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Sam Levine
WITH HINTS FROM THE HEADLINES
New York Times, Sunday, October 4, 1942
118-Across : West Indian sugar works.
Author:
Sam Levine
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 164 , Blocks: 77 , Avg Word Len: 5.51 , Missing: { J W Z } , Scrabble score: 644 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 168 , Cheaters: 2 , FITB: 3 , XRef: 1 , Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 121
Sam Levine has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1942, The New York Times No. 34
Across
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Where Commandos fought. :
DIEPPE 7
Temporary military quarter. :
CAMP 11
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South African Bantu. :
KAFIR 20
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Soles of the feet: Latin. :
VOLAE 22
Father of French surgery (1517-1590). :
PARE 23
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Country of political unrest. :
INDIA 26
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Fox, in Great Britain. :
TOD 34
Administer extreme unction to. :
ENELE 36
English students' jackets. :
ETONS 37
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Mother of Helen of Troy. :
LEDA 41
A signer of the Declaration. :
PAINE 42
Thrown into disorder. :
PIED 43
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The fourteenth President. :
PIERCE 47
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German inventor of internal combustion machine. :
DIESEL 52
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Russian stockade. :
ETAPE 68
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Auxiliary military weapon. :
PISTOL 71
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President of Portugal, 1918. :
PAES 80
Third highest mountain peak in U. S. :
RAINIER 82
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Diacritical sign. :
TILDE 84
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Thin wood strips. :
SLATS 88
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"The muskrat ___ the mason's trade."—Whittier. :
PLIED 93
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French historian: 1661-1741. :
ROLLIN 102
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Bitter resinous compound. :
IVAIN 107
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Wall-eyed pike-perch. :
DOREE 109
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Military point of operations. :
BASE 115
Homeric sea nymph: var. :
SIRENE 117
Peninsula captured by Japanese. :
MALAY 118
West Indian sugar works. :
USINE 119
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"From the ___ deep up to the zenith."—Keats. :
NADIR 121
New second lieutenant, or untrained Army mule. :
SHAVETAIL 124
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Fighting land of Rurik. :
RUSSIA 131
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Child's best friend. :
SANTA 136
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American censorship chief. :
PRICE 6
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Handsomely printed book. :
ALDINE 9
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Historic Belgian town. :
SPA 12
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Southwestern Americans. :
TEXANS 15
A duke who died for his country. :
KENT 16
Biblical character. :
ARD 17
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Peculiarity of speech. :
IDIOM 19
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Pertaining to a journey. :
VIATIC 27
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Mother Carey's chicken. :
PETREL 44
Ate according to a regimen. :
DIETED 46
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"O, call back ___, bid time return."—Richard II. :
YESTERDAY 50
Australian kangaroo. :
EURO 51
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Park in Northern Colorado. :
ESTES 67
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Addition of a sound or syllable to the end of a word. :
EPITHESIS 74
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High mountain in Andes, Central Ecuador. :
ALTAR 78
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French fortress city on Meuse. :
SEDAN 81
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Appetite for eating. :
TOOTH 84
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Italian river, 137 miles to Adriatic. :
RENO 86
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Genus of trees, the Sonora iron-wood. :
OLNEYA 97
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Strategic Russian town near Moscow. :
SMOLENSK 101
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Former Ambassador to Russia (1936-38). :
DAVIES 110
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New Zealand tree: var. :
MAPOU 118
Wailing of an owl. :
ULULU 120
Mythical king of India. :
NALA 122
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Strain, as milk: Prov. Eng. :
SIE
Answer summary:12 unique to this puzzle , 109 debuted here and reused later .
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It has 109 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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