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Helen Fasulo
New York Times, Monday, December 16, 1963
Author:
Helen Fasulo
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 47, Avg Word Len: 4.94, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 44, Cheaters: 20, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 29.5
Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Helen Fasulo has 94 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 B | 2 A | 3 T | 4 H | 5 C | 6 A | 7 S | 8 A | |||||||
9 H | A | R | R | O | 10 W | 11 O | U | T | I | N | 12 G | |||
13 P | A | S | T | E | U | R | 14 I | R | O | N | O | U | 15 T |
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16 L | I | T | 17 K | R | E | 18 M | L | I | N | 19 T | A | R |
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20 E | R | I | 21 S | 22 I | C | A | C | O | 23 T | H | R | U |
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24 A | D | O | W | 25 N | 26 K | A | A | 27 S | U | E | D | E |
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28 O | N | A | I | 29 R | 30 S | K | 31 A | T | E | R | S | |||
32 S | M | U | 33 G | 34 E | W | E | S | |||||||
35 I | 36 N | H | E | R | I | 37 T | 38 L | E | D | 39 O | 40 N | |||
41 T | R | I | E | S | 42 V | E | 43 E | 44 L | A | P | A | 45 Z |
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46 R | O | A | D | 47 F | E | E | D | 48 S | 49 Y | E | T | I |
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50 I | N | G | 51 D | O | W | N | I | N | 52 G | 53 N | A | N |
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54 P | I | A | 55 N | O | L | A | 56 T | A | I | 57 L | I | N | G |
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58 C | R | A | N | K | Y | 59 S | P | R | I | N | T | |||
60 A | P | T | S | 61 S | O | N | G |
© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 5,251
Across
1
Turkish specialty. : BATH
5
Hidalgo's home. : CASA
9
Churchill's school. : HARROW
11
Picnic, perhaps. : OUTING
13
Famous French chemist. : PASTEUR
14
Smooth over. : IRONOUT
16
Aglow. : LIT
17
Historic citadel. : KREMLIN
19
Relative of blacktop. : TAR
20
Greek goddess. : ERIS
22
Tropical plum. : ICACO
23
By way of. : THRU
24
On the ground: Poet. : ADOWN
26
Mowgli's python. : KAA
27
Shoe leather. : SUEDE
28
Walking ___ (filled with joy). : ONAIR
30
Hockey team. : SKATERS
32
Like the cat that ate the canary. : SMUG
34
Ovine animals. : EWES
35
Come into money. : INHERIT
38
Lured. : LEDON
41
Samples. : TRIES
42
Letter. : VEE
44
Largest city of Bolivia. : LAPAZ
46
Engineering project. : ROAD
47
Nourishes. : FEEDS
49
Fabled Himalayan snowman. : YETI
50
Common suffix. : ING
51
Historic British street. : DOWNING
53
Masefield heroine. : NAN
54
Predecessor of the jukebox. : PIANOLA
56
Work for a gumshoe. : TAILING
58
Irritable. : CRANKY
59
Track event. : SPRINT
60
Certain homes: Abbr. : APTS
61
Carol. : SONG
Down
1
Strong defense. : BASTION
2
Expression of beauty. : ART
3
Migration across the veldt. : TREK
4
Beautiful maiden. : HOURI
5
Objet d'art. : CURIO
6
Like ___ of bricks. : ATON
7
Sloth, for one. : SIN
8
One more. : ANOTHER
9
Fair lady's concern. : HAIRDO
10
Tear down. : WRECK
11
By-product of flaxseed. : OILCAKE
12
Sentries. : GUARDS
13
Defendant's answer to a charge. : PLEA
15
Bona fide. : TRUE
18
The Meuse. : MAAS
21
Put on an air of bravado. : SWASHED
23
When Solomon Grundy was christened. : TUESDAY
25
Wine city of southern France. : NIMES
27
Bessemer product. : STEEL
29
Play about robots. : RUR
31
Tool used by the leprechauns. : AWL
33
Yield to. : GIVEWAY
35
Sarcastic. : IRONIC
36
Overwhelming flood. : NIAGARA
37
Numerical suffix. : TEEN
39
First performance. : OPENING
40
Floating in water. : NATANT
41
Quick light step. : TRIP
43
Works on mss. : EDITS
45
Energy: Colloq. : ZING
47
People. : FOLKS
48
Fasteners. : SNAPS
51
"You ___ say!" : DONT
52
Kind of aircraft, for short. : GIRO
55
Siesta. : NAP
57
Lime tree. : LIN
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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