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Geraldine W. King
New York Times, Tuesday, July 2, 1957
38-Down : Come: Fr.
Author:
Geraldine King
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13
Geraldine W. King has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Geraldine King is an alias for Geraldine W. King.
1 S | 2 L | 3 A | 4 M | 5 R | 6 I | 7 D | 8 E | 9 S | 10 B | 11 T | 12 U |
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13 T | U | L | E | 14 E | M | O | T | E | 15 F | I | A | T |
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16 I | C | O | N | 17 M | A | N | O | N | 18 L | A | T | E |
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19 F | I | F | T | 20 H | A | M | E | N | D | 21 M | E | N | T | |
22 F | A | T | H | E | R | S | 23 S | I | E | G | E | 24 S |
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25 O | C | K | 26 L | 27 E | F | T | T | U | R | N |
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28 S | 29 K | 30 U | L | K | 31 G | A | V | O | T | 32 L | I | I |
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33 C | O | N | S | 34 S | A | V | E | R | 35 S | A | N | D |
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36 O | M | E | 37 S | T | R | I | A | 38 V | E | R | G | E |
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39 P | I | N | 40 E | T | R | E | E | 41 D | E | R | ||||
42 E | N | T | R | E | E | 43 D | I | N | E | 44 T | 45 T | 46 E |
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47 T | E | A | M | S | 48 T | 49 E | R | S | U | N | I | O | N |
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50 P | E | R | S | 51 S | A | V | I | N | 52 A | G | R | A |
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53 T | R | E | E | 54 E | X | I | L | E | 55 D | E | U | T |
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56 A | N | D | 57 S | I | L | L | Y | 58 E | R | S | E |
© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 2,926
Across
1
Noisy impact. : SLAM
5
Teases: Colloq. : RIDES
10
Unit of heat: Abbr. : BTU
13
Marsh plant. : TULE
14
Behave theatrically. : EMOTE
15
Decree. : FIAT
16
Church image. : ICON
17
Opera by Massenet. : MANON
18
Recent. : LATE
19
"No person shall be held to answer ... " : FIFTHAMENDMENT
22
Leaders, as of the Pilgrims. : FATHERS
23
Long distressing periods. : SIEGES
25
Suffix forming diminutives. : OCK
26
Driving signal. : LEFTTURN
28
Move with stealth. : SKULK
31
Dance. : GAVOT
32
Fifty-two. : LII
33
Studies. : CONS
34
Life-___. : SAVER
35
Hourglass filling. : SAND
36
Cockney's dwelling. : OME
37
Narrow groove. : STRIA
38
Brink. : VERGE
39
Symbol of a coastal state. : PINETREE
41
German article. : DER
42
Dinner course. : ENTREE
43
Section of many modern houses. : DINETTE
47
Part of AFL-CIO. : TEAMSTERSUNION
50
Type of newspaper ad: Abbr. : PERS
51
The red cedar. : SAVIN
52
Site of Taj Mahal. : AGRA
53
Magnolia. : TREE
54
Banish. : EXILE
55
Old Testament book: Abbr. : DEUT
56
Moreover. : AND
57
Absurd. : SILLY
58
Gaelic. : ERSE
Down
1
Lacking grace. : STIFF
2
Role in Donizetti opera. : LUCIA
3
In the rigging. : ALOFT
4
Cooling substances. : MENTHOLS
5
Something said briefly. : REMARK
6
Priests of a mosque. : IMAMS
7
Sufficiently cooked. : DONE
8
Kind of jacket. : ETON
9
Summons. : SENDSFOR
10
Having two angles. : BIANGULAR
11
Becoming ragged. : TATTERING
12
Indian. : UTE
15
Jerauld Wright's concern. : FLEET
20
Slangy exclamation. : HECK
21
Glove. : MITT
24
Mean: Slang. : SNIDE
26
C'est ___! : LAVIE
27
Genus of shrubs of madder family. : EVEA
28
Range of view. : SCOPE
29
Third International, dissolved in 1943: Ger. sp. : KOMINTERN
30
Not recorded. : UNENTERED
31
French depot. : GARE
34
Strains. : STRESSES
35
Piece of music. : SERENADE
37
Forward part of a ship. : STEM
38
Come: Fr. : VENU
40
Rub out. : ERASE
41
Many-times Oscar winner. : DISNEY
43
Cotton cloth. : DRILL
44
Animal. : TIGER
45
Molding just above the plinth. : TORUS
46
Growing out. : ENATE
48
Cab. : TAXI
49
Sin. : EVIL
50
School group. : PTA
Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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