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A. H. Drummond, Jr.
New York Times, Friday, April 24, 1959
Author:
A. H. Drummond, Jr.
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
A. H. Drummond, Jr. has 69 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:
49-Across original had "Anthropologists's"; corrected it to "Anthropologist's."
1 T | 2 A | 3 N | 4 G | 5 T | 6 A | 7 G | 8 S | 9 T | 10 E | 11 S | 12 T | 13 A |
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14 A | M | U | R | 15 E | D | N | A | 16 I | T | H | U | N |
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17 T | O | M | E | 18 N | E | A | R | 19 A | T | H | A | N | D |
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20 U | R | B | A | 21 N | S | P | R | A | W | L | 22 V | E | E |
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23 T | O | O | T | 24 L | E | 25 V | E | R | S |
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26 P | 27 A | 28 M | P | E | R | 29 T | 30 H | E | D | O | T | |||
31 I | N | A | L | L | 32 T | H | U | S | 33 L | A | 34 M | 35 A |
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36 S | A | L | A | 37 A | E | O | N | S | 38 C | I | O | N |
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39 A | S | T | I | 40 E | R | S | T | 41 B | A | L | T | O |
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42 E | N | 43 C | O | R | E | 44 J | O | N | S | O | N |
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45 V | 46 A | S | S | A | L | 47 R | E | N | O | |||||
48 O | R | E | 49 M | I | 50 S | 51 S | I | N | G | L | 52 I | 53 N | 54 K |
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55 L | A | C | 56 E | D | A | E | M | O | N | 57 O | D | E | A |
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58 T | R | A | D | E | 59 R | O | D | E | 60 G | E | A | R |
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61 S | A | T | O | N | 62 A | G | E | R | 63 Y | E | L | L |
© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,570
Across
1
Special flavor. : TANG
5
Dog ___. : TAGS
9
Seed covering. : TESTA
14
Manchurian border river. : AMUR
15
Novelist Ferber. : EDNA
16
Norse goddess of youth. : ITHUN
17
Unabridged dictionary. : TOME
18
Very close. : NEARATHAND
20
One trouble with cities today. : URBANSPRAWL
22
Neckline shape. : VEE
23
Blow the horn. : TOOT
24
Devices for lifting. : LEVERS
26
Coddle. : PAMPER
29
On ___ (on time). : THEDOT
31
Including everything. : INALL
32
What "sic" means. : THUS
33
User of a prayer wheel. : LAMA
36
Señor's room. : SALA
37
Ages and ages. : AEONS
38
Plant shoot. : CION
39
Italian wine city. : ASTI
40
Formerly "formerly." : ERST
41
City in Md. : BALTO
42
Concert cry. : ENCORE
44
Ben the poet. : JONSON
45
Subject or servant. : VASSAL
47
City on the Truckee. : RENO
48
Chalcopyrite. : ORE
49
Anthropologist's concern. : MISSINGLINK
55
Ancient Sparta. : LACEDAEMON
57
Concert halls. : ODEA
58
Baseball deal. : TRADE
59
Lay at anchor. : RODE
60
Equipment. : GEAR
61
Suppressed. : SATON
62
Aid to maturing. : AGER
63
Cry out. : YELL
Down
1
Skin marking: Var. : TATU
2
Love in Spain. : AMOR
3
Insensate. : NUMB
4
Region of North America. : GREATPLAINS
5
Stretching muscle. : TENSOR
6
Expert. : ADEPT
7
Snarl. : GNAR
8
Name meaning princess. : SARA
9
Of the nobility. : TITLED
10
Ordinal suffix. : ETH
11
Second looeys. : SHAVETAILS
12
Piano man. : TUNER
13
Where to see El Misti. : ANDES
19
Without reverence. : AWLESS
21
Carol. : NOEL
25
The study of Katmai, Krakatoa, etc. : VOLCANOLOGY
26
Tuscan city. : PISA
27
Duck genus. : ANAS
28
Bluish-gray feline. : MALTESECAT
29
Not these. : THOSE
30
Go after game. : HUNT
32
Region: Abbr. : TERR
34
Fictional sleuth. : MOTO
35
Shortly. : ANON
37
Ancient region of Asia Minor. : AEOLIA
41
Big Ben sound. : BONG
43
City on the Delaware. : CAMDEN
44
Great name in medicine. : JENNER
45
Electrical units. : VOLTS
46
Macaw. : ARARA
47
___ Janeiro. : RIODE
50
Milk wheys. : SERA
51
Another trouble with cities today. : SMOG
52
___ fixe. : IDEE
53
Name meaning champion. : NEAL
54
Marx. : KARL
56
Old name for Tokyo. : EDO
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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