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Arthur Schulman
New York Times, Friday, December 16, 1966
Author:
Arthur Schulman
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 344 (avg 1.80)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11, Grid flow: 43.8
Arthur Schulman has 80 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
1 S | 2 A | 3 R | 4 A | 5 H | 6 W | 7 O | 8 R | 9 M | 10 P | 11 P | 12 S | |||
13 A | G | A | N | A | 14 O | L | I | O | 15 O | L | O | 16 R |
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17 N | O | M | A | N | 18 S | L | A | N | D | 19 T | A | B | U |
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20 O | N | A | N | D | O | F | F | 21 E | 22 D | I | T | E | D |
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23 A | L | L | S | 24 D | R | I | P | D | R | Y |
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25 P | 26 A | 27 S | S | E | D | 28 H | O | N | S | H | U | |||
29 E | X | O | 30 D | A | 31 G | O | N | 32 H | A | J | 33 J | 34 I |
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35 B | E | A | 36 T | 37 T | O | S | A | 38 Y | 39 R | O | U | T |
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40 A | L | P | H | 41 A | 42 L | E | T | U | 43 P | 44 U | N | I |
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45 B | U | R | 46 P | E | D | 47 C | L | 48 E | R | K | S |
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49 S | 50 O | U | R | G | U | M | 51 S | C | U | M | ||||
52 A | L | B | I | O | N | 53 C | H | A | M | B | 54 R | 55 A | 56 Y |
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57 W | E | B | B | 58 J | 59 A | M | E | S | J | O | Y | C | E |
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60 S | I | L | L | 61 A | N | D | I | 62 A | L | O | H | A |
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63 N | E | E | 64 B | A | R | K | 65 M | I | T | E | R |
© 1966, The New York TimesNo. 6,334
Across
1
Mother of Isaac. : SARAH
6
Bait. : WORM
10
Letter addenda. : PPS
13
Guamanian port. : AGANA
14
Hodgepodge. : OLIO
15
Genus of swans. : OLOR
17
Forbidding country. : NOMANSLAND
19
Proscription. : TABU
20
Intermittently. : ONANDOFF
21
Ready for the printer. : EDITED
23
"___ Well ... " : ALLS
24
Kind of shirt or dress. : DRIPDRY
25
Slipped by. : PASSED
28
Mainland Japan. : HONSHU
29
Outside: Prefix. : EXO
30
Chief god of the Philistines. : DAGON
32
Moslem title for pilgrim to Mecca. : HAJJI
35
Vibrate. : BEAT
37
That is ___. : TOSAY
39
No contest. : ROUT
40
A beginning. : ALPHA
42
Pause. : LETUP
44
Numerical prefix. : UNI
45
Helped an infant, in a way. : BURPED
47
Office workers. : CLERKS
49
Kind of tree. : SOURGUM
51
Surface film. : SCUM
52
England, poetically. : ALBION
53
Gingham. : CHAMBRAY
57
Clifton of stage fame. : WEBB
58
Creator of Buck Mulligan. : JAMESJOYCE
60
Threshold. : SILL
61
"The King ___." : ANDI
62
American greeting. : ALOHA
63
Born. : NEE
64
Yelp. : BARK
65
Bishop's headdress. : MITER
Down
1
In corpore ___. : SANO
2
Stravinsky ballet. : AGON
3
Hindu god. : RAMA
4
Pineapple: Sp. : ANANAS
5
Managed. : HANDLED
6
Eats greedily. : WOLFS
7
Norse name. : OLAF
8
___-Tin-Tin. : RIN
9
New. : MODERN
10
Egyptian who owned Joseph: Gen. 39. : POTIPHAR
11
French menu entry. : PLATDUJOUR
12
Not at all frivolous. : SOBER
16
Vallee. : RUDY
18
Army man: Fr. : SOLDAT
22
See 11 Down. : DISH
24
Actor who played Mr. Chips. : DONAT
25
Armadillo. : PEBA
26
Swedish name. : AXEL
27
Fragile sphere. : SOAPBUBBLE
28
Washed down. : HOSED
31
Robot of Jewish legend. : GOLEM
33
Chinese ship. : JUNK
34
"___ a far, far better thing ... " : ITIS
36
Incense burner. : THURIBLE
38
Plants of the lily family. : YUCCAS
41
Mythical ship. : ARGO
43
Breakfast spread. : PLUMJAM
46
Where Lahore is. : PUNJAB
48
Blood clots. : EMBOLI
49
Maxims. : SAWS
50
Chemical fat. : OLEIN
51
Arab chieftain. : SHEIK
53
Naval rank: Abbr. : CMDR
54
Indian peasant. : RYOT
55
Yearn. : ACHE
56
Four seasons. : YEAR
59
Miscellanea. : ANA
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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