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Isaac Kert
WITH CLUES FROM THE NEWS
New York Times, Sunday, December 26, 1943
83-Across : Renaissance.
Author:
I. Kert
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 174 , Blocks: 82 , Avg Word Len: 5.14 , Missing: { X } , Scrabble score: 664 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 129 , Cheaters: 2 , FITB: 7 , XRef: 0 , Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 80
Isaac Kert has 30 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
I. Kert is an alias for Isaac Kert.
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© 1943, The New York Times No. 98
Across
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Base no longer tenable by Japs. :
RABAUL 7
Peninsula between Yellow Sea and Sea of Japan. :
KOREA 12
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Port near mouth of Dniester River. :
ODESSA 22
Flower spike of the willow. :
AMENT 23
Scene of Wallenstein's assassination, 1634. :
EGER 24
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Become exhausted. :
DRAIN 31
Miscellaneous collections. :
OLIOS 33
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Middle calk of horseshoe. :
TOE 35
Island west of Sumatra. :
NIAS 37
Moon-god of Babylon. :
SIN 38
Hamburg-Berlin-Cologne. :
RUINS 39
Number in a repeating decimal. :
REPETEND 41
Utilizing sound waves. :
SONIC 43
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Hero of Kipling poem. :
DIN 46
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Ineffective person: Slang. :
DUD 49
Not in the least. :
NEVER 50
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Air Force Commander with Eisenhower. :
TEDDER 65
Science of flight of projectiles. :
GUNNERY 66
___ States, East Burma. :
SHAN 67
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Defender of London and Malta. :
SPITFIRE 75
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Character in "Aladdin." :
GENIE 88
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The slave in "The Good Earth." :
OLAN 93
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Wallace's predecessor. :
GARNER 97
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Vegetable caterpillars. :
AWETOS 100
One of the Carolines. :
YAP 101
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Harassed, in initiations. :
HAZED 107
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Supreme being among Moslems. :
ALLAH 117
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New Zealand evergreen. :
TAWA 123
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City destroyed by fire. :
SODOM 126
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South African plant. :
ALOE 137
Musical composition. :
ETUDE 138
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O.K., aboard a bomber. :
ROGER 142
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Residents of bombed city. :
ROMANS 2
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Native of ancient city. :
BEREAN 4
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Exclamations of disgust. :
UGHS 14
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First outstanding American poet (1752-1832). :
FRENEAU 17
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Trained to a certain pace. :
GAITED 19
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Name of two Greek courtesans. :
LAIS 28
Wine lacking flavor: Obs. :
VAP 32
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Port on the Baltic. :
MEMEL 45
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Enemy of World War I. :
HUN 51
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Turkish commanders. :
AGAS 53
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Occurring every fourth day. :
QUARTAN 59
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Heavenly being: Fr. :
ANGE 64
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Dynamite cartridge exploder for oil wells. :
GODEVIL 68
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Ketch common in the Levant. :
SAIC 74
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___ Coulee, Washington. :
GRAND 81
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___ Nehru, leader of Indian Congress party. :
JAWAHARLAL 90
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President's nickname. :
CAL 94
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Deceased Commander in Chief of Jap Fleet. :
YAMAMOTO 102
Former name of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. :
GALT 104
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City 116 miles south of Hamburg. :
HANOVER 106
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Proposed photometric unit. :
RAD 112
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Immature, as an insect. :
LARVAL 115
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Character in Molière's "Tartuffe." :
DAMIS 118
Box containing weather report. :
EAR 119
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Prerequisite of a white Christmas. :
SNOW 126
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South American Indian. :
ONA
Answer summary:16 unique to this puzzle , 64 debuted here and reused later , 10 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles .
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There are 0 circles, 0 rebus squares and 2 cheater squares.
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Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 16 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 64 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:
These 41 answer words are not legal Scrabble™ entries, which sometimes means they are interesting:
Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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