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W. E. Jones
W. E. Jones

New York Times, Thursday, December 27, 1962

Author:
W. E. Jones
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
W. E. Jones has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,911
Across
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Stair for entering an airplane. : RAMP
5
Sans ___ (matchless): Fr. : EGAL
9
Cut of beef. : SHANK
14
Arab potentate. : EMIR
15
Part of et al. : ALII
16
"Gay" place. : PAREE
17
Staff member. : AIDE
18
___ of Cutch, large salt marsh of India. : RANN
19
Oriental. : ASIAN
20
Answer. : RESPOND
22
Giggly. : TITTERY
24
Shooter at marbles. : TAW
25
Columnist's paragraph. : ITEM
27
Famous lioness. : ELSA
28
Vermont city. : BARRE
30
Crankcase reservoir. : OILPAN
32
Kind of pointed arch. : OGEE
33
Danube port. : ULM
34
Birthplace of St. Francis. : ASSISI
38
"Three ___ match." : ONA
39
Port in Libya. : TRIPOLI
41
___ che (not only): It. : NON
42
"Fountain of youth" island. : BIMINI
44
Former capital of Burma. : AVA
45
Cervine animal. : STAG
46
Creator of Parson Yorick. : STERNE
48
Buchan's "Thirty-nine ___." : STEPS
49
Not good, not bad. : SOSO
52
Lion's den. : LAIR
53
Put in order: Abbr. : ARR
54
Ingenuous. : ARTLESS
56
Card holdings. : TENACES
60
Piece of wood for belaying a rope. : CLEAT
61
Was profitable. : PAID
63
Considerable: Colloq. : SOME
64
Revenue, in France. : RENTE
65
Novel of 1816. : EMMA
66
Soot. : SMUT
67
Colorado park. : ESTES
68
Hold an opinion. : DEEM
69
Actual being: Lat. : ESSE
Down
1
Opposite of the van. : REAR
2
Bonne ___ (sweetheart): Fr. : AMIE
3
Center line of a sort. : MIDSTREAM
4
Fit out. : PREPARE
5
Get as one's desert. : EARN
6
Garden flowers. : GLADIOLI
7
French department. : AIN
8
Door part. : LINTEL
9
Petty quarrel. : SPAT
10
Expedites. : HASTENS
11
Character in "The Tempest." : ARIEL
12
Approaches. : NEARS
13
Uganda's neighbor. : KENYA
21
Be indebted to. : OWE
23
Antelope with lyrate horns. : IMPALA
26
Kettledrums. : TIMPANI
28
Relative of a chump. : BOOB
29
Two-faced Vedic god. : AGNI
31
"I begin ___ mean to end." - Browning. : ASI
33
Namesakes of Milton's archangel. : URIELS
35
Certain phone systems. : INTERCOMS
36
Castile. : SOAP
37
Common suffixes. : INGS
39
Explosive. : TNT
40
Item for contract parley. : OVERTIME
43
Sequester. : ISOLATE
45
Street, in Bonn. : STRASSE
47
Grated upon. : RASPED
48
Suffix on Japanese names. : SAN
49
___ Coeur. : SACRE
50
Fillets, in architecture. : ORLES
51
Extent: Scot. : STENT
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Summers, in 16 Across. : ETES
57
Netherlands town. : EDAM
58
Large ratite birds. : EMUS
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South-of-France port. : SETE
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Soul: Fr. : AME

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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