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G. O. Butler
With Clues from the News
New York Times, Sunday, May 14, 1944
99-Down : Skin disease.
Author:
G. O. Butler
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 174, Blocks: 82, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 667 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 154, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 81, Grid flow: 14.8
1 S | 2 T | 3 A | 4 P | 5 L | 6 E | | 7 W | 8 E | 9 W | 10 A | 11 K | | 12 C | 13 L | 14 A | 15 R | 16 K | | 17 A | 18 B | 19 C | 20 S |
21 H | A | R | R | O | W | | 22 A | R | A | W | E | | 23 R | E | S | U | E | | 24 P | E | R | T |
25 A | R | R | I | V | E | | 26 N | A | S | A | L | | 27 E | I | S | E | N | 28 H | O | W | E | R |
29 H | O | O | P | E | R | 30 S | | 31 S | H | I | P | | 32 A | S | E | | 33 T | A | R | A | W | A |
| | 34 G | E | R | | 35 C | 36 O | M | E | T | | 37 S | T | U | N | 38 T | | 39 G | I | L | E | T |
40 S | 41 C | A | T | | 42 M | O | R | U | S | | 43 L | A | E | R | T | E | 44 S | | 45 A | L | L | O |
46 P | E | T | | 47 T | O | R | A | S | | 48 C | E | R | | 49 E | E | L | E | 50 R | S | | | |
51 E | R | I | 52 D | A | N | I | D | | 53 B | O | N | D | 54 S | | 55 R | I | P | E | | 56 C | 57 A | 58 P |
59 C | R | O | A | T | I | A | | 60 C | O | R | S | I | C | 61 A | | 62 C | A | M | 63 I | L | L | E |
64 K | O | N | Y | A | K | | 65 T | A | S | K | | 66 N | U | N | 67 S | | 68 L | A | D | O | G | A |
| | | | 69 R | E | 70 H | A | S | H | | 71 N | I | M | I | T | 72 Z | | 73 N | E | V | E | L |
74 G | 75 A | 76 S | 77 P | | 78 R | I | M | S | | 79 H | I | A | | 80 M | E | E | 81 T | | 82 S | E | R | S |
83 U | N | C | A | 84 P | | 85 S | P | I | 86 G | O | T | | 87 C | A | L | A | I | 88 S | | | | |
89 D | A | R | R | O | 90 W | | 91 A | N | E | W | | 92 B | O | L | E | | 93 S | I | 94 G | 95 I | 96 L | 97 S |
98 E | P | I | C | A | R | 99 P | | 100 O | M | I | 101 N | O | U | S | | 102 V | A | T | U | T | I | N |
103 N | A | P | | 104 L | I | S | 105 P | | 106 S | T | O | N | E | | 107 T | I | N | A | M | I | N | E |
| | | 108 L | E | N | O | R | 109 E | | 110 Z | I | G | | 111 T | I | G | E | R | | 112 N | E | E |
113 M | 114 A | 115 C | Y | | 116 G | R | A | S | 117 P | E | R | | 118 B | E | T | I | S | | 119 H | E | R | R |
120 A | R | A | R | 121 A | | 122 A | C | T | O | R | | 123 B | O | H | O | L | | 124 P | E | R | | |
125 S | E | N | I | L | 126 E | | 127 T | O | L | | 128 S | E | R | E | | 129 S | 130 T | O | R | A | 131 G | 132 E |
133 C | O | N | C | E | R | 134 T | I | N | A | | 135 C | A | I | R | 136 O | | 137 O | R | A | T | E | D |
138 O | L | E | A | | 139 R | O | S | I | N | | 140 U | L | N | A | D | | 141 S | I | L | E | N | E |
142 T | E | L | L | | 143 S | T | E | A | D | | 144 T | E | E | N | S | | 145 S | A | D | D | E | N |
© 1944, The New York TimesNo. 118
Across
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Much-bombed New Guinea base. :
WEWAK12
U. S. Fifth Army general. :
CLARK17
21
Famous Middlesex school. :
HARROW22
New Britain peninsula. :
ARAWE23
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Uttered through nose. :
NASAL27
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Peer Gynt's mother. :
ASE33
34
Proselyte to Judaism. :
GER35
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42
Genus of the mulberry. :
MORUS43
45
Other: Comb. form. :
ALLO46
47
East African hartebeests. :
TORAS48
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51
Meteor radiant from near Taurus. :
ERIDANID53
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Island reoccupied by Fighting French. :
CORSICA62
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Native of Naga Hills, Burma. :
KONYAK65
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Lake between Russian and Finland. :
LADOGA69
71
Admiral in command of Pacific strategy. :
NIMITZ73
Town near White Russian border. :
NEVEL74
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Seaport on "Rocket Coast." :
CALAIS89
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Pronounce imperfectly. :
LISP106
Supreme Court justice. :
STONE107
Pertaining to South American quail. :
TINAMINE108
110
111
U. S. flier under Chennault. :
TIGER112
113
American author (1877–1932). :
MACY116
118
Oil-yielding Philippine tree. :
BETIS119
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Island near Mindanao. :
BOHOL124
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133
135
137
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Ingredient of soap. :
ROSIN140
Toward forearm's inner bone. :
ULNAD141
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High school years. :
TEENS145
Down
1
Persian ruler's title. :
SHAH2
3
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8
Dutch scholar (1466–1536). :
ERASMUS9
10
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16
Where Maidstone is. :
KENT17
Matters professed: Rhetoric. :
APORIAS18
19
20
Cloud form: Comb. form. :
STRATO28
30
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Island returned to Italian civil control. :
SARDINIA38
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Tramp's identifying sign. :
MONIKER43
Pas-de-Calais town. :
LENS44
47
Pass in the Carpathians. :
TATAR48
City in Irish Free State. :
CORK50
Equip with new troops. :
REMAN52
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North Algerian department. :
ALGER58
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74
Longest river of Denmark. :
GUDEN75
Seaport near Novorossiisk. :
ANAPA76
77
Recreation ground: Fr. :
PARC79
81
84
Jewish Socialist Labor party, ___ Zion. :
POALE86
87
French pharmacist (1857–1926). :
COUE88
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102
105
107
Marshal Brozovich. :
TITO108
109
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119
121
123
English microscopist (1828–1906). :
BEALE124
Genus of pore fungi. :
PORIA126
128
130
131
Inheritable factor. :
GENE132
Leader of House of Commons. :
EDEN134
136
Hypothetical forces. :
ODS
Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 70 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Analysis
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Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 11 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 70 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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