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Charles Cross
WITH A FLAVOR OF NEWS
New York Times, Sunday, March 1, 1942
10-Down : School town in Massachusetts.
Author:
Charles Cross
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 174 , Blocks: 78 , Avg Word Len: 5.18 , Missing: { J Q Z } , Scrabble score: 644 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 122 , Cheaters: 0 , FITB: 5 , XRef: 0 , Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 168 , Grid flow: 21.7
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© 1942, The New York Times No. 3
Across
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Mountain in Thessaly. :
OSSA 11
Malaysian boat with outrigger. :
PROA 15
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Sharp corner in mining passage. :
ARRAGE 25
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Tap monotonously. :
THRUM 31
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Anglo-Saxon coins. :
ORAS 37
Norse goddess of healing. :
EIR 38
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17 million square miles. :
ASIA 40
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German field marshal. :
LIST 54
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"Love ___, trust a few."—Taming of the Shrew. :
ALL 64
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Hawaiian milkfish. :
AUAS 68
Fiord on Zealand Island, Denmark. :
ISSE 69
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Pith helmet for jungle fighters. :
TOPI 72
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Philippine children. :
BATAS 74
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She believed in maiden names. :
LUCY 84
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South African Dutch. :
TAAL 87
Town in Northeastern Thailand. :
NAN 88
"And drink of Adam's ___."—Prior. :
ALE 89
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He thinks he can do business with Hitler. :
APPEASER 102
First Englishman to sail around the globe. :
DRAKE 105
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Talk incoherently. :
RAVE 112
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"It was a mighty while ___."—Jonson. :
AGO 115
Isles off Ireland. :
ARAN 116
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Magistrate of Genoa. :
DOGE 119
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Japanese statesman, 1858-1934. :
ITO 122
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Instrument for obliterating. :
ERASER 129
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Strait between Isle of Wight and England. :
SOLENT 132
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What the Axis is to U. S. :
THREAT 4
Sound of an airplane motor. :
HUM 5
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Kind of battles we used to have. :
SHAM 9
Tributary of the Vistula. :
SAN 10
School town in Massachusetts. :
ANDOVER 11
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Put new tires on these. :
RIMS 13
S. A. linguistic stock. :
ONA 14
Efforts to put men out on bases. :
ASSISTS 15
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Seaport near Barcelona. :
MATARO 19
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Perforating by machine-gun fire. :
RIDDLING 33
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Places where congers are caught. :
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Tributary of the Rhone. :
ARVE 45
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Atoms plus electrons. :
IONS 50
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Mexican rubber trees. :
ULES 60
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Body of armed Zulus. :
IMPI 62
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Othello's "ancient." :
IAGO 70
Ammunition holder. :
TRAY 71
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A drug, transposal of narcotin. :
COTARNIN 81
Captured province in Luzon; capital Bacolor. :
PAMPANGA 82
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Book of New Testament. :
LUKE 85
Filibeg worn by Lady from Hell. :
KILT 86
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Canadian province; capital, Edmonton. :
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Involved in trouble. :
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Warning lacking at Pearl Harbor. :
ALERT 117
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Hitler's "merest utensil." :
DUCE 119
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"___ Eulenspiegel." :
TIL 125
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Answer summary:15 unique to this puzzle , 153 debuted here and reused later .
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Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 15 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 153 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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