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Henry A. Wolfe
Commencement
New York Times, Sunday, January 2, 1949
7-Across : Mediocre.
Author:
Henry A. Wolfe
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 154, Blocks: 81, Avg Word Len: 5.82, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 614 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 190, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 20, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 67, Grid flow: 40.1
David Steinberg notes:
In order to match its clue, the fourth letter of 59-Down should be an "O" rather than an "A."
1 C | 2 A | 3 N | 4 O | 5 V | 6 A | | 7 P | 8 A | 9 S | 10 S | 11 A | 12 B | 13 L | 14 E | | | 15 A | 16 M | 17 I | 18 G | 19 O | 20 S |
21 O | R | A | L | E | S | | 22 A | P | P | E | L | L | A | N | 23 T | | 24 D | O | R | R | I | T |
25 A | G | R | E | E | S | | 26 T | R | A | C | T | A | B | L | E | | 27 O | T | O | O | L | E |
28 T | A | G | O | R | E | | 29 H | I | S | T | O | R | I | A | N | 30 S | | 31 E | N | T | R | E |
32 E | L | I | | 33 S | N | 34 A | I | L | | | 35 S | E | A | C | O | W | 36 S | | | 37 T | A | L |
38 S | I | L | 39 T | | 40 T | A | C | I | 41 T | 42 A | | | 43 T | E | R | A | T | 44 O | 45 L | O | G | Y |
| 46 S | E | E | 47 D | E | R | | 48 S | O | M | 49 I | 50 T | E | | | 51 R | O | W | E | | | |
| | | 52 S | I | D | O | 53 N | | 54 R | A | S | E | | 55 N | 56 O | T | R | E | D | 57 A | 58 M | 59 E |
60 F | 61 E | 62 S | T | E | | 63 N | E | 64 V | I | L | L | E | | 65 A | C | H | E | S | | 66 M | A | L |
67 A | V | I | A | T | 68 E | | 69 T | I | N | I | A | N | | 70 G | A | M | Y | | 71 L | O | G | E |
72 M | A | R | T | I | N | 73 O | | 74 L | O | A | M | Y | | 75 A | L | O | | 76 L | O | R | N | A |
77 I | N | N | O | C | E | N | 78 C | E | | | | | | 79 S | A | R | 80 D | I | N | I | A | N |
81 L | E | A | R | S | | 82 Y | O | N | | 83 C | 84 A | 85 S | 86 C | A | | 87 E | R | N | E | S | T | O |
88 I | S | M | S | | 89 A | X | L | E | | 90 I | N | T | A | K | 91 E | | 92 Y | E | S | T | E | R |
93 A | C | E | | 94 A | R | C | O | S | | 95 T | S | A | R | I | S | 96 M | | 97 M | O | S | S | A |
98 R | O | S | 99 E | C | R | A | N | S | | 100 T | O | G | O | | 101 S | A | 102 L | E | M | | | |
| | | 103 A | R | A | M | | | 104 P | A | N | E | L | 105 S | | 106 C | A | N | E | 107 R | 108 S | |
109 M | 110 O | 111 N | T | E | N | E | 112 G | 113 R | O | | | 114 R | E | T | 115 U | R | F | | 116 R | E | A | 117 P |
118 A | P | E | | | 119 T | O | L | E | D | 120 O | 121 S | | | 122 A | P | A | C | 123 E | | 124 F | I | L |
125 N | I | S | 126 S | 127 A | | 128 S | E | L | E | C | T | 129 N | 130 E | S | S | | 131 A | M | 132 B | A | L | A |
133 I | N | S | I | D | 134 E | | 135 D | I | S | C | O | U | R | S | E | | 136 D | E | A | C | O | N |
137 L | E | U | D | E | S | | 138 E | S | T | A | M | I | N | E | T | | 139 I | N | S | E | R | T |
140 A | R | S | E | N | E | | | 141 H | A | M | P | T | O | N | S | | 142 O | D | E | S | S | A |
© 1949, The New York TimesNo. 360
Across
1
Judy ___, hillbilly actress. :
CANOVA7
15
Our Latin-American friends. :
AMIGOS21
Ecclesiastical veils. :
ORALES22
24
