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Willard N. Jordan
Global Reporter
New York Times, Sunday, September 30, 1945
35-Down : Romans of Virgil's time.
Author:
Willard N. Jordan
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 67, Avg Word Len: 5.27, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 534 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 120, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 53, Grid flow: 39.0
David Steinberg notes:
In 97-Down clue, removed colon after "Bonaparte."
| 1 N | 2 A | 3 G | 4 O | 5 Y | 6 A | | 7 O | 8 S | 9 H | 10 I | 11 M | 12 A | | 13 N | 14 A | 15 G | 16 A | 17 T | 18 O |
19 M | O | L | O | T | O | V | | 20 K | E | I | T | E | L | | 21 A | M | A | M | O | N |
22 A | M | B | O | I | N | A | | 23 I | N | R | O | L | L | | 24 H | O | R | A | C | E |
25 R | I | A | | 26 C | A | L | 27 E | N | D | S | | 28 L | E | 29 M | A | Y | | 30 M | O | I |
31 I | N | N | 32 S | | 33 I | O | W | A | | 34 E | 35 L | O | G | E | | | 36 R | I | M | S |
37 N | A | I | A | 38 S | | 39 N | E | W | 40 S | | 41 A | W | E | S | 42 T | | 43 A | S | E | M |
44 E | L | A | I | N | 45 E | | 46 R | A | T | 47 I | T | E | | 48 S | H | 49 I | N | | | |
| | | 50 P | A | N | 51 A | Y | | 52 O | X | I | D | 53 E | | 54 A | N | D | 55 I | 56 N | 57 O |
58 G | 59 A | 60 R | A | P | A | N | | 61 E | R | I | N | | 62 M | 63 A | I | D | A | N | E | K |
64 O | M | E | N | | 65 R | O | 66 A | D | M | A | S | 67 T | E | R | | 68 I | N | D | R | A |
69 D | O | G | | 70 C | E | I | L | E | | | | 71 I | S | A | 72 A | C | | 73 R | I | P |
74 I | R | E | 75 N | A | | 76 N | O | N | 77 C | 78 H | 79 A | L | A | N | T | | 80 F | I | N | I |
81 V | E | N | E | R | 82 A | T | E | | 83 L | A | C | E | | 84 H | E | 85 A | R | S | E | S |
86 A | T | T | L | E | E | | 87 S | 88 M | I | T | H | | 89 S | A | B | R | A | | | |
| | | 90 S | W | O | 91 W | | 92 O | C | E | A | 93 N | A | | 94 A | E | N | 95 E | 96 A | 97 S |
98 M | 99 O | 100 N | O | | 101 N | O | 102 T | C | H | | 103 R | A | R | 104 E | | 105 S | C | U | L | L |
106 O | P | E | N | | | 107 R | A | C | E | 108 S | | 109 T | U | L | 110 E | | 111 O | R | L | O |
112 R | I | G | | 113 U | 114 I | N | T | A | | 115 C | 116 E | A | S | I | N | 117 G | | 118 A | N | A |
119 G | A | R | 120 A | N | D | | 121 A | S | 122 K | A | N | T | | 123 S | T | A | 124 S | S | E | N |
125 A | T | O | N | A | L | | 126 R | I | A | L | T | O | | 127 H | E | L | O | I | S | E |
128 N | E | S | T | L | E | | 129 S | N | Y | D | E | R | | 130 A | R | A | B | A | S | |
© 1945, The New York TimesNo. 190
Across
1
City to be occupied Oct. 23, 6th Division. :
NAGOYA7
Nipponese prize taken in Germany. :
OSHIMA13
Remnant of Jap fleet. :
NAGATO19
Red member of "super peace council." :
MOLOTOV20
One of the arch war criminals. :
KEITEL21
Imaginary king of East: Var. :
AMAMON22
23
24
Quintus H. Flaccus, golden age poet. :
HORACE25
26
First day of Roman months. :
CALENDS28
Planner of B-29 raids on Tokyo. :
LEMAY30
31
33
Mighty U. S. dreadnought. :
IOWA34
36
Mountings for tires. :
RIMS37
Genus of aquatic plants. :
NAIAS39
41
Toward the setting sun. :
AWEST43
Artificial gold or silver of Egypt. :
ASEM44
46
Bird of ostrich family. :
RATITE48
50
Iloilo is its capital. :
PANAY52
54
His capital is Tegucigalpa. :
ANDINO58
Capital of 20th Air Force base. :
GARAPAN61
Bogland to a poet. :
ERIN62
64
65
68
Thunder-god of Vedic myth. :
INDRA69
70
Farmer in old Ireland. :
CEILE71
Father of Jacob and Esau. :
ISAAC73
America's Peter Klaus. :
RIP74
Spenser's Emerald Isle. :
IRENA76
80
81
83
Chantilly product. :
LACE84
86
87
Marines call him "Howlin' Mad." :
SMITH89
Heroine in St. George and the Dragon ballads. :
SABRA90
Minced oath: U. S. :
SWOW92
Ideal republic of James Harrington. :
OCEANA94
98
101
103
105
106
107
109
111
112
113
Mountains in Beehive State. :
UINTA115
118
119
121
123
Admiral Halsey's flag secretary. :
STASSEN125
126
Haunt of theatrical Broadwayites. :
RIALTO127
128
129
130
Down
1
2
Old romantic name of Highland region, Scotland. :
ALBANIA3
Sticky substance: Slang. :
GOO4
5
Japan's ex-Navy Minister. :
YONAI6
7
Future U. S. Pacific base. :
OKINAWA8
9
The broomcorn millet. :
HIRSE10
Jap admiral killed in suicide attack at Okinawa. :
ITO11
12
13
Capital of Ryukyus. :
NAHA14
Port on Taiwan Strait. :
AMOY15
16
Islands of N Ryukyus. :
AMAMIS17
18
19
One of Gen. Geiger's men. :
MARINE27
29
32
New 14,500-ton U. S. carrier. :
SAIPAN35
Romans of Virgil's time. :
LATINS36
Boat having three rowers. :
RANDAN38
40
42
45
47
Genus of corn lilies. :
IXIA49
Of the Land of Regrets. :
INDIC51
53
Ancient name of Homs, Syria. :
EMESA55
Largest Madagascan lemurs. :
INDRIS56
57
Giraffe's close relatives. :
OKAPIS58
Coventry's famous bareback rider. :
GODIVA59
Character in Faerie Queene. :
AMORET60
Titular role of Archbishop Damaskinos. :
REGENT61
Bevin's predecessor. :
EDEN63
Mediator of Peruvian-Ecuadorian border agreement. :
ARANHA66
67
70
King of Beggars: 1693–1770. :
CAREW72
Nomadic Bedouin tribe. :
ATEBA75
77
78
79
Pickled bamboo shoots: India. :
ACHAR80
82
85
88
89
Former name of Seyhan River, Turkey. :
SARUS91
93
95
About 20 million square miles. :
EURASIA96
97
Author of Napoleon Bonaparte (1850–1928). :
SLOANE98
Founder of New York's E. 36th St. Library. :
MORGAN99
100
Bacolod is its capital. :
NEGROS102
Stalinites in Kazan area. :
TATARS104
108
Any Norse epicist. :
SCALD110
113
114
116
Grafted, in heraldry. :
ENTE117
120
122
King Arthur's foster brother. :
KAY124
Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 42 debuted here and reused later, 13 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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