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Elizabeth Patterson
World-Wide Words
New York Times, Sunday, November 4, 1945
25-Across : Continent.
Author:
Elizabeth Patterson
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 172, Blocks: 81, Avg Word Len: 5.21, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 649 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 128, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 18, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 58, Grid flow: 21.1
| 1 T | 2 O | 3 K | 4 Y | 5 O | | 6 B | 7 I | 8 T | 9 E | | 10 A | 11 P | 12 E | 13 S | | 14 S | 15 A | 16 G | 17 A | 18 M | 19 I |
20 M | I | R | I | A | M | | 21 R | O | O | S | 22 E | V | E | L | T | | 23 I | R | E | T | O | N |
24 I | N | I | S | L | E | | 25 A | U | S | T | R | A | L | I | A | | 26 M | U | N | S | E | L |
27 D | I | S | H | E | R | 28 I | T | | 29 H | O | I | S | T | | 30 L | 31 I | L | | 32 S | U | S | A |
33 I | A | S | I | | 34 S | K | I | 35 T | | 36 N | A | T | | 37 N | I | S | A | 38 N | | 39 G | I | N |
| 40 N | A | N | 41 A | | 42 E | S | S | 43 O | I | N | | 44 L | U | N | T | | 45 I | 46 L | I | A | D |
| | | 47 E | M | 48 S | | 49 L | A | M | A | | 50 H | I | R | O | H | 51 I | T | O | | | |
52 H | 53 E | 54 L | V | E | T | 55 I | A | N | S | | 56 S | A | T | E | | 57 M | O | R | O | 58 C | 59 C | 60 O |
61 A | L | I | | 62 N | A | R | V | A | | 63 C | O | L | U | M | 64 B | I | N | E | | 65 L | A | W |
66 A | L | T | 67 O | | 68 R | O | A | | 69 P | L | U | M | | 70 B | E | A | S | | 71 B | E | L | L |
72 F | E | H | M | 73 A | R | N | | 74 C | A | E | S | A | 75 R | E | A | N | | 76 E | A | V | E | S |
| 77 S | U | E | T | Y | | 78 E | O | L | A | | 79 H | A | R | K | | 80 C | O | R | E | D | |
81 I | M | A | G | E | | 82 S | C | H | O | N | 83 B | E | R | G | | 84 M | O | N | O | L | O | 85 G |
86 R | E | N | A | | 87 D | A | R | E | | 88 L | O | R | E | | 89 M | A | I | | 90 N | A | N | O |
91 E | R | I | | 92 F | U | K | U | S | 93 H | I | M | A | | 94 G | I | R | G | 95 A | | 96 N | I | O |
97 D | E | A | 98 F | I | S | H | | 99 I | O | L | A | | 100 B | A | D | E | N | B | 101 A | D | E | N |
| | | 102 A | L | E | A | 103 T | O | R | Y | | 104 K | U | R | D | | 105 E | E | L | | | |
106 M | 107 O | 108 R | S | E | | 109 L | I | N | N | | 110 R | A | M | B | L | 111 E | | 112 L | E | 113 E | 114 S | |
115 E | V | E | | 116 D | 117 O | I | T | S | | 118 A | E | S | | 119 S | E | T | 120 A | | 121 U | N | T | 122 O |
123 S | I | A | 124 M | | 125 S | N | A | | 126 A | M | A | H | 127 S | | 128 W | H | I | 129 T | T | I | E | R |
130 H | E | L | I | 131 A | C | | 132 N | 133 E | V | E | R | M | O | 134 R | E | | 135 M | A | I | G | R | E |
136 E | D | E | S | S | A | | 137 I | R | O | N | S | I | D | E | S | | 138 E | N | A | M | E | L |
139 D | O | S | S | E | R | | 140 C | E | N | T | | 141 R | A | P | T | | 142 R | A | N | A | S | |
© 1945, The New York TimesNo. 195
Across
1
Defeated capital. :
TOKYO6
10
"Ivory, and ___ and peacocks." :
APES14
U. S. fleet anchorage, near Tokyo Bay. :
SAGAMI20
21
23
Son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. :
IRETON24
Surround by water: Var. :
INISLE25
26
Patrice ___, young soprano. :
MUNSEL27
29
30
32
Shushan of the Bible. :
SUSA33
Moldavian capital. :
IASI34
36
37
Hebrew March–April. :
NISAN39
40
42
Excuse for nonappearance at court. :
ESSOIN44
Alfred ___, actor-dancer. :
LUNT45
47
49
50
52
56
57
Locale of International Zone. :
MOROCCO61
The Lion of Janina. :
ALI62
City between Tallinn and Leningrad. :
NARVA63
65
Prime Minister, 1922–23. :
LAW66
68
69
70
One of Punjab's "Five Rivers." :
BEAS71
American physicist (1847–1922). :
BELL72
74
76
77
78
Town NE of Aurora, Ill. :
EOLA79
80
Removed center of. :
CORED81
82
84
Cornelia Otis Skinner specialty. :
MONOLOG86
87
88
89
90
Dwarf: Comb. form. :
NANO91
92
94
Large Nile city, upper Egypt. :
GIRGA96
97
Somewhat hard of hearing. :
DEAFISH99
City, Allen County, Kan. :
IOLA100
102
104
Native of west Asia. :
KURD105
106
Artist-inventor (1791–1872). :
MORSE109
110
112
115
116
118
119
121
123
Indo-China's neighbor. :
SIAM125
126
128
130
132
135
Designating a meatless diet. :
MAIGRE136
137
138
Part of tooth structure. :
ENAMEL139
Tapestry for chairback. :
DOSSER140
141
142
Down
1
2
Bihar and ___ Prov., India. :
ORISSA3
4
1701 seat of learning. :
YALE5
6
7
Acknowledgment of debt. :
IOU8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Summer capital of India. :
SIMLA15
Island group W of New Guinea. :
ARU16
17
___ Airfield, near Yokohama. :
ATSUGI18
Roman Province in Augustus' reign. :
MOESIA19
___ Sea, site of Hiroshima. :
INLAND20
22
28
31
35
Lake, source of Blue Nile. :
TSANA37
38
41
43
Mystic Hindu syllables. :
OMS44
46
48
50
51
Electrified particles. :
IONS52
Deep-sea fishing grounds off Shetlands. :
HAAF53
54
55
___ Mountain, Michigan. :
IRON56
58
59
Nouvelle ___, Fr. Pacific island. :
CALEDONIE60
63
64
67
69
71
73
74
75
76
78
80
81
82
83
Town near mouth of Congo. :
BOMA84
85
Queer character: Slang. :
GOON87
89
92
93
94
95
"A keeper of sheep." :
ABEL98
100
101
103
104
106
107
N. Spanish city, near Gijon. :
OVIEDO108
110
111
Anglo-Saxon letter. :
ETH113
114
117
118
120
122
City N. of Kharkov. :
OREL124
126
127
129
500-m. river, Kenya colony. :
TANA131
133
134
Answer summary:
13 unique to this puzzle, 45 debuted here and reused later, 12 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Analysis
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Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 13 words unique to this puzzle:
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Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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