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Louis Jenkins
With Hints from the Headlines
New York Times, Sunday, December 3, 1944
60-Across : Due.
Author:
Louis Jenkins
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 174, Blocks: 87, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 648 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 148, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 61, Grid flow: 23.4
1 T | 2 A | 3 I | 4 P | 5 O | | 6 A | 7 L | 8 A | 9 N | 10 D | | 11 A | 12 B | 13 B | 14 A | 15 S | | 16 M | 17 A | 18 S | 19 T | 20 S |
21 O | D | D | E | R | | 22 P | A | D | U | A | | 23 A | R | U | B | A | | 24 A | G | I | R | A |
25 K | O | E | N | I | 26 G | S | B | E | R | G | | 27 C | O | R | A | L | | 28 N | O | N | I | C |
29 A | R | A | D | | 30 L | A | R | N | E | | 31 P | H | O | N | | 32 V | 33 A | I | G | A | C | H |
34 Y | E | S | | 35 T | A | R | O | | 36 M | 37 I | R | E | D | | 38 S | A | I | L | | 39 I | E | S |
| | | 40 S | I | D | A | | 41 I | B | S | E | N | | 42 M | A | D | R | A | 43 S | | | |
44 A | 45 B | 46 O | U | T | | 47 S | 48 P | R | E | E | S | | 49 C | A | T | O | | | 50 A | 51 R | 52 A | 53 B |
54 L | I | S | B | O | 55 N | | 56 H | E | R | R | | 57 P | O | L | A | R | | | 58 H | O | L | L |
59 W | A | C | O | | 60 O | 61 W | I | N | G | | 62 B | A | T | A | N | | 63 B | 64 E | A | D | L | E |
65 A | L | A | R | | 66 W | A | D | I | | 67 M | A | T | T | Y | | 68 J | E | R | R | I | E | S |
69 Y | A | R | N | 70 S | | 71 V | I | C | 72 T | O | R | I | A | | 73 T | E | R | R | A | N | E | S |
| | | | 74 T | 75 R | E | A | S | O | N | | 76 E | G | 77 R | E | T | T | E | | | | |
78 M | 79 I | 80 S | 81 D | E | A | L | S | | 82 L | I | 83 G | N | E | O | U | S | | 84 D | 85 E | 86 B | 87 I | 88 T |
89 I | M | P | E | R | I | L | | 90 A | S | S | E | T | | 91 S | T | A | 92 G | | 93 S | A | N | E |
94 D | A | U | B | E | D | | 95 B | U | T | T | E | | 96 S | T | O | M | A | | 97 T | I | D | E |
98 A | G | R | A | | | 99 L | O | G | O | S | | 100 O | P | E | N | | 101 B | 102 E | R | L | I | N |
103 S | E | N | S | | | 104 O | R | E | Y | | 105 S | P | A | R | S | 106 E | | 107 M | A | Y | A | S |
| | | 108 E | 109 A | 110 S | I | E | R | | 111 S | P | A | N | S | | 112 V | 113 I | M | Y | | | |
114 B | 115 O | 116 R | | 117 B | I | T | S | | 118 S | P | A | H | I | | 119 H | E | R | A | | 120 B | 121 I | 122 B |
123 O | P | E | 124 R | A | T | E | | 125 R | U | H | R | | 126 S | 127 C | A | L | A | | 128 R | E | N | O |
129 M | E | M | O | S | | 130 R | 131 A | I | S | E | | 132 T | H | U | R | I | N | 133 G | I | A | N | S |
134 B | R | I | D | E | | 135 E | D | G | A | R | | 136 A | L | D | E | N | | 137 O | G | R | E | S |
138 S | A | T | E | S | | 139 R | E | I | N | E | | 140 L | Y | S | S | A | | 141 P | A | S | S | Y |
© 1944, The New York TimesNo. 147
Across
1
City near Hong Kong. :
TAIPO6
Islands, capital Mariehamn. :
ALAND11
Oriental bishops. :
ABBAS16
21
22
City 25 miles west of Venice. :
PADUA23
Oil island near Curaçao, shelled 1942. :
ARUBA24
25
27
Sea between Queensland and New Hebrides. :
CORAL28
Of the ninth degree. :
NONIC29
City on Mures River, Rumania. :
