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HEADLINES AND FOOTNOTES
New York Times, Sunday, February 15, 1942
Author:
Charles Erlenkotter
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 168 , Blocks: 79 , Avg Word Len: 5.36 , Missing: { J Q X } , Scrabble score: 650 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 146 , Cheaters: 2 , FITB: 4 , XRef: 0 , Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 168
Jim Horne notes:
This is the first crossword published by the New York Times.
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© 1942, The New York Times No. 1
Across
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Famous one-eyed general. :
WAVELL 7
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Middle name of news commentator. :
GRAM 15
Alphabet of 28 letters. :
ARABIC 21
Flier lost in Pacific, 1937. :
AMELIA 22
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Equipment of Jack Ketch. :
ROPE 24
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Stops the vent of a cannon. :
SPIKES 26
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Black Sea naval base. :
ODESSA 29
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Italian poet laureate (1544–1595). :
TASSO 34
Near East country: Abbr. :
TUR 35
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Inhabitants of Jolo, S. W. Philippines. :
SULUS 46
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"Information Please" expert. :
FPA 55
"I have not ___ one wink."—Cymbeline. :
SLEPT 57
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Power used in the Clermont. :
STEAM 66
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Native Hindu in British Army. :
SEPOY 72
Mr. Whitney, inventor of cotton gin. :
ELI 73
Lake of which Put-in-Bay is a part. :
ERIE 74
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Buffalo-nut of China. :
TRAPA 80
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Point of mariner's compass. :
RHUMB 84
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Mouth of a river: Sp. :
BOCA 93
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G-man Hoover's middle name. :
EDGAR 96
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Basket made of rushes. :
FRAIL 98
Geneva, in German. :
GENF 100
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Place in the earth. :
INTER 106
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50 mi. island W. of New Guinea. :
MISOL 115
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Pertaining to a nobleman. :
DUCAL 120
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Of age (Lat. abbr.). :
AET 129
Mastery in works of taste. :
ART 130
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Buy 50 Defense Stamps with this. :
VEE 136
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Device for indicating speed of blood circulation. :
RHEOMETER 140
Member of Mormon band, "Destroying Angels." :
DANITE 142
Agricultural implement. :
BINDER 143
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"Men's evil manners ___ in brass."—King Henry VIII. :
LIVE 145
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Indefinite quantity. :
DEAL 149
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French physicist, student of electrodynamics. :
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Egyptian goddess of motherhood. :
APET 14
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Hundred square meters. :
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What the Treasury does to bonds. :
ISSUES 20
Beet-like vegetables. :
CHARDS 27
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Strait between Nova Scotia and New Breton. :
CANSO 44
Dealer named for open stall, his original shop. :
STATIONER 45
Proof-reader's marks. :
STETS 48
Noise of distant musketry. :
SPATTER 49
Prime necessity for war production. :
SPEED 51
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"What, never? Hardly ___." :
EVER 53
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Reluctant allies of Germany. :
FINNS 56
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Mouse-like rodent. :
VOLE 60
Poetical ideal of wifely devotion. :
ENID 62
Brazilian monetary unit. :
REI 63
What Damon was to Pythias (Fr.). :
AMI 65
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Fruit of the mountain ash. :
ROWAN 84
Seaport of Honshu Island. :
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Sterilizing apparatus. :
OVEN 86
Showing more normal judgment. :
SANER 88
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Prepare by working. :
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Pertaining to the armpit. :
ALAR 95
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Iron prow of a gondola. :
FERRO 101
Musical stage production. :
REVUE 103
Port on Zuider Zee, occupied by Nazis. :
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Birthplace of Nathaniel Hawthorne. :
SALEM 114
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English poet (1754–1832). :
CRABBE 116
Illinois town, scene of strike massacre. :
HERRIN 117
Nazi submarine base in Belgium. :
OSTEND 118
Rank in the navy: Abbr. :
ENS 120
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Suggested Nazi name. :
GERMS 127
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Aaron Burr's daughter. :
THEO 133
Open country in Transvaal. :
VELD 134
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Town in Netherlands. :
EDE 139
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Spirit worshiped in Thailand. :
NAT
Answer summary: 9 unique to this puzzle , 159 debuted here and reused later .
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There are 0 circles, 0 rebus squares and 2 cheater squares.
The grid has normal (rotational) crossword symmetry.
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It has 159 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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