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Willard N. Jordan
Of People and Places
New York Times, Sunday, January 25, 1948
3-Down : Grating machine.
Author:
Willard N. Jordan
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 166, Blocks: 79, Avg Word Len: 5.42, Missing: { Q }, Scrabble score: 671 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 140, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 51, Grid flow: 43.9
David Steinberg notes:
In the 84-Down clue, corrected the year range from 1926-35 to 1934-35, since this clue's subject didn't technically become queen until 1934.
1 C | 2 A | 3 R | 4 I | 5 A | 6 S | | 7 P | 8 A | 9 R | 10 A | | 11 O | 12 M | 13 A | 14 R | | 15 B | 16 R | 17 U | 18 M | 19 A | 20 L |
21 A | R | A | B | I | C | | 22 E | L | I | Z | 23 A | B | E | T | H | | 24 A | U | R | O | R | A |
25 C | O | S | I | M | A | | 26 R | I | G | O | L | E | T | T | O | | 27 F | R | E | N | C | H |
28 T | U | P | S | | 29 R | 30 U | D | E | | 31 V | I | S | A | | 32 D | 33 A | T | A | | 34 O | H | O |
35 U | S | E | | | 36 F | L | I | N | 37 T | | 38 S | E | L | 39 D | O | M | | 40 L | 41 A | D | E | R |
42 S | E | R | 43 G | 44 E | | 45 S | T | A | R | 46 C | H | | 47 W | I | R | E | 48 S | | 49 P | Y | R | E |
| | | 50 A | G | 51 I | T | A | T | O | R | | 52 H | A | V | A | N | E | 53 S | E | | | |
54 A | 55 N | 56 O | D | Y | N | E | | 57 E | Y | E | 58 S | O | R | E | | 59 A | C | T | R | 60 E | 61 S | 62 S |
63 H | O | T | S | P | U | R | 64 S | | | 65 S | I | N | E | | 66 A | B | R | A | | 67 Y | E | T |
68 O | T | O | | 69 T | R | E | Y | | 70 A | C | R | E | | 71 A | L | L | E | G | 72 H | E | N | Y |
73 Y | A | L | 74 U | | 75 E | D | E | 76 R | L | E | | 77 Y | 78 E | R | B | Y | | 79 E | S | S | E | X |
| 80 B | O | R | 81 E | D | | 82 N | E | O | N | | 83 M | A | M | A | | 84 A | R | I | E | S | |
85 S | I | G | I | L | | 86 L | I | N | E | T | | 87 O | R | A | N | 88 T | S | | 89 A | R | C | 90 H |
91 E | L | I | M | I | 92 N | A | T | E | | 93 A | 94 M | O | S | | 95 I | O | T | 96 A | | 97 V | E | E |
98 L | I | S | | 99 S | A | N | E | | 100 O | D | I | N | | | 101 A | U | R | U | 102 L | E | N | T |
103 F | A | T | 104 U | O | I | D | | 105 T | H | E | R | E | 106 S | 107 A | | 108 S | I | G | U | R | T | H |
| | | 109 D | R | A | W | 110 A | R | M | S | | 111 R | E | S | 112 O | L | D | E | R | | | |
113 A | 114 G | 115 U | E | | 116 S | A | G | U | M | | 117 I | S | T | H | M | I | | 118 R | E | 119 A | 120 R | 121 S |
122 T | O | N | T | 123 O | | 124 S | A | K | E | 125 E | N | | 126 H | I | N | N | 127 O | | | 128 L | E | E |
129 H | A | L | | 130 J | 131 O | H | N | | 132 T | R | I | 133 O | | 134 M | I | G | S | | 135 B | R | A | N |
136 E | L | O | 137 G | E | S | | 138 I | 139 D | E | O | G | R | 140 A | M | S | | 141 C | 142 A | R | U | S | O |
143 N | E | V | A | D | A | | 144 C | O | R | D | O | N | N | E | T | | 145 A | G | E | N | O | R |
146 S | E | E | G | A | R | | 147 E | R | S | E | | 148 A | I | R | S | | 149 R | O | W | E | N | A |
© 1948, The New York TimesNo. 311
Across
1
President in Tegucigalpa. :
CARIAS7
