This web browser is not supported. Use Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox for best results.
Nancy S. Ross
Nancy S. Ross

New York Times, Saturday, March 9, 1985

Author:
Nancy Scandrett Ross
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J K Q V X }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 26.3
Nancy S. Ross has 34 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 22 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Nancy Scandrett Ross is an alias for Nancy S. Ross.
1
B
2
E
3
A
4
M
5
M
6
I
7
D
8
G
9
E
10
F
11
I
12
S
13
H
14
E
N
C
E
15
A
D
E
A
R
16
A
S
T
A
17
D
O
C
T
18
O
R
O
W
L
E
19
T
T
E
R
S
20
E
S
T
A
M
I
N
E
T
21
A
T
R
I
P
22
P
I
E
T
Y
23
S
L
E
E
P
S
24
L
25
I
26
G
H
T
S
27
H
E
L
D
28
O
S
L
O
29
S
30
E
I
N
E
31
Z
32
O
33
A
34
S
T
A
R
35
S
36
A
N
D
S
T
R
37
E
E
P
S
38
S
O
D
39
A
M
A
S
S
40
S
N
A
P
41
S
L
O
G
42
D
43
R
O
O
L
S
44
M
45
A
46
N
T
I
S
47
S
48
T
O
A
T
49
A
L
I
A
S
50
A
N
A
L
G
E
51
S
52
I
53
A
54
G
O
E
T
H
55
E
D
A
M
M
E
R
U
N
G
56
O
N
C
E
57
S
I
R
E
E
58
I
R
A
E
59
T
E
E
S
60
S
T
E
R
N
61
C
E
T
E
© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,905
Across
1
Apparatus for Retton : BEAM
5
Gnat : MIDGE
10
Pike or perch : FISH
14
Ending for confer : ENCE
15
"Experience keeps ___ school ... ": Franklin : ADEAR
16
Shaft, in Spain : ASTA
17
Degree for a novelist? : DOCTOROWLETTERS
20
Small café : ESTAMINET
21
Describing an anchor clear of the bottom : ATRIP
22
Priestly quality : PIETY
23
Emulates Rip : SLEEPS
24
Matches : LIGHTS
27
Contained : HELD
28
Where the Kon-Tiki is now : OSLO
29
French flower : SEINE
31
Products of fertilized eggs : ZOA
34
Banner for an actress? : STARSANDSTREEPS
38
Turf : SOD
39
Accumulate : AMASS
40
Crackle's predecessor : SNAP
41
Trudge : SLOG
42
Emulates Pavlov's dogs : DROOLS
44
Praying ___ : MANTIS
47
Ermine, at times : STOAT
49
Nom de plume's cousin : ALIAS
50
One kind of insensibility : ANALGESIA
54
Twilight of a poet? : GOETHEDAMMERUNG
56
At all : ONCE
57
Emphatic word after yes or no : SIREE
58
"Dies ___" : IRAE
59
North Sea feeder : TEES
60
Severe : STERN
61
Group of badgers : CETE
Down
1
Eliot hero : BEDE
2
Cabell of baseball : ENOS
3
Business abbr. : ACCT
4
Implied comparison : METAPHOR
5
Osmond and Wilson : MARIES
6
"___ Care," hit song for Tanguay : IDONT
7
Presidential also-ran : DEWEY
8
City in SE Ontario : GALT
9
Poet's word : ERE
10
Kind of calf : FATTED
11
Rhone tributary : ISERE
12
Reduce to essentials : STRIP
13
Metal fasteners : HASPS
18
Skip : OMIT
19
Less low : TALLER
23
Conveyed : SENT
24
Red-ink entry : LOSS
25
Ratio words : ISTO
26
Delighted : GLAD
27
Greet the villain : HISS
29
Hose blemish : SNAG
30
Asner and Sullivan : EDS
31
Stoicism founder : ZENO
32
Menilite : OPAL
33
Horned vipers : ASPS
35
Indian of British Columbia : SALISH
36
An Alcott : AMOS
37
Abstruse : ESOTERIC
41
Conditions : STATES
42
Megalithic monument : DOLMEN
43
Choler : RAGE
44
Chinese figurine : MAGOT
45
Single : ALONE
46
Houghton, to Hepburn : NIECE
47
Catch : SNARE
48
Not so feral : TAMER
50
Mine entrance : ADIT
51
Unwavering : SURE
52
___ the finish : INAT
53
He wrote "The Morning Watch": 1954 : AGEE
55
Road curve : ESS

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

Log in or purchase a subscription to view an analysis of this puzzle.

Found bugs or have suggestions? Please let us know.

Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

Previous puzzle | Next puzzle
XWord Info Home
XWord Info © 2007-2026, Jim Horne
28 ms