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Alvin Ashby
WITH HINTS FROM THE HEADLINES
New York Times, Sunday, July 12, 1942
3-Down : Hirohito.
Author:
Alvin Ashby
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 170 , Blocks: 76 , Avg Word Len: 5.33 , Missing: { J X } , Scrabble score: 661 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 143 , Cheaters: 0 , FITB: 15 , XRef: 0 , Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 119
David Steinberg notes:
100-Across clue was originally "Skin affection."; changed to "Skin affliction."
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© 1942, The New York Times No. 22
Across
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Fleet of military planes. :
ARMADA 7
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"The national spirit again ___."—Freeman. :
AWAKE 16
Sea between Queensland and New Hebrides. :
CORAL 21
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African antelope. :
ORIBI 25
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Pertaining to vessels of war. :
NAVAL 28
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Japanese airplane. :
ZERO 31
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Superlative ending. :
EST 35
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Native cavalryman in India. :
SOWAR 50
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"The ___ horror of abysmal night."—Santayana. :
EMPTY 57
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Italian seaport on Adriatic. :
TRANI 62
Father of French surgery. :
PARE 63
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A miser in the Bible. :
NABAL 67
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Artificial language. :
IDO 69
Shakespearean forest. :
ARDEN 70
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Prefix signifying town, in Cornwall. :
TRE 75
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Light cannon of sixteenth century. :
ROBINET 80
Hybrid between rabbit and hare. :
LEPORIDE 82
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Pertaining to the south side of a cathedral choir. :
DECANI 87
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"___ the good and evil of things."—L'Estrange. :
BALANCE 91
Pertaining to East Indian deer. :
RUSINE 93
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Mountain encircling the earth, in Moslem cosmology. :
QAF 100
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One clinging to another for gain. :
LEECH 104
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A thrust in fencing. :
BUTT 107
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Women of station. :
DAMES 112
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"I am no ___, as Brutus is."—Julius Caesar. :
ORATOR 115
East African hartebeests. :
TORAS 117
Capable of being deleted. :
DELIBLE 119
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Water, etc., raised artificially. :
PUMPAGE 123
Sprinkles a roast with flour. :
DREDGES 127
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Thornlike process. :
SPINE 132
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Harriet Beecher Stowe character. :
EVA 134
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Former German party leader. :
HESS 139
"Earth hath not anything to ___ more fair."—Wordsworth. :
SHOW 140
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"In ___ expectation of a martyrdom."—Sharp. :
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One of Leo Durocher's boys. :
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Nipa palm of Malay countries. :
ATAP 5
Atlantic State: abbr. :
DEL 6
Battleship lost at Pearl Harbor. :
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Protective plating of warships. :
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"Brevity is the soul of ___."—Hamlet. :
WIT 13
Biblical character. :
ADAM 14
Seoul is its capital. :
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"The ___ creaking of a country sign."—Cowper. :
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Catchers of lampreys. :
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"But yet the ___ of it, Iago!"—Othello. :
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Unstrung shell beads, money of the Algonquin tribe. :
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Fortress builder of France. :
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African seaport nearest South America. :
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Genus of poultry tick. :
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Musical instrument. :
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Support for canvas. :
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Egyptian hawk-headed god of day. :
HORUS 105
"Sweet mercy is nobility's true ___."—Titus Andronicus. :
BADGE 106
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Eel-like aquatic vertebrates. :
LAMPERNS 112
"And like a passing thought, she ___."—Burns. :
FLED 114
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"___ with the hiss of rustling wings."—Milton. :
BRUSHED 120
Anything that is fired at. :
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Mark Twain character. :
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"Green of mossy ___."—Keats. :
TREAD 128
Any species of grunt. :
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Horizontal band in heraldry. :
FESSE 136
Feminine nickname. :
TESS 138
"How long ___ ye between two opinions?"—Kings xviii, 21. :
HALT 139
Floating vegetable matter on the White Nile. :
SUDD 141
Threefold: comb. form. :
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Japanese base in New Guinea. :
LAE 146
Answer summary: 7 unique to this puzzle , 112 debuted here and reused later , 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles .
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