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Harold T. Bers
What Do You Know?
New York Times, Sunday, November 11, 1951
124-Across : Cut.
Author:
Harold T. Bers
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 166, Blocks: 72, Avg Word Len: 5.51, Missing: { X Z }, Scrabble score: 661 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 162, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 40, Grid flow: 63.4
1 M | 2 I | 3 S | 4 T | 5 R | 6 A | 7 L | | 8 S | 9 A | 10 L | 11 U | 12 D | 13 O | 14 S | | 15 S | 16 P | 17 E | 18 A | 19 K | 20 E | 21 R |
22 E | S | Q | U | I | R | E | | 23 E | L | A | T | I | V | E | | 24 P | E | R | T | U | S | E |
25 T | O | U | L | O | U | S | 26 E | L | A | U | T | R | E | C | | 27 I | N | S | E | R | T | S |
28 A | L | A | E | | 29 B | A | L | L | | 30 R | E | T | R | O | 31 J | E | C | T | | 32 F | E | E |
33 M | A | R | | 34 S | A | G | A | | 35 V | E | R | Y | | 36 N | A | L | E | | 37 M | U | L | E |
38 E | T | E | 39 R | N | | 40 E | N | 41 G | E | L | S | | 42 A | D | D | S | | 43 F | I | E | L | D |
44 R | E | S | E | A | 45 T | | 46 D | U | G | | | 47 T | I | M | E | | 48 M | I | T | R | E | S |
| | | 49 L | I | R | 50 A | | 51 M | A | 52 S | 53 C | A | R | A | | 54 P | A | N | T | S | | |
55 S | 56 T | 57 H | E | L | E | N | 58 S | | 59 S | H | O | R | T | N | 60 E | S | S | | 61 S | T | 62 E | 63 T |
64 P | R | O | G | | 65 K | I | T | 66 S | | 67 A | M | M | I | | 68 R | I | C | 69 E | | 70 E | U | R |
71 R | U | P | A | 72 S | | 73 L | E | A | 74 P | | 75 M | A | M | 76 B | A | | 77 O | R | 78 A | N | G | E |
79 A | M | A | T | I | 80 S | | 81 P | R | O | 82 D | U | C | E | R | S | | 83 T | I | L | D | E | N |
84 G | A | L | E | N | A | | 85 P | A | L | E | N | | 86 S | E | M | 87 I | | 88 S | T | A | N | D |
89 U | N | O | | 90 G | L | 91 E | E | | 92 O | M | I | 93 T | | 94 R | U | N | 95 G | | 96 A | M | I | E |
97 E | S | N | 98 E | | 99 I | N | D | 100 O | N | E | S | I | 101 A | | 102 S | C | R | 103 A | M | M | E | D |
| | 104 G | L | 105 A | N | D | | 106 P | I | N | T | A | I | 107 L | | 108 H | O | M | O | | | |
109 D | 110 E | C | A | D | E | | 111 S | P | U | T | | | 112 S | I | 113 D | | 114 W | I | N | 115 T | 116 E | 117 R |
118 O | V | A | T | E | | 119 F | O | E | S | | 120 P | 121 A | N | D | A | 122 S | | 123 S | T | O | M | E |
124 G | A | S | H | | 125 C | L | A | N | | 126 R | O | D | E | | 127 C | O | 128 P | S | | 129 N | I | L |
130 E | N | S | | 131 P | O | O | R | H | 132 O | U | S | E | | 133 C | H | A | R | | 134 A | G | R | A |
135 A | G | I | 136 T | A | T | O | | 137 E | R | N | E | S | 138 T | H | E | M | I | 139 N | G | W | A | Y |
140 R | E | D | A | T | E | D | | 141 I | N | E | R | T | I | A | | 142 E | M | U | L | A | T | E |
143 S | L | Y | N | E | S | S | | 144 M | E | S | S | E | R | S | | 145 S | P | E | A | R | E | D |
© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 875
Across
1
8
First word of Disney title. :
SALUDOS15
22
23
24
25
27
28
29
30
32
33
34
The Forsyte story. :
SAGA35
36
Corruption of ale. :
NALE37
Mascot of Earl Blaik's team. :
MULE38
40
42
43
Place to play football. :
FIELD44
Send back to Congress. :
RESEAT46
47
Word in Wolfe title. :
TIME48
49
The Turkish pound. :
LIRA51
54
55
Photogenic Washington mountain. :
STHELENS59
Characteristic of LaGuardia, Napoleon, etc. :
SHORTNESS61
Proofreader's word. :
STET64
Independent party: Abbr. :
PROG65
67
68
Chief element in some diets. :
RICE70
71
Bodies: Hinduism. :
RUPAS73
75
Ethel Waters role in DuBose Heyward play. :
MAMBA77
79
81
83
He just missed being President in 1876. :
TILDEN84
85
86
88
Refreshment counter. :
STAND89
90
92
94
96
97
Early English slave. :
ESNE99
102
104
106
108
109
A certain period of years. :
DECADE111
112
114
Season in Shakespeare title. :
WINTER118
119
120
123
Mouth: Comb. form. :
STOME124
125
Stewart or Bruce or Campbell. :
CLAN126
127
Whodunit characters. :
COPS129
130
Officer of U. S. N.: Abbr. :
ENS131
133
London cleaning woman. :
CHAR134
135
137
140
141
142
143
144
145
Down
1
Type of chemical compound. :
METAMER2
3
4
5
6
Oil island in Caribbean. :
ARUBA7
He wrote Gil Blas, 1715–35. :
LESAGE8
Wall St.'s bears do. :
SELL9
Gov. Persons' state: Abbr. :
ALA10
Emblem of distinction. :
LAUREL11
12
13
Six balls in cricket. :
OVER14
Play by S. N. Behrman (with "The"). :
SECONDMAN15
16
Twelve to a shilling. :
PENCE17
18
19
20
21
26
1,500-lb. antelope. :
ELAND31
34
35
37
Diamond equipment. :
MITTS39
41
42
43
Subsidiary plane on an aircraft. :
FIN45
47
48
50
52
53
54
55
Economist, former Brian Truster. :
SPRAGUE56
Residents of Pennsylvania Ave. :
TRUMANS57
58
60
62
Hat style popular in the 30's. :
EUGENIE63
66
Yankee Dr. Brown's bride. :
SARA69
Goddess of discord. :
ERIS72
What members of 90 Across do. :
SING74
He said, "To thine own self be true." :
POLONIUS76
78
Wolfe's version of Asheville, N. C. :
ALTAMONT80
82
87
91
93
95
98
Israeli statesman. :
ELATH100
101
103
105
He wrote "The Fair Co-ed." :
ADE107
109
Turned down corners of pages. :
DOGEARS110
111
113
Noted hat designer. :
DACHE115
116
High office in Near East. :
EMIRATE117
119
Mississippi basin hazards. :
FLOODS120
121
First word of Christmas hymn. :
ADESTE122
125
Sheep enclosures. :
COTES126
Teutonic characters. :
RUNES128
131
Cocktail hors d'oeuvre. :
PATE132
Alençon is its capital. :
ORNE133
134
Sacred Hebrew acrostic. :
AGLA136
Souvenir of summer. :
TAN138
139
Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 31 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
Analyzing...
Analysis
There are 0 circles, 0 rebus squares and 0 cheater squares.
The grid
Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 9 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 31 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 48 answer words are not legal Scrabble™ entries, which sometimes means they are interesting:
Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
Note: average values here are based on Modern Era stats. Pre-Shortz puzzles didn't vary consistently by day of week.
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