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Archie S. Kreiling
With Clues from the News
New York Times, Sunday, July 11, 1943
118-Across : Guide: Scot.
Author:
Archie S. Kreiling
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 178, Blocks: 84, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 685 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 147, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 101, Grid flow: 14.1
1 H | 2 A | 3 I | 4 N | 5 A | 6 N | | 7 P | 8 R | 9 E | 10 N | 11 T | 12 I | 13 S | 14 S | | 15 M | 16 E | 17 S | 18 S | 19 I | 20 N | 21 A |
22 O | R | N | A | T | E | | 23 Y | A | M | A | M | O | T | O | | 24 A | V | I | A | T | E | S |
25 R | E | A | P | E | R | | 26 C | L | U | B | | 27 S | A | W | | 28 R | E | D | R | A | W | S |
29 N | E | R | O | | 30 V | 31 A | N | E | S | S | 32 A | | 33 T | E | 34 E | N | S | | 35 A | L | E | E |
36 E | L | M | | 37 M | E | T | I | S | | | 38 P | 39 I | E | R | R | E | | 40 S | W | A | R | T |
| | | 41 S | A | L | A | D | | 42 U | 43 N | H | O | R | S | E | | 44 T | A | A | | | |
45 A | 46 S | 47 P | I | R | E | S | | 48 S | T | A | I | N | | | | 49 N | E | C | K | 50 T | 51 I | 52 E |
53 C | L | A | R | E | T | | 54 B | A | I | R | D | | 55 D | 56 A | 57 V | I | E | S | | 58 H | O | E |
59 H | I | R | E | S | | 60 S | A | L | L | E | | 61 A | R | N | O | L | D | | 62 H | U | L | L |
63 I | V | A | N | | 64 D | A | N | T | E | | 65 C | R | A | D | L | E | | 66 D | A | N | E | S |
67 M | E | M | | 68 L | A | N | G | | | 69 B | A | N | K | E | T | | 70 W | E | L | D | | |
71 E | N | U | 72 R | I | N | G | | 73 J | 74 E | R | R | I | E | S | | 75 J | E | F | F | E | 76 R | 77 S |
| | 78 S | O | A | K | | 79 B | A | L | A | A | M | | | 80 F | O | R | T | | 81 R | E | E |
82 A | 83 S | H | U | R | | 84 D | E | M | E | N | T | | 85 S | 86 C | U | S | E | | 87 A | B | B | E |
88 P | O | I | X | | 89 R | E | J | E | C | T | | 90 J | O | A | S | H | | 91 B | L | O | A | T |
92 E | I | R | | 93 B | E | E | A | S | T | | 94 R | O | L | E | S | | 95 W | E | A | L | T | H |
96 S | L | U | 97 S | H | E | D | | | | 98 C | O | H | E | N | | 99 G | R | A | N | T | E | E |
| | | 100 P | O | D | | 101 T | 102 A | 103 R | I | A | N | A | | 104 H | I | E | M | S | | | |
105 T | 106 A | 107 M | E | R | | 108 I | N | L | E | T | S | | | 109 K | E | R | N | S | | 110 H | 111 T | 112 S |
113 A | G | E | N | | 114 A | N | T | E | S | | 115 T | 116 A | 117 L | I | P | O | T | | 118 A | I | R | T |
119 P | A | R | S | 120 O | N | S | | 121 G | U | 122 M | | 123 M | O | S | T | | 124 A | 125 P | P | L | E | Y |
126 E | T | I | E | N | N | E | | 127 A | M | C | 128 H | I | T | K | A | | 129 I | R | I | D | A | L |
130 R | E | T | R | E | A | T | | 131 R | E | V | E | R | S | A | L | | 132 L | Y | S | A | T | E |
© 1943, The New York TimesNo. 74
Across
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Jap-dominated island east of French Indo-China. :
HAINAN7
Given name of Price Administrator. :
PRENTISS15
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Recently deceased Japanese admiral. :
YAMAMOTO24
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Roman Emperor before Galba. :
NERO30
"Cadenus and ___," poem by Swift. :
VANESSA33
Adolescent years. :
TEENS35
Toward the sheltered side. :
ALEE36
37
First wife of Zeus. :
METIS38
Give name, French Chief of Government. :
PIERRE40
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Cold vegetable dish :
SALAD42
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British general (1757–1829). :
BAIRD55
Former U. S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. :
DAVIES58
Improver of printing press (1812–1886). :
HOE59
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Commanding General, Army Air Forces. :
ARNOLD62
Secretary of State. :
HULL63
First Russian ruler to take the title "Czar," 1547. :
IVAN64
Given name of author of "Divina Commedia." :
DANTE65
Faneuil Hall or "___ of Liberty." :
CRADLE66
Members of the Folketing. :
DANES67
68
Former Archbishop of Canterbury. :
LANG69
Raisin cake, in South Africa. :
BANKET70
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Drink intemperately. :
SOAK79
Prophet bribed by Balak to curse Israel. :
BALAAM80
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Assyrian god of military prowess. :
ASHUR84
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French ecclesiastic's title. :
ABBE88
French city bombed by RAF. :
POIX89
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Norse goddess of healing. :
EIR93
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98
"King of Lampedusa." :
COHEN99
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109
Celtic foot soldiers. :
KERNS110
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French commune on Garonne River. :
AGEN114
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Engineer of N. Y. C. subways (1859–1932). :
PARSONS121
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Executive director of War Manpower Commission. :
APPLEY126
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132
Product resulting from lysis. :
LYSATE
Down
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Vice Chief of Naval Operations. :
HORNE2
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4
River in Ecuador, 550 miles from Cotopaxi Mt. to Amazon. :
NAPO5
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Sounds of breathing. :
RALES9
Australian ratite birds. :
EMUS10
Keepers of door locks. :
NABS11
Trench weapon: Abbr. :
TM12
Island in the Aegean. :
IOS13
14
15
Site of World War I battle. :
MARNE16
Nights before events. :
EVES17
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State in Borneo where Sir James Brooke was "white rajah." :
SARAWAK19
Old Latin Bible text. :
ITALA20
21
Item of property. :
ASSET31
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39
Electrified particle. :
ION40
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Began a golf game. :
TEED45
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Where Aswan Dam is. :
NILE50
51
Hercules took her captive. :
IOLE52
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First Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, 1580. :
DRAKE56
Where Aconcagua is. :
ANDES57
Unit of electromotive force. :
VOLT60
61
German commander Von ___, captured in Tunisia. :
ARNIM62
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Noted Mohawk Indian chief (1742–1807). :
BRANT70
72
Commune, Hainaut Province, Belgium. :
ROUX73
Landis of the OCD. :
JAMES74
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Town in Tunisia west of Tunis. :
BEJA80
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86
French city, site of German airfield. :
CAEN87
Division of the Scythians. :
ALANS89
American Army surgeon (1851–1902). :
REED90
F. D. R.'s youngest son. :
JOHN91
93
Native of Bombay, India. :
BHOR94
95
Artificial fly for trout fishing. :
WRENTAIL97
Author of "Faerie Queene." :
SPENSER98
One not in army or navy: Slang. :
CIT99
Type of plane: Colloq. :
GIRO101
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103
104
105
106
107
108
109
Major Jap base in the Aleutians. :
KISKA110
New England girl in Hawthorne's "Marble Faun." :
HILDA111
112
114
Two cents in India. :
ANNA116
Prince of Afghanistan. :
AMIR117
118
Egyptian sacred bull. :
APIS120
122
125
Impertinent peeping. :
PRY128
Answer summary:
16 unique to this puzzle, 85 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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