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Alberta N. Burton
Global Gleanings
New York Times, Sunday, October 15, 1950
124-Across : Animal of the Andes.
Author:
Alberta N. Burton
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 166, Blocks: 80, Avg Word Len: 5.41, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 644 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 169, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 48, Grid flow: 37.3
1 K | 2 O | 3 R | 4 E | 5 A | | 6 C | 7 A | 8 T | 9 E | 10 N | 11 A | | 12 C | 13 R | 14 O | 15 A | 16 T | | 17 T | 18 C | 19 H | 20 U |
21 A | G | O | N | E | | 22 A | C | A | R | I | D | | 23 H | U | K | B | A | 24 L | A | H | A | P |
25 N | I | G | E | R | | 26 S | C | H | I | S | M | | 27 A | R | I | E | T | I | N | O | U | S |
28 A | V | E | | 29 Y | 30 A | H | O | O | S | | 31 I | 32 S | R | A | E | L | | 33 S | T | I | L | T |
34 K | E | R | 35 N | | 36 S | I | R | E | | 37 T | R | A | I | L | S | | | | 38 A | R | E | A |
39 A | S | S | O | 40 R | T | E | D | | 41 C | H | A | R | T | S | | 42 S | 43 H | 44 R | | 45 E | R | R |
| | | 46 B | O | O | R | | 47 F | A | R | L | E | Y | | 48 S | H | O | U | 49 L | D | S | T |
50 F | 51 E | 52 I | S | A | L | | 53 F | I | L | O | S | E | | 54 L | O | A | V | E | S | | | |
55 O | L | M | | 56 M | A | 57 T | I | N | E | E | | | 58 C | A | D | R | E | | 59 D | 60 E | 61 N | 62 T |
63 R | E | I | 64 S | | 65 T | O | N | E | D | | 66 S | 67 P | O | N | S | O | R | 68 S | | 69 N | O | R |
70 M | O | T | I | 71 F | | 72 I | N | D | O | 73 C | H | I | N | A | | 74 N | E | U | 75 R | I | N | E |
76 O | N | A | G | R | 77 A | | | | 78 N | A | A | M | S | | | | 79 D | R | O | W | S | E |
80 S | O | N | N | E | T | 81 S | | 82 S | I | N | G | A | P | 83 O | 84 R | 85 E | | 86 A | M | E | E | R |
87 A | R | T | | 88 T | R | E | 89 S | P | A | S | S | | 90 I | X | I | O | 91 N | | 92 E | T | N | A |
93 N | A | S | 94 T | | 95 O | R | I | O | N | | | 96 C | R | I | M | S | O | 97 N | | 98 O | S | T |
| | | 99 R | 100 E | P | E | N | T | | 101 P | 102 A | R | A | D | E | | 103 R | A | 104 I | K | E | S |
105 A | 106 N | 107 T | I | G | O | N | E | | 108 R | E | D | A | N | S | | 109 B | E | Y | S | | | |
110 C | A | R | | 111 O | S | A | | 112 R | E | R | E | N | T | | 113 F | E | A | S | I | 114 B | 115 L | 116 E |
117 H | I | E | 118 S | | | | 119 D | E | P | O | N | E | | 120 S | O | L | S | | 121 S | O | O | N |
122 E | R | A | T | 123 O | | 124 V | I | C | U | N | A | | 125 S | P | R | I | T | 126 S | | 127 M | M | S |
128 S | O | C | R | A | 129 T | I | C | A | L | | 130 U | 131 P | C | O | M | E | | 132 O | 133 R | B | I | T |
134 O | B | L | A | T | E | N | E | S | S | | 135 E | R | A | S | E | R | | 136 R | I | A | T | A |
137 N | I | E | W | | 138 M | O | R | T | E | | 139 R | O | P | E | R | S | | 140 B | O | Y | A | R |
© 1950, The New York TimesNo. 483
Across
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"Country of Morning Repose." :
KOREA6
12
Native of Zagreb. :
CROAT17
Exclamation of distaste. :
TCHU21
22
23
25
It flows into the Gulf of Guinea. :
NIGER26
27
28
29
Brutes found by Gulliver. :
YAHOOS31
Middle East republic. :
ISRAEL33
34
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" composer. :
KERN36
37
38
39
41
Made by cartographers. :
CHARTS42
45
46
47
48
50
53
54
Molded masses of food. :
LOAVES55
Eel-shaped amphibian. :
OLM56
58
59
63
65
66
69
70
72
74
76
78
79
80
82
86
87
88
90
Father of Centaurs, bound to endlessly revolving wheel. :
IXION92
93
95
Giant who loved Merope. :
ORION96
98
99
101
Frequent event at West Point. :
PARADE103
Robert ___, English founder of Sunday schools. :
RAIKES105
Greek ideal of noble womanhood. :
ANTIGONE108
109
Turkish governors. :
BEYS110
111
112
113
117
119
120
121
122
She plays the lyre. :
ERATO124
125
127
128
Of the inductive method of reasoning. :
SOCRATICAL130
132
134
135
Pencil box equipment. :
ERASER136
137
138
Malory's "___ d'Arthur." :
MORTE139
140
Court aristocrat of old Russia. :
BOYAR
Down
1
2
3
4
Suffix used in chemistry. :
ENE5
6
7
8
Washoe Indian word meaning lake. :
TAHOE9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Walter ___, actor. :
ABEL16
17
18
19
20
24
30
32
Hindu woman's garment: Var. :
SAREE35
37
40
41
42
City in Pennsylvania. :
SHARON43
44
47
48
Covers with grass. :
SODS49
Pounds, shillings & pence. :
LSD50
51
52
53
President Paasikivi. :
FINN54
57
58
60
U. S. atomic weapons proving grounds. :
ENIWETOK61
62
64
66
67
68
71
Ornamental network. :
FRET73
75
City on the Tiber. :
ROME77
She cuts the thread of life. :
ATROPOS81
82
83
Chemical compounds. :
OXIDS84
85
89
91
94
96
Sleepy Hollow schoolmaster. :
CRANE97
100
101
The power in Buenos Aires. :
PERON102
104
Goddess of the sacred cow. :
ISIS105
106
107
108
Historic British warship. :
REPULSE109
112
113
114
115
116
118
119
120
123
124
125
126
129
131
133
Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 37 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Analysis
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Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 11 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 37 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:
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Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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