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Louis Jenkins
What Do You Know?
New York Times, Sunday, August 8, 1948
Author:
Louis Jenkins
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 170, Blocks: 80, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 654 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 149,
Cheaters: 0,
FITB: 8,
XRef: 0,
Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 46,
Grid flow: 46.5
Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
David Steinberg notes:
Original 83-Down clue had no colon after quotation mark; added one.
1 F | 2 R | 3 A | 4 N | 5 C | | 6 C | 7 H | 8 A | 9 M | 10 P | | 11 S | 12 P | 13 R | 14 A | 15 G | | 16 R | 17 U | 18 M | 19 O | 20 R |
21 L | O | G | I | A | | 22 E | E | R | I | E | | 23 C | R | I | M | E | | 24 U | T | I | C | A |
25 A | M | I | S | S | | 26 C | A | N | O | N | | 27 R | I | P | E | N | | 28 T | E | N | E | T |
29 R | A | N | | 30 C | 31 A | I | R | O | | 32 E | 33 L | I | Z | A | B | E | 34 T | H | | 35 T | A | A |
36 E | N | G | 37 R | A | I | L | S | | 38 G | L | E | B | E | | 39 A | P | R | E | 40 M | O | N | T |
| | | 41 E | D | D | Y | | 42 L | I | O | N | E | S | 43 S | | 44 I | O | N | A | | | |
45 C | 46 R | 47 I | M | E | A | | 48 L | U | M | P | S | | 49 O | P | 50 S | | 51 Y | I | P | 52 P | 53 E | 54 D |
55 H | E | R | B | S | | 56 S | U | P | P | E | | 57 S | N | A | I | 58 L | | 59 A | L | A | M | O |
60 O | M | A | R | | 61 B | E | N | E | S | | 62 R | E | G | I | M | E | 63 N | | 64 E | N | D | O |
65 C | A | T | A | 66 R | A | C | T | S | | 67 S | A | L | | 68 N | O | V | E | 69 M | | 70 D | E | K |
71 O | P | E | N | E | R | | 72 S | C | 73 U | T | T | L | 74 E | | 75 N | E | V | A | 76 D | A | N | S |
| | | 77 D | I | R | 78 E | | 79 U | S | E | L | E | S | 80 S | | 81 L | I | N | A | | | |
82 V | 83 I | 84 N | T | N | E | R | 85 S | | 86 A | V | E | R | T | E | 87 D | | 88 L | E | N | 89 O | 90 R | 91 E |
92 A | D | O | | 93 S | T | I | E | 94 S | | 95 E | S | S | | 96 V | A | 97 U | L | T | S | K | I | N |
98 M | I | L | 99 T | | 100 T | E | N | P | 101 I | N | S | | 102 D | I | R | G | E | | 103 E | A | S | T |
104 P | O | L | E | 105 S | | 106 S | O | I | L | S | | 107 G | U | L | C | H | | 108 S | U | P | E | R |
109 S | T | E | P | P | 110 E | | 111 R | E | L | | 112 M | A | N | L | Y | | 113 D | E | S | I | R | E |
| | | 114 E | L | B | 115 A | | 116 D | E | 117 L | A | I | N | E | | 118 C | O | M | E | | | |
119 U | 120 N | 121 L | E | A | R | N | 122 S | | 123 G | A | I | N | E | | 124 B | A | N | I | S | 125 T | 126 E | 127 R |
128 S | A | Y | | 129 S | O | N | A | 130 T | I | N | A | S | | 131 C | A | B | A | N | | 132 A | L | E |
133 A | M | I | 134 S | H | | 135 A | L | I | B | I | | 136 A | 137 D | O | B | E | | 138 A | 139 M | B | L | E |
140 G | E | N | I | E | | 141 L | A | D | L | E | | 142 Y | O | D | E | L | | 143 T | I | L | E | D |
144 E | D | G | E | S | | 145 S | T | E | E | R | | 146 S | P | A | L | L | | 147 E | D | E | N | S |
© 1948, The New York TimesNo. 339
Across
1
6
James Beauchamp Clark (1850–1921). :
CHAMP11
16
21
Sayings of Jesus. :
LOGIA22
23
24
Where Cato committed suicide. :
UTICA25
26
27
28
Personal opinion. :
TENET29
30
