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Thomas Meekin
New York Times, Tuesday, October 11, 1955
Author:
Thomas Meekin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.46, Missing: { V X Z }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12, Grid flow: 65.8
Thomas Meekin has 202 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 J | 2 U | 3 M | 4 B | 5 O | 6 B | 7 L | 8 A | 9 C | 10 K | 11 S | ||||
12 O | 13 N | A | G | A | I | N | 14 R | A | N | O | U | T | ||
15 M | A | C | H | I | N | E | 16 O | H | I | O | M | A | 17 N |
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18 A | R | K | 19 N | E | W | 20 P | O | R | T | 21 Q | U | A |
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22 H | I | S | 23 T | 24 S | A | L | K | 25 A | 26 B | U | N | T |
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27 A | N | O | A | 28 S | 29 Y | A | L | 30 U | 31 L | A | C | T |
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32 S | E | N | N | A | 33 S | 34 S | Y | M | 35 P | A | T | H | Y |
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36 G | R | E | 37 A | T | N | E | S | S | ||||||
38 B | 39 A | 40 L | L | G | A | M | E | 41 S | I | T | 42 O | 43 U | 44 T |
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45 O | B | O | E | 46 S | E | R | 47 B | 48 S | E | R | R | A |
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49 G | O | U | D | 50 A | 51 N | E | R | 52 O | 53 D | I | B | S |
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54 U | L | E | 55 M | 56 I | D | R | I | F | 57 F | 58 G | A | S |
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59 S | I | L | 60 T | A | G | E | 61 E | T | A | 62 M | I | N | E |
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63 S | L | A | T | E | R | 64 F | E | L | I | N | E | S |
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65 H | A | B | I | T | S | 66 S | N | A | G | S |
© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,296
Across
1
Anything big. : JUMBO
6
Dark horses. : BLACKS
12
"Off again, ___, Finnegan." : ONAGAIN
14
Came to an end. : RANOUT
15
Comptometer, for example. : MACHINE
16
Buckeye or Bobcat. : OHIOMAN
18
Earliest known vessel. : ARK
19
Naval training base in R. I. : NEWPORT
21
In so far as: Latin. : QUA
22
Look here! : HIST
24
Discoverer of a new vaccine. : SALK
25
Relative of "a single," "a grounder," etc. : ABUNT
27
Small wild oxen. : ANOAS
29
Korean border river. : YALU
31
Combining form for milk. : LACT
32
Medicinal plants. : SENNAS
34
Old-time Friml song. : SYMPATHY
36
Fame. : GREATNESS
38
"Take me out to the ___." : BALLGAME
41
Stay until the end of. : SITOUT
45
Instrument. : OBOE
46
Yugoslavian. : SERB
48
Sawfish's saw. : SERRA
49
Mild cheese. : GOUDA
51
Tyrant in "Quo Vadis." : NERO
53
Bobs bait for fish. : DIBS
54
Diminutive suffix. : ULE
55
Diaphragm of the body. : MIDRIFF
58
Highway sign. : GAS
59
A mass of sediment. : SILTAGE
61
Fabric like voile. : ETAMINE
63
Roofing specialist. : SLATER
64
Cats. : FELINES
65
Costumes. : HABITS
66
Unseen dangers. : SNAGS
Down
1
Capital of Mississippi. : JACKSON
2
Exclamation of distaste. : UGH
3
Name for an important street. : MAIN
4
Twining stems. : BINES
5
Traffic pointer. : ONEWAY
6
Well-known borough. : BROOKLYN
7
Comedian Bert. : LAHR
8
Santa ___. : ANITA
9
Bird's call. : COO
10
Citrus fruit. : KUMQUAT
11
Unwavering. : STAUNCH
12
Tribe of the Dakota family. : OMAHAS
13
Of the nostrils. : NARINE
17
Smartly spruce. : NATTY
20
Worker in stucco. : PLASTERER
23
Snarled. : TANGLED
26
Blew up. : BLASTED
28
Famous puppeteer. : SARG
30
Japanese apricots. : UMES
33
The Red and the Coral. : SEAS
35
Greek letters. : PSIS
37
They move to alter motions, bills, etc. : AMENDERS
38
Pseudo. : BOGUS
39
Put an end to. : ABOLISH
40
"My Cousin ___," a popular song. : LOUELLA
42
Beginnings. : ORIGINS
43
Courteous. : URBANE
44
Cups: French. : TASSES
47
Summaries. : BRIEFS
50
Cremona. : AMATI
52
Repeatedly. : OFTEN
56
"___ a kick out of you." : IGET
57
Refrain syllables in old songs. : FALA
60
Addendum to a filing card. : TAB
62
Marble. : MIG
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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