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Wittes
New York Times, Wednesday, June 30, 1982
Author:
Wittes
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15,
Words: 76,
Blocks: 44,
Avg Word Len: 4.76,
Missing: { B J Q },
Scrabble score: 309 (avg 1.71)
Open Squares: 58,
Cheaters: 10,
FITB: 6,
XRef: 0, Spans: 3,
Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6,
Grid flow: 35.2
Grid has duplicate clues.
Wittes has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
1 P | 2 A | 3 G | 4 E | | 5 S | 6 E | 7 A | 8 M | | | | 9 P | 10 P | 11 S |
12 A | S | O | F | | 13 H | E | L | O | 14 T | | 15 A | L | O | E |
16 W | E | A | T | 17 H | E | R | F | O | R | 18 E | C | A | S | T |
19 S | A | D | | 20 E | L | I | S | | 21 E | A | R | T | H | |
| | | 22 H | A | V | E | | 23 M | E | T | O | O | | |
| 24 A | 25 S | I | D | E | | 26 D | O | T | Y | | 27 N | 28 T | 29 H |
30 O | C | H | S | | | | 31 I | O | O | O | | 32 I | O | U |
33 C | R | O | S | 34 S | 35 W | 36 O | R | D | P | U | 37 Z | Z | L | E |
38 T | I | E | | 39 C | A | R | A | | | | 40 E | E | L | S |
41 A | D | S | | 42 E | X | E | C | | 43 L | 44 O | R | D | S | |
| | 45 T | 46 U | N | I | S | | 47 F | A | R | O | | | |
| 48 T | O | K | E | N | | 49 H | I | N | T | | 50 S | 51 O | 52 W |
53 F | O | R | E | I | G | 54 N | E | X | C | H | 55 A | N | G | E |
56 P | R | E | S | | 57 S | I | R | E | E | | 58 D | I | L | L |
59 A | S | S | | | | 60 P | O | S | T | | 61 O | P | E | D |
© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,922
Across
1
"The Front ___," 1928 play :
PAGE5
9
Sec. addition to a signed letter :
PPS12
Date-setting phrase :
ASOF13
15
Plant native to S. Africa :
ALOE16
19
Like McCullers's cafe :
SAD20
Eleven against the Cantabs :
ELIS21
___ Day (environmentalists' event) :
EARTH22
23
24
26
Stained by decay, as trees :
DOTY27
30
U.S. newspaper publisher: 1858–1935 :
OCHS31
32
33
38
39
"___ Mia," 1954 song :
CARA40
41
42
43
London house, for short :
LORDS45
N African capital :
TUNIS47
48
49
50
53
56
Ans. to a roll call :
PRES57
58
59
60
A name for a newspaper :
POST61
Page of comment and opinion :
OPED
Down
1
2
" ... ___ of troubles": Hamlet :
ASEA3
4
5
6
Like a haunted house :
EERIE7
8
9
10
11
14
Where a kite might alight :
TREETOP15
17
18
"The better to ___ with!" :
EATYOU22
23
24
Biting to the taste :
ACRID25
26
Nobelist in Physics: 1933 :
DIRAC28
Payments for passage :
TOLLS29
Raspberry, plum, etc. :
HUES30
34
In which Horatio accosts a ghost :
SCENEI35
36
37
43
Type of arch or window :
LANCET44
46
47
48
49
50
Insignificant person :
SNIP51
52
53
Memorable N.Y. columnist :
FPA54
55
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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