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Clara Rushe
Words the World Over
New York Times, Sunday, November 12, 1944
111-Across : King whose capital is Belgrade.
Author:
Clara Rushe
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 174, Blocks: 87, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 661 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 148, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 63, Grid flow: 9.5
Clara Rushe has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 M | 2 A | 3 R | 4 I | 5 A | 6 N | 7 A | 8 S | | 9 E | 10 V | 11 E | 12 R | 13 E | 14 T | 15 T | | 16 H | 17 A | 18 M | 19 B | 20 R | 21 O |
22 A | P | O | L | L | I | N | E | | 23 M | A | N | I | P | U | R | | 24 A | L | A | R | E | S |
25 T | A | C | L | O | B | A | N | | 26 P | R | O | M | I | S | E | | 27 Y | A | W | A | T | A |
28 A | R | T | | 29 P | S | T | | 30 S | T | E | W | S | | 31 C | E | 32 R | E | S | | 33 Z | I | G |
| 34 T | A | 35 I | | | | 36 P | A | Y | S | | | 37 J | A | M | E | S | | 38 F | I | R | E |
| | | 39 M | 40 A | 41 S | 42 S | E | L | | | 43 S | 44 T | O | N | E | D | | 45 H | O | L | E | S |
46 M | 47 E | 48 L | I | T | O | P | O | L | | 49 S | T | A | L | I | N | | 50 P | E | R | | | |
51 A | B | E | | 52 A | R | E | P | A | | 53 M | A | L | T | A | | 54 S | E | A | B | 55 E | 56 E | 57 S |
58 R | O | V | 59 E | | 60 B | A | L | U | | 61 I | R | E | S | | 62 S | O | R | R | E | N | T | O |
63 C | L | E | A | 64 T | | 65 R | E | M | 66 O | T | E | R | | 67 B | A | K | U | | 68 S | T | A | B |
69 H | I | R | S | O | 70 N | | 71 S | I | T | E | S | | 72 M | E | N | A | G | 73 E | | 74 E | H | S |
| | 75 K | E | Y | E | 76 D | | 77 N | I | S | | 78 B | A | S | | 79 L | I | N | 80 E | R | | |
81 A | 82 B | U | | 83 S | C | A | 84 L | E | S | | 85 F | A | U | S | 86 T | | 87 A | D | A | P | 88 T | 89 S |
90 S | I | S | 91 S | | 92 T | W | O | S | | 93 C | A | R | I | B | A | 94 L | | 95 S | T | R | I | P |
96 K | W | E | I | 97 Y | A | N | G | | 98 C | A | R | E | | 99 O | V | E | 100 R | | 101 S | I | M | I |
102 S | A | N | D | E | R | S | | 103 C | U | R | E | S | | 104 R | E | R | O | 105 B | | 106 S | O | T |
| | | 107 N | A | Y | | 108 R | O | B | E | R | T | | 109 O | R | O | M | E | 110 T | E | R | S |
111 P | 112 E | 113 T | E | R | | 114 C | A | R | A | T | S | | | 115 U | N | S | A | N | E | | | |
116 A | M | O | Y | | 117 H | U | R | O | N | | | 118 P | 119 E | G | S | | | | 120 A | 121 M | 122 I | |
123 N | E | B | | 124 P | O | T | I | N | | 125 F | 126 I | L | T | H | | 127 S | 128 A | 129 D | | 130 E | R | 131 S |
132 T | R | E | 133 M | O | R | | 134 T | A | 135 R | A | K | A | N | | 136 C | A | R | E | 137 N | T | A | N |
138 E | G | R | E | S | S | | 139 A | D | A | M | A | N | A | | 140 A | D | E | L | A | I | D | E |
141 R | E | A | L | T | Y | | 142 N | O | T | A | T | E | S | | 143 B | O | D | E | N | S | E | E |
© 1944, The New York TimesNo. 144
Across
1
9
Secretary of State under Fillmore. :
EVERETT16
President of Norwegian Parliament. :
HAMBRO22
23
24
25
26
27
Japan's "Pittsburgh," B-29 target. :
YAWATA28
29
30
31
Daughter of Saturn and Ops. :
CERES33
34
36
37
38
39
Arms center 90 mi. N. of Frankfort. :
MASSEL43
45
46
49
City in Donets coal basin. :
STALIN50
51
52
Spanish griddle cake. :
AREPA53
Where Italy's fleet surrendered. :
MALTA54
The Navy's fighting builders. :
SEABEES58
60
61
62
63
65
67
Oil center on W coast of Caspian. :
BAKU68
69
French town on the Oise. :
HIRSON71
72
74
75
77
78
79
81
Father: Arabic name. :
ABU83
85
Goethe drama, 1832. :
FAUST87
90
92
93
95
96
98
99
101
Island N. W. of Rhodes. :
SIMI102
103
104
106
107
108
Ex-head of Martinique. :
ROBERT109
111
King whose capital is Belgrade. :
PETER114
115
116
Port W. of Formosa. :
AMOY117
118
120
123
124
Old pot metal: French. :
POTIN125
127
130
132
134
136
138
139
Gateway to Petrified Forest, national monument. :
ADAMANA140
141
142
143
Down
1
2
3
Stringed instrument of Middle Ages. :
ROCTA4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Town N. E. of Tarquinia, Italy. :
TUSCANIA15
16
U. S. Ambassador to Spain. :
HAYES17
18
19
It borders Venezuela. :
BRAZIL20
21
30
32
35
Japan Island N. W. of Kyushu. :
IMI36
37
38
New Zealand's Premier, 1930–35. :
FORBES40
41
Slavic native of Saxony. :
SORB42
43
44
Early German silver coin. :
TALER45
Give attention to. :
HEAR46
Army Chief of Staff, 1918–21. :
MARCH47
Italian town near Salerno. :
EBOLI48
49
50
City taken by British Eighth Army. :
PERUGIA54
Polish town on Bug River. :
SOKAL55
56
Allied base in Greenland. :
ETAH57
59
62
___ Juan Hill, battle of 1898. :
SAN64
66
American patriot (1725–83). :
OTIS67
70
Flower part sought by bee. :
NECTARY72
Chief culture hero of Polynesia. :
MAUI73
76
Appears to give promise. :
DAWNS78
80
81
82
Lake N. E. of Kyoto, Japan. :
BIWA84
85
86
88
Strategic island N. W. of Darwin. :
TIMOR89
91
93
Mark of omission. :
CARET94
Allied-held Aegean island. :
LEROS97
98
Native of Isle of Pines. :
CUBAN100
Sunk Italian battleship. :
ROMA103
Seaplane active in bombing of Wake. :
CORONADO105
108
110
111
112
113
Rabaul airdrome bombed by AAF. :
TOBERA114
117
118
119
121
First wife of Zeus. :
METIS122
Mohammedan decree. :
IRADE124
125
126
Chine silk of Sumatra. :
IKAT127
Island N. W. of Honshu. :
SADO128
Interpreted: Archaic. :
ARED129
131
133
135
136
Band leader Callaway. :
CAB137
Answer summary:
17 unique to this puzzle, 46 debuted here and reused later, 10 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Analysis
There are 0 circles, 0 rebus squares and 4 cheater squares.
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Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 17 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 46 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 61 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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