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Barbara L. Golub
New York Times, Thursday, March 7, 1963
Author:
Barbara L. Golub
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 70,
Cheaters: 2,
FITB: 5,
XRef: 0,
Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8,
Grid flow: 11.9
Grid has duplicate clues.
1 S | 2 T | 3 E | 4 M | 5 S | | 6 S | 7 H | 8 A | 9 W | | 10 S | 11 O | 12 L | 13 I |
14 O | R | L | O | P | | 15 E | A | C | H | | 16 E | V | E | N |
17 P | I | A | N | I | 18 S | S | I | M | O | | 19 D | E | A | N |
20 H | A | B | I | T | U | A | T | E | | 21 P | A | R | S | E |
| 22 N | O | T | | 23 A | M | I | | 24 S | I | T | T | E | R |
| 25 G | R | O | 26 O | V | E | | 27 B | E | T | E | | | |
28 C | L | A | R | K | E | | 29 P | A | L | | 30 S | 31 L | 32 A | 33 T |
34 R | E | T | | 35 S | N | 36 E | E | R | E | 37 D | | 38 E | L | I |
39 Y | S | E | 40 R | | 41 E | R | G | | 42 C | U | 43 R | A | T | E |
| | | 44 E | 45 L | S | E | | 46 S | T | E | E | V | E | |
47 S | 48 H | 49 A | V | E | S | | 50 M | A | I | | 51 F | E | R | |
52 T | E | P | I | D | | 53 R | E | S | O | 54 N | A | N | C | 55 E |
56 R | A | R | E | | 57 T | E | C | H | N | I | C | I | A | N |
58 A | V | O | W | | 59 O | N | C | E | | 60 L | E | N | T | O |
61 Y | E | N | S | | 62 P | E | A | S | | 63 E | D | G | E | S |
© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 4,971
Across
1
Parts of musical notes. :
STEMS6
Great playwright and music critic. :
SHAW10
Music for one instrument. :
SOLI14
15
16
Like a metronomic beat. :
EVEN17
19
20
21
Analyze syntactically. :
PARSE22
Word frequently contracted. :
NOT23
24
25
In the ___ (in currently favored style). :
GROOVE27
28
One of Rhode Island's founders. :
CLARKE29
30
34
35
38
39
41
Relative of a joule. :
ERG42
44
In a different manner. :
ELSE46
Spar used to stow cargo. :
STEEVE47
Close things, at times. :
SHAVES50
Springtime, in France. :
MAI51
52
53
56
57
58
59
60
Musical direction. :
LENTO61
62
Proverbially, things exactly alike. :
PEAS63
Down
1
2
3
4
5
Barbecue implement. :
SPIT6
7
Caribbean republic. :
HAITI8
9
10
Gives a soothing medicine. :
SEDATES11
12
Type of contract. :
LEASE13
18
21
Place for a theater orchestra. :
PIT24
26
27
28
Quality in the voice of some singers. :
CRY29
31
32
33
Curved line, in music. :
TIE36
37
40
Contents of an artist's scrapbook. :
REVIEWS43
45
46
47
48
49
Front section of a stage. :
APRON50
Center or goal for many people. :
MECCA53
One of Lesage's names. :
RENE54
55
Early space traveler. :
ENOS57
High notes of the voice. :
TOP
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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