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GLOBAL REPORTER
New York Times, Sunday, June 24, 1945
100-Down : Wish: Scot.
Author:
A. H. Cook
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 170 , Blocks: 76 , Avg Word Len: 5.33 , Missing: { Q X Z } , Scrabble score: 671 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 162 , Cheaters: 2 , FITB: 10 , XRef: 0 , Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 70
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© 1945, The New York Times No. 176
Across
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Navy and Marine PBM patrol bomber. :
MARINER 23
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Walled city of Po valley, taken by Allies Dec. 5, 1944. :
RAVENNA 25
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It has over 6,000,000 members. :
AFL 29
Ancient State of China. :
TSAO 31
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Ambassador from Argentina to U. S., 1914. :
NAON 36
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Leg between knee and ankle. :
CRUS 44
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Amphibious landing in October, 1944. :
LEYTE 47
Assistant Secretary of State. :
DUNN 48
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Battleground for 5 2/3 years. :
EUROPE 52
Unit for reckoning ship capacity. :
TON 53
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Ruined city near Mandalay, former capital of Burma. :
AVA 58
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Strait between Italy and Sicily. :
MESSINA 71
___-Yama, largest active volcano in Japan. :
ASAMA 72
City in Michigan. :
FLINT 73
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City on the Rhine. :
BASEL 77
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Make fit by discipline. :
TRAIN 80
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Bent portion of axle. :
CRANK 82
Dutch News Agency. :
ANETA 83
Sicilian mountain. :
AETNA 84
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Perpetrator of horrors in Europe. :
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Book of the Bible. :
TITUS 94
___ Eireann, Irish Chamber of Deputies. :
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Encloses within walls. :
MURES 113
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Sleeveless jacket. :
VEST 116
"Hermit Kingdom." :
KOREA 117
Delegate to San Francisco Conference. :
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In the beginning: Abbr. :
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Secy. of Treasury, 1932-33. :
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Free hold right of land. :
ODAL 13
Attached by its base, as a leaf. :
SESSILE 14
Museum of Modern ___. :
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Czar of Russia, 1530-1584. :
IVAN 18
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Senator Capehart's State. :
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River of Normandy. :
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Army Mountain Troop Ranch, Pando, Col. :
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One of the lesser Sunda Islands. :
TIMOR 55
Senator Bankhead's State. :
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Digger of the Suez Canal. :
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Robert ___ Hutchins, U. of C. President. :
MAYNARD 66
High Turkish official. :
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Senator Pepper's State: Abbr. :
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British historian, Ambassador to U. S., 1907-13. :
BRYCE 78
Two-toed sloths of Brazil. :
UNAUS 79
The Nine ___, by Dorothy Sayers. :
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European battleground from Sept. 3, 1943. :
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Impudent talk: Slang. :
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Outlet for Ukraine harvests. :
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St. ___, Channel seaport, N. of Rennes. :
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Yalta palace where Big Three met. :
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River, joins Rhine at Koblenz. :
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Islands S. E. of Honshu. :
BONINS 114
Crater lake near Naples. :
AVERNO 116
Island group N. E. of Hokkaido. :
KURIL 117
Mountain troops transport. :
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Capital of Latvia. :
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Kin of the apteryx. :
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Answer summary: 7 unique to this puzzle , 63 debuted here and reused later , 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles .
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Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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