Belem's other name. :
PARA11
"Emperor of Believers" (582–644). :
OMAR15
21
Language of Ibn Saud's people. :
ARABIC22
24
Miss Leigh, Browning heroine. :
AURORA25
She married Richard Wagner. :
COSIMA26
27
Premier Schuman's langue du pays. :
FRENCH28
29
31
Foreign travel permit. :
VISA32
34
35
36
City NW of Detroit. :
FLINT38
40
42
45
Chief source of dextrose. :
STARCH47
49
50
52
Residents of West Indies capital. :
HAVANESE54
57
59
63
65
66
Canyon mouth in southwest U. S. :
ABRA67
68
69
70
Seaport opposite Haifa. :
ACRE71
73
Stream bounding Manchuria and Korea. :
YALU75
Gotham-born Channel swimmer. :
EDERLE77
Author of "The Vixens." :
YERBY79
First of U. S. 27,000-ton carriers. :
ESSEX80
82
1898 Ramsay-Travers discovery. :
NEON83
84
Diurnal house of Mars. :
ARIES85
86
Lady championed by Gareth. :
LINET87
89
91
93
Freeman Gosden on the radio. :
AMOS95
97
98
Heraldric emblem of France. :
LIS99
100
Brother of Vili and Ve. :
ODIN101
103
105
One of Spain's patron saints. :
THERESA108
109
Retracting bars of printing presses. :
DRAWARMS111
113
116
Roman garb of war. :
SAGUM117
118
122
Lone Ranger's Indian. :
TONTO124
126
Largest of Vesteraalen islands: NW Norway. :
HINNO128
He captured John Brown, 1859. :
LEE129
Prince in "Henry IV." :
HAL130
King who set his seal on Magna Carta, 1215. :
JOHN132
134
135
136
138
141
Sensation of Met's 1903 season. :
CARUSO143
144
145
146
147
148
149
Down
1
Source of Arizona's State Flower. :
CACTUS2
3
4
Sacred Egyptian wader. :
IBIS5
6
Official sash indicating rank. :
SCARF7
Shepherdess wooed by Prince Florizel. :
PERDITA8
9
10
11
12
13
Minor Siamese coin. :
ATT14
Plant of Emerson's poem, 1839. :
RHODORA15
16
17
18
Song with single voice part. :
MONODY19
20
Scene of Kim's boyhood. :
LAHORE23
Like October brew. :
ALISH30
33
37
Cassandra prophesied its fall. :
TROY39
41
43
44
Kingdom of the Ptolemies. :
EGYPT46
48
51
52
53
Veteran of the footlights. :
STAGER54
Sailor's "Hey there!" :
AHOY55
56
58
60
Servant that shirks unless watched. :
EYESERVER61
62
River of Charon's ferry. :
STYX64
Igneous rock of Upper Egypt. :
SYENITE66
Home of the Tosks and Ghegs. :
ALBANIA70
71
___ virumque cano. :
ARMA72
First Chinese dynasty. :
HSIA74
___ and Thummim, Mormon "interpreters." :
URIM76
78
81
84
Queen of the Belgians, 1934–35. :
ASTRID85
Personal interest. :
SELF86
88
90
Biblical ancestor of the Hittites. :
HETH92
Genus of aquatic plants. :
NAIAS94
Village community in Russia. :
MIR96
100
Indicators showing electrical resistance. :
OHMMETERS102
104
German ace of World War 1 (1896–1941). :
UDET105
Former Pacific stronghold. :
TRUK106
107
110
Witch who pulled the moon from the sky: Gr. myth. :
AGANICE112
Those believing in all religions. :
OMNISTS113
"Violet-crowned" city. :
ATHENS114
115
117
Name confused with Ignatius. :
INIGO119
Seeress of ancient Germany: Var. :
ALRUNE120
121
123
Spanish adventurer with Columbus (1465–1515). :
OJEDA125
127
131
Subglacial sand ridges. :
OSAR133
Wine measure of Trieste. :
ORNA135
137
139
140
142
Answer summary:
25 unique to this puzzle, 26 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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