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Charles Merz
FOR GEOGRAPHERS AND GENEALOGISTS
New York Times, Sunday, May 3, 1942
19-Down : Firmament.
Author:
Charles Merz
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 186 , Blocks: 90 , Avg Word Len: 4.72 , Missing: { Q X Z } , Scrabble score: 641 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 132 , Cheaters: 0 , FITB: 2 , XRef: 0 , Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 150
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© 1942, The New York Times No. 12
Across
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Junction on the Burma Road. :
LASHIO 22
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Former Spanish kingdom. :
ARAGON 26
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Germinate artificially. :
MALT 28
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Brittle, vitreous sodium carbonate. :
NATRON 32
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"Father of English learning." :
BEDA 41
Express contempt. :
SNEER 43
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Small Danish weight. :
ORT 47
Piece in a frame. :
PANEL 48
Short fibers on the surface. :
NAP 50
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Pin in a gunwale. :
THOLE 70
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International language. :
RO 78
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Projection on a fireplace. :
HOB 93
Pertaining to glands of the mouth. :
SALIVARY 95
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About 1/6 of an inch, in printing. :
EM 99
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A neutral people. :
IRISH 102
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___ longa; vita brevis. :
ARS 105
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Extending no lower than tenor C. :
TENOROON 111
Japanese military governor of Manila. :
ASAKA 113
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Low land, under water. :
FEN 125
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Plants of the mint family. :
SAGES 136
Italian painter: 1575-1642. :
RENI 137
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Having a ground plan long and narrow. :
DROMIC 142
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Mohammed's adopted son. :
ALI 144
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Every seventeenth Oklahoman is one. :
TULSAN 150
Set of receptacles carried by Japanese. :
INRO 152
Climbing annual herbs. :
PEAS 153
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Evergreen trees with an oily fruit. :
OLIVES 159
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Recurring each ninth day. :
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Male figures supporting an entablature. :
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Came upon by chance. :
LIT 36
Low outwork of a fortress. :
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Distal segment of the hind limb of a vertebrate. :
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Title used in India. :
SAHIB 60
Pertaining to a dowry. :
DOTAL 61
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U. S. island south of Hawaii. :
PALMYRA 68
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That which serves to decorate. :
DECOR 77
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Part resembling a wing. :
ALA 81
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Bombed town of New Guinea. :
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Electrified particle. :
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Base for coal-tar dyes. :
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Addition to a letter. :
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Famous protester against oppressive taxes. :
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___ Fighting Ships. :
JANES 138
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Pass a rope through a hole. :
REEVE 141
Division of the spectrum. :
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Bit of information. :
TIP 157
Answer summary: 14 unique to this puzzle , 136 debuted here and reused later , 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles .
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The grid has normal (rotational) crossword symmetry.
It has 14 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 136 additional words that debuted in this puzzle and were later reused (total number of puzzles in brackets):
These words have only appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:
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Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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