25
26
27
Well-known Irish name. :
OTOOLE28
29
31
32
College in Connecticut. :
ELI33
35
37
38
40
43
46
48
Segment of animal bodies: Zool. :
SOMITE51
"Schoolboy ___," of Connie Mack's Athletics. :
ROWE52
Capital of ancient Phoenicia. :
SIDON54
55
60
63
65
66
"Fleurs du ___"—Stendhal. :
MAL67
69
70
71
72
Name of five popes: Ital. :
MARTINO74
Having clayey soil. :
LOAMY75
76
77
79
81
Whose daughter was Regan? :
LEARS82
83
Conspirator in "Julius Caesar." :
CASCA87
88
89
90
92
"___ thoughts."—Victor Herbert. :
YESTER93
94
Violin bows: Ital. :
ARCOS95
97
An indentation or nick: Port. :
MOSSA98
William S. ___, Civil War general. :
ROSECRANS100
Port Arthur victor, 1904. :
TOGO101
College in West Virginia. :
SALEM103
"Eugene ___."—Bulwer-Lytton. :
ARAM104
106
109
Former kingdom, now part of Yugoslavia. :
MONTENEGRO114
116
118
Yank, in an O'Neill play. :
APE119
122
124
125
Ancient name for Nish, Serbia. :
NISSA128
131
City in Punjab, N. of Delhi. :
AMBALA133
Part of title of John Gunther's books. :
INSIDE135
136
137
138
139
Extra leaves in a book. :
INSERT140
141
The ___, summer resort on Long Island. :
HAMPTONS142
Seaport of the Ukraine. :
ODESSA
Down
1
Sir Eric ___, composer of the London Suite, etc. :
COATES2
Wild sheep with large horns. :
ARGALIS3
4
Substitute for a common food. :
OLEO5
6
7
8
Month of thirty days: Latin. :
APRILIS9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Zola wrote of one in Lourdes. :
GROTTO19
Dust or grease wiper. :
OILRAG20
23
30
34
Given name of an early Vice President. :
AARON36
39
41
Capital city of Piedmont. :
TORINO42
Anna ___ of Saxe-Wiemar, patron of Goethe, Schiller, et al. :
AMALIA44
Is under obligation. :
OWES45
47
Science dealing with nutrition: Rare. :
DIETICS49
50
53
55
Partly destroyed by an A bomb. :
NAGASAKI56
57
58
Rich or powerful industrialists. :
MAGNATES59
Give name of Italy's famous actress. :
ELEANORA60
61
62
64
68
71
73
76
78
80
83
84
___ Phelps Stokes. :
ANSON85
Person of long experience (with old). :
STAGER86
89
91
94
City in Palestine. :
ACRE96
Ancient river in Italy. :
MACRA99
102
104
105
President of a Pennsylvania University. :
STASSEN107
Freshens up the surface again. :
REFACES108
The cast in "Mr. Roberts." :
SAILORS109
Important naval base. :
MANILA110
111
Centaur shot with a poisoned arrow by Hercules. :
NESSUS112
113
115
Sure-things gone wrong. :
UPSETS117
120
William of ___, English philosopher of 14th century. :
OCCAM121
123
126
127
Seaport in Arabia. :
ADEN129
130
___ Rapee, orchestra leader. :
ERNO132
134
Answer summary:
13 unique to this puzzle, 54 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Analysis
There are 0 circles, 0 rebus squares and 6 cheater squares.
The grid
Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 13 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 54 additional words that debuted in this puzzle and were later reused (total number of puzzles in brackets):
These words have only appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:
These 59 answer words are not legal Scrabble™ entries, which sometimes means they are interesting:
Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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