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Brice Metcalfe
Brice Metcalfe

New York Times, Thursday, May 10, 1962

Author:
Brice Metcalfe
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9 Grid has duplicate clues.
Brice Metcalfe has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,682
Across
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Compass point. : NNW
4
Acclaim. : ECLAT
9
Dotted, as with stars, in heraldry. : SEME
13
Where Diamond Head is. : OAHU
15
Run after. : CHASE
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Old-time wagon. : WAIN
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Not conventional. : UNORTHODOX
19
Latin "to be." : ESSE
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Like a maple seed. : SAMAROID
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Legal matters. : TORTS
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Sinister look. : LEER
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Pitcher's specialty. : CURVE
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Greek letters. : SIGMAS
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Shaven and shorn. : BARBERED
31
Interweaves. : PLATS
32
Vehicles of a sort. : BUSES
33
Greek letter. : TAU
34
Cure-___. : ALLS
35
Narrow openings. : SLITS
36
Venture. : RISK
37
Hindu cymbals. : TAL
38
Bucket handles. : BAILS
39
Euripides play. : MEDEA
40
Relative by remarriage. : STEPAUNT
42
Hard rolls. : BAGELS
43
Produce. : YIELD
44
Vasco da ___. : GAMA
45
Dusky. : SWART
46
Not to mention. : LETALONE
50
Whereupon. : WHEN
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New Guinea, for example: Abbr. : SOUTHSEAIS
53
Tolerably. : SOSO
54
Spasm of pain. : THROE
55
Card game. : SKAT
56
Bloc in Prohibition days. : WETS
57
Rectify. : EMEND
58
Compass point. : SSE
Down
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Entre ___. : NOUS
2
1880 novel. : NANA
3
Pronoun. : WHOM
4
Repeats. : ECHOES
5
Singers. : CHOIR
6
Movie actor. : LADD
7
Kyushu volcano. : ASO
8
Characters of woven fabrics. : TEXTURES
9
Turn aside. : SWERVE
10
Post-Lenten period. : EASTERTIDE
11
Feminine title. : MISS
12
Compass point. : ENE
14
Feature between two continents: Abbr. : URALMTS
18
Govt. dept. : TREAS
22
Sun and moon. : ORBS
24
Playbill lists. : CASTS
25
Shoe store merchandise. : SPATS
26
___ ease. : ILLAT
27
Knock ___ (break into smithereens). : GALLEYWEST
28
Constructed. : BUILT
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Studio item. : EASEL
30
French composer. : DUKAS
32
Dazzle. : BLIND
35
___ Marie. : SAULTSTE
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Entertains. : REGALES
38
Former boxing figure. : BAER
39
Family members. : MAMAS
41
Stringed instruments. : PIANOS
42
Showered. : BATHED
44
Prosper. : GETON
45
Pump. : SHOE
46
Entice. : LURE
47
Dumbarton ___. : OAKS
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Indonesian island. : NIAS
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Town near Padua. : ESTE
50
Compass point. : WSW
52
Electrical unit. : OHM

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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