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Elizabeth Patterson
Global Gleanings
New York Times, Sunday, July 15, 1945
94-Down : Wainscot.
Author:
Elizabeth Patterson
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 168, Blocks: 75, Avg Word Len: 5.40, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 646 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 162, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 71, Grid flow: 44.7
David Steinberg notes:
In original 96-Down clue, period was outside parentheses; moved it inside.
1 F | 2 O | 3 R | 4 M | 5 O | 6 S | 7 A | | 8 K | 9 I | 10 A | 11 N | 12 G | 13 S | 14 I | | 15 S | 16 A | 17 R | 18 A | 19 W | 20 A | 21 K |
22 E | C | U | A | D | O | R | | 23 A | N | N | U | L | E | T | | 24 T | R | A | P | A | N | I |
25 R | E | S | H | A | P | E | | 26 G | E | S | T | U | R | E | | 27 A | D | D | E | N | D | A |
28 R | A | S | E | | 29 O | N | 30 T | O | | 31 A | S | T | I | | 32 E | R | O | S | | 33 D | O | N |
34 A | N | I | | 35 P | R | A | I | S | 36 E | | | 37 S | N | 38 Y | D | E | R | | 39 B | E | R | G |
40 R | I | A | 41 T | A | | 42 S | A | H | A | 43 R | 44 A | | 45 D | O | G | S | | 46 P | A | R | R | S |
47 A | C | N | O | D | 48 E | | 49 R | I | V | E | R | 50 S | I | D | E | | 51 N | A | S | S | A | U |
| | | 52 M | U | T | 53 T | | 54 M | E | D | I | C | A | L | | 55 W | A | L | T | | | |
56 A | 57 P | 58 T | | 59 C | O | R | 60 E | A | | 61 A | S | H | | 62 E | 63 N | I | G | M | A | 64 T | 65 I | 66 C |
67 M | A | R | 68 I | A | N | A | S | | 69 E | N | T | I | 70 A | | 71 A | L | G | A | | 72 A | S | A |
73 B | L | U | S | H | | 74 S | T | 75 A | N | | 76 O | S | T | 77 E | N | D | E | | 78 G | R | I | S |
79 R | A | N | I | | 80 L | I | O | N | E | 81 L | | 82 T | A | N | K | E | R | | 83 L | A | D | E |
84 O | W | N | S | | 85 A | M | I | T | I | E | 86 S | | 87 L | A | I | R | | 88 D | I | K | O | A |
89 S | A | E | | 90 O | R | E | L | | 91 D | A | C | 92 C | A | | 93 N | I | 94 C | O | B | A | R | S |
95 E | N | L | 96 I | V | E | N | E | 97 D | | 98 P | O | A | | 99 A | G | N | E | S | | 100 N | E | E |
| | | 101 D | O | D | O | | 102 R | 103 E | E | V | I | 104 N | G | | 105 G | I | S | 106 T | | | |
107 I | 108 L | 109 O | I | L | O | | 110 H | I | N | D | E | R | E | R | 111 S | | 112 L | I | R | 113 A | 114 T | 115 E |
116 D | A | R | O | O | | 117 F | A | N | O | | 118 L | O | W | E | L | 119 L | | 120 E | A | S | E | L |
121 E | M | I | T | | 122 E | L | M | I | R | 123 A | | | 124 S | E | A | E | 125 A | R | | 126 I | R | A |
127 A | B | E | | 128 A | N | A | M | | 129 M | E | 130 A | 131 D | | 132 M | Y | T | H | | 133 B | A | R | I |
134 T | E | N | 135 E | D | O | S | | 136 A | I | R | L | I | 137 K | E | | 138 T | I | 139 B | E | T | A | N |
140 E | T | T | R | I | C | K | | 141 S | T | I | M | S | O | N | | 142 I | G | R | A | I | N | E |
143 S | H | E | A | T | H | S | | 144 E | Y | E | S | H | O | T | | 145 C | H | A | N | C | E | S |
