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Agnes Cook
Happy News Year!
New York Times, Sunday, December 31, 1944
11-Down : ___ Tin Tin.
Author:
Agnes Cook
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 172, Blocks: 82, Avg Word Len: 5.20, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 619 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 159, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 69, Grid flow: 35.0
Agnes Cook has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 M | 2 O | 3 R | 4 O | 5 T | 6 A | 7 I | | 8 S | 9 C | 10 H | 11 R | 12 O | 13 E | 14 D | 15 E | 16 R | | 17 W | 18 A | 19 T | 20 A | 21 P |
22 E | V | E | R | E | T | T | | 23 L | O | U | I | S | I | A | D | E | | 24 I | R | E | N | E |
25 M | A | N | D | A | T | E | | 26 I | R | O | N | | 27 D | R | I | P | | 28 T | E | R | N | E |
29 O | T | T | E | R | | 30 R | 31 A | V | E | N | | 32 B | E | E | T | | | 33 S | A | M | A | R |
34 S | E | E | R | | 35 C | A | V | E | S | | 36 P | E | R | S | I | 37 A | 38 N | | 39 R | I | T | A |
| | | | 40 E | A | T | E | N | | 41 D | O | R | S | | 42 O | R | E | 43 S | | 44 T | O | G |
45 C | 46 H | 47 A | 48 R | T | R | E | S | | 49 L | I | M | N | | 50 A | N | G | O | U | 51 L | E | M | E |
52 R | A | C | I | A | L | | | 53 M | O | M | P | A | 54 C | H | | 55 O | N | T | O | | | |
56 A | L | T | O | | | | 57 N | I | N | E | | 58 D | U | S | 59 T | | 60 S | N | O | 61 O | 62 T | 63 S |
64 S | M | A | T | 65 T | 66 E | 67 R | I | N | G | | 68 H | O | R | A | R | 69 Y | | 70 A | P | A | R | T |
71 P | A | | 72 S | E | L | E | N | E | | 73 M | U | T | I | N | O | U | 74 S | | 75 S | T | O | A |
76 E | H | 77 S | | 78 M | A | I | N | | 79 P | A | N | T | O | | 80 P | L | A | 81 T | | 82 H | U | Y |
83 D | E | N | 84 S | | 85 S | M | I | 86 T | H | I | T | E | | 87 L | I | E | N | O | 88 R | | 89 V | L |
90 O | R | I | O | 91 N | | 92 S | E | R | I | N | S | | 93 B | E | S | S | A | R | A | 94 B | I | A |
95 N | A | P | L | E | 96 S | | 97 S | E | A | S | | 98 E | Y | O | T | | | | 99 T | A | L | C |
| | | 100 A | C | O | 101 R | | 102 A | L | H | 103 A | Z | E | N | | | 104 B | 105 E | A | G | L | E |
106 F | 107 R | 108 A | N | K | F | U | 109 R | T | | 110 E | R | R | S | | 111 H | 112 A | R | A | S | S | E | S |
113 R | U | T | | 114 S | I | N | E | | 115 S | E | N | A | | 116 K | A | T | A | R | | | | |
117 O | M | A | 118 R | | 119 A | T | L | 120 A | N | T | A | | 121 G | A | M | E | D | | 122 M | 123 O | 124 O | 125 D |
126 W | A | V | E | 127 S | | | 128 A | R | A | S | | 129 B | O | N | I | N | | 130 S | O | P | I | E |
131 A | N | I | S | E | | 132 I | T | E | R | | 133 S | O | U | S | | 134 I | 135 N | U | T | I | L | E |
136 R | I | S | E | N | | 137 C | O | N | E | 138 S | T | O | G | A | | 139 S | E | R | E | N | E | D |
140 D | A | T | E | S | | 141 E | R | A | D | I | A | T | E | S | | 142 T | E | E | T | E | R | S |
© 1944, The New York TimesNo. 151
Across
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Captured airfield S. of Mindanao. :
MOROTAI8
Nazi commander in "truce" at Calais. :
SCHROEDER17
Roots used as thread by Indians. :
WATAP22
Secretary of State, 1851. :
EVERETT23
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Famous Hollywood designer. :
IRENE25
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Dull in color: Fr. :
TERNE29
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Islands N. E. of Leyte. :
SAMAR34
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Gulf receiving Shatt-el-Arab. :
PERSIAN39
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Allied victory between Le Mans and Paris. :
CHARTRES49
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U. S. First Army victory N. of Trier. :
MOMPACH55
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___-Power Treaty, 1922. :
NINE58
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Belgian commune on Meuse. :
HUY83
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Hunter slain by Artemis. :
ORION92
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Occupied Oct. 1, 1943. :
NAPLES97
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102
Arabian philosopher, died 1038. :
ALHAZEN104
Charles Darwin's ship, 1831–36. :
BEAGLE106
110
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115
Seat of great bridge over Zambesi River. :
SENA116
117
119
Gov. Hartsfield's capital. :
ATLANTA121
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126
128
River in Armenia, 635 mi. to Kura :
ARAS129
Island group on road to Tokyo. :
BONIN130
Small drink: S. Africa. :
SOPIE131
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Down
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Bulgarian town near Burgas. :
SLIVEN9
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Gulf inlet of North Coral Sea. :
HUON11
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Boxer companion of Aeneas. :
DARES15
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Island in New Hebrides group. :
ANNATOM21
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Soldier of distinction under Napoleon. :
BERNADOTTE35
36
Brilliant display. :
POMP37
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Town in Central India. :
SUTNA45
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Southern guardian of MacArthur objective. :
HALMAHERA47
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Mohammedan divorce procedure. :
AHSAN51
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User of certain figures of speech. :
TROPIST61
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City N. E. of Paris. :
REIMS68
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Polynesian chestnuts. :
RATAS91
93
Unplayed golf holes. :
BYES94
96
Simeon's capital. :
SOFIA98
Famous Hebrew scribe. :
EZRA101
103
Wild buffalo of India. :
ARNA104
105
106
107
108
Reverter to primitive type. :
ATAVIST109
111
Town in E. Sinkiang. :
HAMI112
115
116
Ike's home, sweet home. :
KANSAS118
120
121
122
Choral composition. :
MOTET123
124
125
Written contracts. :
DEEDS127
Cathedral town, central France. :
SENS129
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132
133
135
138
Answer summary:
19 unique to this puzzle, 50 debuted here and reused later, 8 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 19 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 50 additional words that debuted in this puzzle and were later reused (total number of puzzles in brackets):
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Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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