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W. W. Webster
Global Gleanings
New York Times, Sunday, February 17, 1946
8-Down : Member of the playground of Freemasonry.
Author:
W. W. Webster
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 64, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 547 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 132, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 47, Grid flow: 43.3
1 B | 2 A | 3 H | 4 A | 5 M | 6 A | 7 S | | 8 S | 9 P | 10 L | 11 A | 12 T | 13 S | | 14 T | 15 R | 16 U | 17 M | 18 A | 19 N |
20 A | M | E | L | I | T | A | | 21 H | O | I | H | O | W | | 22 R | U | S | I | N | E |
23 T | E | M | P | T | E | R | | 24 R | U | S | S | I | A | | 25 O | R | A | N | G | E |
26 A | R | A | | 27 S | E | D | 28 L | I | T | Z | | 29 L | I | 30 B | Y | A | | 31 C | O | D |
32 V | I | T | 33 A | | 34 S | O | O | N | | 35 T | 36 O | L | N | A | | 37 L | 38 O | I | R | E |
39 I | C | I | N | 40 G | | 41 U | S | E | 42 R | | 43 L | E | S | T | 44 E | | 45 G | O | A | D |
46 A | A | C | H | E | 47 N | | 48 T | R | O | 49 P | E | S | | 50 H | U | 51 L | L | | | |
| | | 52 A | L | U | 53 M | | | 54 M | A | I | S | 55 T | | 56 S | E | E | 57 T | 58 H | 59 E |
60 S | 61 I | 62 M | L | A | | 63 A | 64 D | 65 A | M | I | C | | 66 U | 67 N | T | A | R | R | E | D |
68 K | N | O | T | | 69 S | T | O | R | E | R | | 70 A | R | E | A | S | | 71 O | L | D |
72 I | S | A | | 73 S | C | H | W | E | L | L | 74 E | N | B | A | C | H | | 75 M | O | O |
76 M | E | N | | 77 W | R | E | N | S | | 78 I | N | N | A | T | E | | 79 E | S | T | E |
80 P | R | E | 81 M | I | E | R | E | | 82 I | N | S | A | N | E | | 83 C | R | O | S | S |
84 S | T | R | I | P | E | | 85 S | 86 A | N | G | A | | | 87 R | 88 H | E | A | | | |
| | | 89 L | E | D | 90 A | | 91 C | U | S | T | 92 E | 93 R | | 94 A | S | S | 95 E | 96 R | 97 T |
98 C | 99 O | 100 W | L | | 101 S | N | 102 E | E | R | | 103 E | D | O | 104 M | | 105 S | E | V | E | R |
106 H | U | R | S | 107 T | | 108 T | A | L | E | 109 S | | 110 W | A | A | 111 S | | 112 D | A | V | E |
113 A | T | E | | 114 W | 115 E | I | R | D | | 116 E | 117 L | A | M | I | T | 118 E | | 119 D | E | S |
120 I | S | A | 121 B | E | L | | 122 W | A | 123 R | R | E | R | | 124 T | E | M | 125 P | E | R | S |
126 S | E | T | E | E | S | | 127 I | M | A | G | E | D | | 128 R | E | M | O | R | S | E |
129 E | T | H | A | N | E | | 130 G | A | G | E | R | S | | 131 E | L | A | P | S | E | S |
© 1946, The New York TimesNo. 210
Across
1
8
14
Tenant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. :
TRUMAN20
Given name of Galli-Curci. :
AMELITA21
Treaty port of Hainan Island. :
HOIHOW22
23
24
One of the Big Three. :
RUSSIA25
Former Free State in Africa. :
ORANGE26
Southern constellation. :
ARA27
Noted Czecho-Slovakian mineral springs. :
SEDLITZ29
Where Tripoli is. :
LIBYA31
32
34
35
County in South Hungary. :
TOLNA37
Chief river of France. :
LOIRE39
41
43
Dry wind of Canary Islands. :
LESTE45
46
Charlemagne's Northern capital. :
AACHEN48
50
Former Secy. of State. :
HULL52
54
56
60
Site of Vice-Regal residence in India. :
SIMLA63
Yugoslavian-born American writer. :
ADAMIC66
68
69
Bellamy ___, ambassador recalled by T. R., 1906. :
STORER70
71
72
One in number, in the Philippines. :
ISA73
75
76
77
The English WAVES. :
WRENS78
79
Family into which Lucrezia Borgia married. :
ESTE80
Important occasion in Hollywood. :
PREMIERE82
83
Noted radio commentator. :
CROSS84
What a "clean-sleeve" aspires to. :
STRIPE85
Ox with 4-ft. horns. :
SANGA87
89
Mother of Castor and Pollux. :
LEDA91
Famous Indian fighter (1839–76). :
CUSTER94
98
Jane ___, American actress. :
COWL101
103
Country given to Esau. :
EDOM105
106
Author of "Lummox." :
HURST108
Fictitious accounts. :
TALES110
Peak in Utah, 12,319 feet. :
WAAS112
113
114
The ___ Sisters, in Macbeth. :
WEIRD116
Native of Biblical kingdom. :
ELAMITE119
120
122
124
126
127
Decorated with human figures. :
IMAGED128
129
Gas found in crude petroleum. :
ETHANE130
131
Down
1
2
3
4
What the Jungfrau is. :
ALP5
6
Root used as febrifuge. :
ATEES7
Author of "La Tosca." :
SARDOU8
Member of the playground of Freemasonry. :
SHRINER9
10
Father-in-law of Richard Wagner. :
LISZT11
Exclamations of delight. :
AHS12
13
14
Scene of the Iliad. :
TROY15
16
17
River flowing into the Po. :
MINCIO18
19
28
30
City in the Cotswolds. :
BATH33
German Free State, capital Dessau. :
ANHALT36
Derived from oil. :
OLEIC38
40
42
44
47
49
51
53
Colonial divine (1663–1728). :
MATHER55
Queen Mary's preference in hats. :
TURBAN57
58
59
60
61
62
64
65
67
69
70
73
74
79
81
Grinding machines. :
MILLS82
83
86
Potter's Field bought by Judas with thirty pieces of silver. :
ACELDAMA88
Exclamation of surprise. :
HA90
92
American philosopher (1703–58). :
EDWARDS93
95
96
97
98
99
100
102
104
107
109
111
115
117
Lascivious glance. :
LEER118
Novel by Jane Austen. :
EMMA121
123
125
Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 38 debuted here and reused later, 11 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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