© 1945, The New York TimesNo. 179
Across
1
8
Province, its capital Nanchang. :
KIANGSI15
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
31
32
33
34
35
37
County in Pennsylvania. :
SNYDER39
40
Westerner's rope. :
RIATA42
Region of the Tuaregs. :
SAHARA45
Heroes of Terhune's stories. :
DOGS46
47
Geometrical point of curve. :
ACNODE49
51
Duke of Windsor's former capital. :
NASSAU52
Comic-strip character. :
MUTT54
Of wearers of the caduceus. :
MEDICAL55
First name of "Good Gray Poet." :
WALT56
59
Former Asiatic kingdom: Var. :
COREA61
62
67
69
71
72
Jehoshaphat's father. :
ASA73
74
76
78
79
80
Brother of John and Ethel. :
LIONEL82
Important cargo ship. :
TANKER83
84
85
87
88
Walled town S. of Lake Chad. :
DIKOA89
"Wha ___ base as be a slave?"—Burns. :
SAE90
Russian battle city. :
OREL91
City N. E. of Calcutta. :
DACCA93
95
98
Kentucky blue grass. :
POA99
100
101
"Alice in Wonderland" creature. :
DODO102
105
107
110
112
116
The Egyptian sycamore. :
DAROO117
Island off Jutland. :
FANO118
"Vision of Sir Launfal" author. :
LOWELL120
121
122
Summer home of Mark Twain. :
ELMIRA124
126
127
President's nickname. :
ABE128
Where Hue is: Var. :
ANAM129
Lake formed by Boulder Dam. :
MEAD132
133
Italian port N.W. of Brindisi. :
BARI134
Aegean island near Dardanelles. :
TENEDOS136
138
140
Birthplace of James Hogg. :
ETTRICK141
142
143
144
145
Down
1
2
3
4
Chief island of Seychelles, Indian Ocean. :
MAHE5
6
7
8
9
Warlike Saxon king. :
INE10
11
McAuliffe's reply at Bastogne. :
NUTS12
13
Asiatic region, including Sinkiang. :
SERINDIA14
Citizen of: Suffix. :
ITE15
16
17
Units of light energy. :
RADS18
Tarzan's foster mother. :
APE19
20
Republic between France and Spain. :
ANDORRA21
30
32
New Jersey's Governor. :
EDGE35
Irvin Cobb's Kentucky home. :
PADUCAH36
38
39
Queen of spades in solo. :
BASTA41
43
44
46
Capital of Majorca. :
PALMA48
Thames river town. :
ETON50
Easily-split variety of rock. :
SCHIST51
53
55
56
Channel across Sandy Hook. :
AMBROSE57
58
60
Six-pointed heraldic star. :
ESTOILE63
China's "Southern Capital." :
NANKING64
Island invaded by Australians. :
TARAKAN65
Famous Bishop of Seville. :
ISIDORE66
68
69
Vergil's epic: Var. :
ENEID70
Novel by Chateaubriand, 1801. :
ATALA75
77
Last Spanish Queen. :
ENA78
80
81
86
Mop for sweeping ovens. :
SCOVEL88
Papers containing detailed information. :
DOSSIER90
92
Famous Nile city. :
CAIRO94
96
Novel by Dostoevski. (With
The.) :
IDIOT97
Albanian river, to Adriatic. :
DRINI99
103
104
106
107
108
London area, famed in song. :
LAMBETH109
Region claimed by Peru and Ecuador. :
ORIENTE110
City near Dortmund. :
HAMM111
113
114
115
117
119
122
Biblical patriarch. :
ENOCH123
125
128
130
131
133
135
136
Peer Gynt's mother. :
ASE137
Chinese statesman, Wellington ___. :
KOO139
Italian town, S. of Turin. :
BRA
Answer summary:
12 unique to this puzzle, 59 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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