3
Children: Lat. : PUERI
4
Proofreader's marks. : STETS
5
Big business: Abbr. : MFG
6
Opportunists of a sort. : EARLYBIRDS
7
Comes to call. : DROPSIN
8
Seeds. : SOWS
9
___-comic. : SERIO
10
One way to get home. : MILKTRAIN
11
Woodwind. : OBOE
12
Blank spaces. : GAPS
15
Giants. : COLOSSI
17
Specialty number for a pianist. : NOLA
23
Dispenser of doles. : ALMONER
24
Headpiece. : CORONET
26
Neutral, as nations. : NONALIGNED
28
Word element meaning "oil." : OLEO
29
Swiss canton. : BERN
30
Served at tennis. : ACED
31
Sounds from a cote. : BAAS
32
City on the Zuyder Zee. : AMSTERDAM
33
Boston or Halifax: Abbr. : SPT
35
The Confederacy: Abbr. : CSA
37
Workers' concern. : HIRINGS
40
"Rhinoceros" author. : IONESCO
44
Hit hard. : SWAT
46
Large animals. : MOOSE
48
Ground covers. : IVIES
49
Carriage of India. : TONGA
50
Attend (with "on"). : SITIN
51
Diplomats: Abbr. : AMBS
52
Heat: Prefix. : PYRO
53
Downfall. : RUIN
55
Antarctic sea. : ROSS
58
Lyric. : ODE
Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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