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Agnes Cook
Words from the War Zones
New York Times, Sunday, October 1, 1944
17-Down : Yugoslavia's king.
Author:
Agnes Cook
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 150, Blocks: 73, Avg Word Len: 4.91, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 519 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 126, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 51, Grid flow: 22.4
Agnes Cook has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 C | 2 L | 3 A | 4 I | 5 R | 6 E | | 7 B | 8 O | 9 R | 10 I | 11 S | 12 O | 13 V | | 14 S | 15 A | 16 I | 17 P | 18 A | 19 N |
20 L | A | T | V | I | A | | 21 I | V | A | N | O | V | A | | 22 A | R | T | E | N | A |
23 E | N | H | A | T | S | | 24 J | A | V | E | L | I | N | | 25 S | I | S | T | E | R |
26 A | D | E | | 27 A | T | | 28 O | T | E | | 29 O | P | E | 30 N | E | D | | 31 E | N | D |
32 V | I | N | 33 A | | | 34 F | U | E | L | 35 S | | 36 A | D | I | B | | 37 A | R | T | S |
38 E | S | S | A | 39 Y | 40 E | R | | | | 41 P | 42 A | R | | 43 B | O | 44 I | L | | | |
| | | 45 L | E | N | I | 46 N | | 47 T | R | I | A | 48 L | S | | 49 R | E | 50 C | 51 A | 52 P |
53 P | 54 A | 55 M | | 56 M | O | T | E | | 57 R | I | L | L | E | | 58 G | R | E | E | N | E |
59 A | N | A | 60 C | E | S | | 61 W | 62 A | I | T | E | | 63 N | 64 O | R | A | | 65 L | I | T |
66 S | A | R | O | N | | 67 A | C | U | T | E | | 68 L | I | D | A | | 69 L | I | M | E |
70 A | C | I | D | | 71 P | L | A | N | E | | 72 B | A | N | D | Y | | 73 O | M | A | R |
74 D | R | A | Y | | 75 O | A | S | T | | 76 T | I | N | G | S | | 77 D | I | E | T | S |
78 E | E | N | | 79 B | L | E | T | | 80 U | R | G | E | R | | 81 B | O | R | N | E | O |
82 N | O | A | 83 T | A | K | | 84 L | 85 A | N | A | O | | 86 A | 87 D | A | R | | 88 E | R | N |
89 A | N | S | E | R | | 90 D | E | L | I | C | T | | 91 D | O | R | I | 92 S | | | |
| | | 93 A | R | 94 A | R | | 95 B | E | T | | | | 96 M | I | C | H | 97 A | 98 E | 99 L |
100 S | 101 P | 102 A | R | | 103 B | A | 104 T | A | | 105 S | 106 P | 107 A | 108 L | E | | | 109 Y | U | L | E |
110 O | L | D | | 111 M | U | T | I | N | 112 G | | 113 A | B | E | | 114 C | 115 M | | 116 T | A | R |
117 N | U | M | 118 F | O | R | | 119 M | E | A | 120 T | I | E | R | | 121 L | A | 122 S | H | I | O |
123 A | M | I | E | N | S | | 124 O | T | R | A | N | T | O | | 125 A | N | O | I | N | T |
126 R | E | T | E | S | T | | 127 R | A | Y | L | E | S | S | | 128 M | E | L | E | E | S |
© 1944, The New York TimesNo. 138
Across
1
7
14
U. S. victory N of Guam. :
SAIPAN20
21
Noted Russian woman flier. :
IVANOVA22
City near Via Casilina. :
ARTENA23
Puts a head covering on. :
ENHATS24
25
26
Late American humorist. :
ADE27
28
29
31
32
Indian guitar-like instrument. :
VINA34
36
37
38
41
43
45
Founder of "Comintern." :
LENIN47
Riom was the scene of these. :
TRIALS49
53
56
57
Valley on the moon. :
RILLE58
Winner at Eutaw Springs, 1781. :
GREENE59
61
U. S. Chief Justice, 1874–88. :
WAITE63
65
66
Javanese xylophone. :
SARON67
68
Polish commune W of Russian Minsk. :
LIDA69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
High pitched sounds. :
TINGS77
78
79
80
81
82
Alaskan river, 290 mi. to Kotzebue Sound. :
NOATAK84
Lake on Mindanao. :
LANAO86
88
89
Genus of graylag goose. :
ANSER90
91
Daughter of Oceanus. :
DORIS93
95
96
100
Coast Guard member. :
SPAR103
Seaport of Spanish Guinea in Rio Muni. :
BATA105
Ship's temporary cross timber. :
SPALE109
110
111
113
114
Two fifths of an inch. :
CM116
117
Captured air base, Netherlands New Guinea. :
NUMFOR119
121
Rail terminus in Upper Burma. :
LASHIO123
124
125
126
Make a new experiment. :
RETEST127
128
Down
1
2
3
4
5
6
Chennault's area of operations. :
EAST7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Having Weathercocks. :
VANED14
Jap city blasted by B-29's. :
SASEBO15
16
17
Yugoslavia's king. :
PETER18
19
30
33
34
35
37
To the sheltered side. :
ALEE39
Sana is its capital. :
YEMEN40
42
Winged, as birds: Her. :
AILE44
Babylonian god of war. :
IRRA46
47
48
50
Coquette in "Le Misanthrope." :
CELIMENE51
52
53
54
55
58
Discoverer of Columbia River (1755–1806). :
GRAY60
62
64
Unequal conditions. :
ODDS67
68
Secretary of Interior, 1913–20. :
LANE69
French river, 185 mi. to Sarthe. :
LOIR71
"Dark horse" of 1844. :
POLK72
Prejudiced person. :
BIGOT76
77
79
Deputy Chief, U. S. Armored Forces. :
BARR80
Italian island w. of Lussino. :
UNIE81
Port above Italian heel. :
BARI83
85
Mount ___, Allied victory near Cassino. :
ALBANETA87
90
92
94
97
98
John Barrymore's widow. :
ELAINE99
100
101
102
104
Strategic Malay island. :
TIMOR106
He wrote "Age of Reason." :
PAINE107
108
Bombed Aegean island. :
LEROS111
112
114
115
118
120
122
Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 42 debuted here and reused later, 13 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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