Where FDR and Chiang Kai-shek met. :
CAIRO32
She dies for love of Tannhaeuser. :
ELIZABETH35
36
Ornaments with indented edge. :
ENGRAILS38
39
41
Popular singer of operetta. :
EDDY42
44
Most famous of the Hebrides. :
IONA45
Where Sebastopol lies. :
CRIMEA48
Considers collectively. :
LUMPS49
51
55
56
Composer of "Poet and Peasant." :
SUPPE57
59
Where Col. Bowie fell. :
ALAMO60
61
Gottwald's predecessor. :
BENES62
64
Within: Comb. form. :
ENDO65
67
One of the Cape Verde islands. :
SAL68
70
71
72
75
77
79
81
82
86
88
92
93
95
96
Masonry between ribs of a vault: Obs. :
VAULTSKIN98
100
Game with top score of 300. :
TENPINS102
103
104
Natives of Gdynia. :
POLES106
107
108
Actor in a mob scene. :
SUPER109
111
Initials of famous general. :
REL112
113
114
116
118
119
Forgets previous instruction. :
UNLEARNS123
Pedestal supporting a bust. :
GAINE124
128
129
131
Philippine measure. :
CABAN132
Robin Hood's beverage. :
ALE133
135
What everyone has in a whodunit. :
ALIBI136
Style of Southwestern architecture. :
ADOBE138
140
Content of Aladdin's lamp. :
GENIE141
142
143
Roofed with stone. :
TILED144
Draws closer gradually. :
EDGES145
146
Chip with a hammer. :
SPALL147
Members of noted English family. :
EDENS
Down
1
Signal of distress. :
FLARE2
3
4
City in Yugoslavia. :
NIS5
Mountains of the Pacific coast. :
CASCADES6
Heroine of Chaucer's "Second Nun's Tale." :
CECILY7
8
Well-known cartoonist. :
ARNO9
Smaller: Comb. form. :
MIO10
Faithful wife of a famous traveling man. :
PENELOPE11
Augustin Eugène ___, French dramatist. :
SCRIBE12
Highlight of "Die Meistersinger." :
PRIZESONG13
14
Unicellular animal. :
AMEBA15
16
17
18
Governor-General of Canada, 1898–1904, and Viceroy of India, 1905–10. :
MINTO19
Nearly three-quarters of the earth's surface. :
OCEAN20
31
33
34
Where Helen eloped to. :
TROY37
38
Narrow wired trimmings. :
GIMPS40
42
43
Our enemy in 1898. :
SPAIN45
Indian of Panama. :
CHOCO46
Change the boundaries of. :
REMAP47
Usual condition of Clarence Day's father. :
IRATE48
Popular couple of the theatre. :
LUNTS50
Dr. Binet's collaborator on I. Q. tests. :
SIMON52
Mammal of the Himalayans. :
PANDA53
Famous German raider. :
EMDEN54
56
57
Optimistic colonel in "The Gilded Age." :
SELLERS58
Uniform altitude. :
LEVEL61
Noted resident of Wimpole Street. :
BARRETT62
How the piper left Hamelin. :
RATLESS63
Given name of the umbrella man. :
NEVILLE66
67
Hoboken's educational landmark. :
STEVENS69
73
The world's banker. :
USA74
76
78
American Indians. :
ERIES80
82
Dangerous women of early movies. :
VAMPS83
"A tale told by an ___": Macbeth. :
IDIOT84
85
87
He marries Elizabeth Bennett. :
DARCY89
Giraffe-like animal. :
OKAPI90
Part of a flight of steps. :
RISER91
94
97
Exclamation of recoil. :
UGH99
101
102
Creator of Mr. Dooley. :
DUNNE105
107
108
110
112
113
115
117
Poet, novelist, lecturer, flutist. :
LANIER118
Creator of Poictesme. :
CABELL119
120
121
Committing perjury. :
LYING122
Dressed lettuce: German. :
SALAT124
125
126
Lady of the Lake. :
ELLEN127
Musical instruments. :
REEDS130
131
Closing passage in music. :
CODA134
137
Diamond-cutter's cup. :
DOP139
Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 35 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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