ARAD30
Seaport in North Ireland. :
LARNE31
Sound: Comb. form. :
PHON32
Russian island in Arctic Ocean. :
VAIGACH34
35
Constituent of poi. :
TARO36
38
39
40
41
Creator of Little Eyolf, 1894. :
IBSEN42
Chief port, east coast of India. :
MADRAS44
47
49
Hannibal's adversary. :
CATO50
54
56
57
58
English portrait painter (1845–88). :
HOLL59
60
62
Island off Luzon. :
BATAN63
Mr. Bumble's official position. :
BEADLE65
66
River or ravine: North Africa. :
WADI67
68
What GI's call the Germans. :
JERRIES69
71
73
74
76
78
82
84
89
90
91
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97
Sailor's timetable. :
TIDE98
Site of the Taj Mahal. :
AGRA99
The divine Creative Word. :
LOGOS100
101
Where the Volkssturm crouches. :
BERLIN103
City on the Yonne. :
SENS104
Containing crude mineral. :
OREY105
107
Early settlers in Yucatan. :
MAYAS108
111
112
Where Canadians defeated Germans, 1917. :
VIMY114
Assumed name of Polish military hero. :
BOR117
118
Algerian cavalryman. :
SPAHI119
Queen of the gods. :
HERA120
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125
Area northeast of Aachen. :
RUHR126
128
City of the Great Divide. :
RENO129
130
What the Little Steel formula prevents. :
RAISE132
134
What "Elsa" is in the third act. :
BRIDE135
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139
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141
Nobel peace prize winner, 1901. :
PASSY
Down
1
Hungarian wine center. :
TOKAY2
3
4
5
6
Nymph of Indra's paradise. :
APSARAS7
Ancient name of Leghorn. :
LABRO8
British colony in S. W. Arabia. :
ADEN9
City of Nazi's annual convention. :
NUREMBERG10
11
Captured German city. :
AACHEN12
13
14
Camel's hair cloth. :
ABA15
Country bounded by Guatemala and Honduras. :
SALVADOR16
Where Yamashita lurks. :
MANILA17
18
Where Moses received the Commandments. :
SINAI19
20
"Die Meistersinger." :
SACHS26
31
33
Present-day war sphere. :
AIR35
Marshal of Jugoslavia. :
TITO37
River rising in Bohemia. :
ISER38
40
41
42
Peninsula in Indo-China. :
MALAY43
Plateau in North Africa. :
SAHARA44
45
Town in central Poland. :
BIALA46
48
Designer of Parthenon sculptures. :
PHIDIAS49
51
Sculptor of "The Thinker." :
RODIN52
53
"___ the man who first invented sleep."—Saxe. :
BLESS55
57
61
Governor General of India. :
WAVELL62
63
64
67
Those opposed to dualism. :
MONISTS68
70
72
Author of Resurrection (1828–1910). :
TOLSTOY73
75
77
78
Bather in the River Pactolus. :
MIDAS79
80
Refuse with scorn. :
SPURN81
83
85
86
Discoverer of lights around the moon. :
BAILY87
Country partly invaded by Japan. :
INDIA88
90
92
95
Waves in the Bay of Fundy. :
BORES96
99
100
102
105
106
First novel written by a woman, 1778. :
EVELINA109
110
111
113
Where Pahlavi rules. :
IRAN114
115
Goal of most audition aspirants. :
OPERA116
118
___ B. Anthony, suffragist. :
SUSAN119
120
121
Founder of historical criticism (1798–1874). :
INNES122
124
What the "Light Brigade" did. :
RODE125
Swiss mountain, 5,905 feet. :
RIGI127
128
Capital of Latvia. :
RIGA131
Author of "The County Chairman." :
ADE132
133
Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 50 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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