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Sam Levine
With Hints from the Headlines
New York Times, Sunday, October 4, 1942
93-Across : Seaport on Tokyo Bay.
Author:
Sam Levine
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 164, Blocks: 77, Avg Word Len: 5.51, Missing: { J W Z }, Scrabble score: 644 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 168, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 121, Grid flow: 31.5
Sam Levine has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
1 D | 2 I | 3 E | 4 P | 5 P | 6 E | | | 7 C | 8 A | 9 M | 10 P | | 11 S | 12 C | 13 A | 14 T | | 15 K | 16 A | 17 F | 18 I | 19 R |
20 I | N | V | E | R | T | | 21 V | O | L | A | E | | 22 P | A | R | E | | 23 E | R | O | D | E |
24 S | T | A | L | I | N | | 25 I | N | D | I | A | | 26 A | L | E | X | 27 A | N | D | R | I | A |
28 P | O | D | | 29 C | A | 30 N | A | D | I | A | N | 31 S | | 32 E | N | A | C | T | | 33 T | O | D |
34 E | N | E | 35 L | E | | 36 E | T | O | N | S | | 37 T | 38 E | N | A | N | T | | 39 A | R | M | Y |
40 L | E | D | A | | 41 P | A | I | N | E | | 42 P | I | E | D | | 43 S | E | 44 D | G | E | | |
| | | 45 P | 46 I | E | R | C | E | | 47 D | E | F | R | A | 48 Y | | 49 D | I | E | S | 50 E | 51 L |
52 I | 53 N | 54 C | L | O | S | E | | 55 S | 56 P | I | T | F | I | R | E | 57 S | | 58 E | N | S | U | E |
59 R | E | L | A | T | O | R | 60 S | | 61 A | G | R | E | E | | 62 S | P | 63 A | T | T | E | R | S |
64 A | N | A | N | A | S | | 65 T | 66 E | L | L | E | R | | 67 E | T | A | P | E | | 68 S | O | S |
69 T | E | N | D | S | | 70 P | I | S | T | O | L | | 71 P | R | E | C | E | D | 72 E | | | |
73 E | S | S | E | | 74 S | E | P | T | E | T | | 75 F | A | I | R | E | R | | 76 P | 77 A | 78 E | 79 S |
| | | 80 R | 81 A | I | N | I | E | R | | 82 F | A | R | A | D | S | | 83 T | I | L | D | E |
84 O | 85 R | 86 E | | 87 S | L | A | T | S | | 88 A | R | C | A | N | A | | 89 S | O | T | T | E | D |
90 V | E | N | 91 D | E | T | T | A | | 92 P | L | I | E | D | | 93 Y | 94 O | K | O | H | A | M | A |
95 E | N | G | E | M | | 96 E | T | 97 I | O | L | A | T | E | 98 S | | 99 L | A | T | E | R | A | N |
100 R | O | L | L | I | 101 N | | 102 E | N | T | E | R | S | | 103 M | 104 O | N | T | H | S | | | |
| | 105 I | V | A | I | 106 N | | 107 F | I | G | S | | 108 D | O | R | E | E | | 109 I | 110 S | 111 A | 112 R |
113 B | 114 A | S | E | | 115 S | I | 116 R | E | N | E | | 117 M | A | L | A | Y | | 118 U | S | I | N | E |
119 U | G | H | | 120 N | A | D | I | R | | 121 S | 122 H | A | V | E | T | A | 123 I | L | | 124 S | O | P |
125 C | O | M | 126 M | A | N | D | A | N | 127 T | | 128 O | P | I | N | E | | 129 R | U | 130 S | S | I | A |
131 K | R | E | E | L | | 132 E | T | A | H | | 133 L | O | E | S | S | | 134 A | L | I | E | N | S |
135 S | A | N | T | A | | 136 R | A | L | E | | 137 D | U | S | K | | | 138 Q | U | E | S | T | S |
© 1942, The New York TimesNo. 34
Across
1
Where Commandos fought. :
DIEPPE7
Temporary military quarter. :
CAMP11
15
South African Bantu. :
KAFIR20
21
Soles of the feet: Latin. :
VOLAE22
Father of French surgery (1517–1590). :
PARE23
24
25
Country of political unrest. :
INDIA26
28
29
32
33
Fox, in Great Britain. :
TOD34
Administer extreme unction to. :
ENELE36
English students' jackets. :
ETONS37
39
40
Mother of Helen of Troy. :
LEDA41
A signer of the Declaration. :
PAINE42
Thrown into disorder. :
PIED43
45
The fourteenth President. :
PIERCE47
49
German inventor of internal combustion machine. :
DIESEL52
55
58
59
61
62
64
65
67
Russian stockade. :
ETAPE68
69
70
Auxiliary military weapon. :
PISTOL71
73
74
75
76
President of Portugal, 1918. :
PAES80
Third highest mountain peak in U. S. :
RAINIER82
83
Diacritical sign. :
TILDE84
87
Thin wood strips. :
SLATS88
89
90
92
"The muskrat ___ the mason's trade."—Whittier. :
PLIED93
95
96
99
100
French historian: 1661–1741. :
ROLLIN102
103
105
Bitter resinous compound. :
IVAIN107
108
Wall-eyed pike-perch. :
DOREE109
113
Military point of operations. :
BASE115
Homeric sea nymph: var. :
SIRENE117
Peninsula captured by Japanese. :
MALAY118
West Indian sugar works. :
USINE119
120
"From the ___ deep up to the zenith."—Keats. :
NADIR121
New second lieutenant, or untrained Army mule. :
SHAVETAIL124
125
128
129
Fighting land of Rurik. :
RUSSIA131
132
133
134
135
Child's best friend. :
SANTA136
137
138
Down
1
2
3
4
5
American censorship chief. :
PRICE6
7
8
Handsomely printed book. :
ALDINE9
10
11
Historic Belgian town. :
SPA12
13
14
Southwestern Americans. :
TEXANS15
A duke who died for his country. :
KENT16
Biblical character. :
ARD17
18
Peculiarity of speech. :
IDIOM19
21
Pertaining to a journey. :
VIATIC27
30
31
35
38
39
41
42
Mother Carey's chicken. :
PETREL44
Ate according to a regimen. :
DIETED46
47
48
"O, call back ___, bid time return."—Richard II. :
YESTERDAY50
Australian kangaroo. :
EURO51
52
53
54
56
57
60
63
66
Park in Northern Colorado. :
ESTES67
70
71
72
Addition of a sound or syllable to the end of a word. :
EPITHESIS74
75
77
High mountain in Andes, Central Ecuador. :
ALTAR78
79
French fortress city on Meuse. :
SEDAN81
82
83
Appetite for eating. :
TOOTH84
85
Italian river, 137 miles to Adriatic. :
RENO86
88
89
91
92
94
Genus of trees, the Sonora iron-wood. :
OLNEYA97
98
Strategic Russian town near Moscow. :
SMOLENSK101
104
106
108
Former Ambassador to Russia (1936–38). :
DAVIES110
111
112
113
114
116
117
New Zealand tree: var. :
MAPOU118
Wailing of an owl. :
ULULU120
Mythical king of India. :
NALA122
123
126
127
130
Strain, as milk: Prov. Eng. :
SIE
Answer summary:
12 unique to this puzzle, 109 debuted here and reused later.
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Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 12 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 109 additional words that debuted in this puzzle and were later reused (total number of puzzles in brackets):
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Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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