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Elizabeth Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson

GLOBAL GLEANINGS

New York Times, Sunday, July 15, 1945

8-Across : Province, its capital Nanchang.

Author:
Elizabeth Patterson
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 168, Blocks: 75, Avg Word Len: 5.40, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 646 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 162, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 71
Elizabeth Patterson has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

In original 96-Down clue, period was outside parentheses; moved it inside.

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© 1945, The New York TimesNo. 179
Across
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Taiwan. : FORMOSA
8
Province, its capital Nanchang. : KIANGSI
15
Kuching is its capital. : SARAWAK
22
Republic on the equator. : ECUADOR
23
A little ring. : ANNULET
24
Port of West Sicily. : TRAPANI
25
Change the form. : RESHAPE
26
Expressive motion. : GESTURE
27
Book supplements. : ADDENDA
28
Entirely destroy. : RASE
29
Upon. : ONTO
31
___ spumante. : ASTI
32
Lover's patron. : EROS
33
Voronezh's river. : DON
34
Black cuckoo. : ANI
35
Celebrate. : PRAISE
37
County in Pennsylvania. : SNYDER
39
Ice mass. : BERG
40
Westerner's rope. : RIATA
42
Region of the Tuaregs. : SAHARA
45
Heroes of Terhune's stories. : DOGS
46
Young salmon. : PARRS
47
Geometrical point of curve. : ACNODE
49
New York's famous boulevard. : RIVERSIDE
51
Duke of Windsor's former capital. : NASSAU
52
Comic-strip character. : MUTT
54
Of wearers of the caduceus. : MEDICAL
55
First name of "Good Gray Poet." : WALT
56
Appropriate. : APT
59
Former Asiatic kingdom: Var. : COREA
61
Extreme pallor. : ASH
62
Puzzling. : ENIGMATIC
67
Where Guam is. : MARIANAS
69
Beings: Latin. : ENTIA
71
Seaweed. : ALGA
72
Jehoshaphat's father. : ASA
73
Rosy suffusion. : BLUSH
74
Man's nickname. : STAN
76
Seaport of Flanders. : OSTENDE
78
Cape ___ Nez. : GRIS
79
Hindu princess. : RANI
80
Brother of John and Ethel. : LIONEL
82
Important cargo ship. : TANKER
83
Take on cargo. : LADE
84
Possesses. : OWNS
85
Friendships. : AMITIES
87
Beast's hideaway. : LAIR
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Walled town S. of Lake Chad. : DIKOA
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"Wha ___ base as be a slave?"—Burns. : SAE
90
Russian battle city. : OREL
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City N. E. of Calcutta. : DACCA
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Island group, Bay of Bengal. : NICOBARS
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Inspirited. : ENLIVENED
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Kentucky blue grass. : POA
99
Jan. 21 saint. : AGNES
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Born. : NEE
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"Alice in Wonderland" creature. : DODO
102
Threading, as a rope. : REEVING
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Main point. : GIST
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Panay seaport. : ILOILO
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Impeders. : HINDERERS
112
Ridged, as shells. : LIRATE
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The Egyptian sycamore. : DAROO
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Island off Jutland. : FANO
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"Vision of Sir Launfal" author. : LOWELL
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Painter's frame. : EASEL
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Voice. : EMIT
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Summer home of Mark Twain. : ELMIRA
124
Abalone. : SEAEAR
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General Eaker. : IRA
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President's nickname. : ABE
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Where Hue is: Var. : ANAM
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Lake formed by Boulder Dam. : MEAD
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Fairy tale. : MYTH
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Italian port N.W. of Brindisi. : BARI
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Aegean island near Dardanelles. : TENEDOS
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Ethereal. : AIRLIKE
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Native of Sitsang. : TIBETAN
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Birthplace of James Hogg. : ETTRICK
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U. S. War Secretary. : STIMSON
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Mother of King Arthur. : IGRAINE
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Sword cases. : SHEATHS
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Range of vision. : EYESHOT
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Opportunities. : CHANCES
Down
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City S. of Venice. : FERRARA
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Of the sea. : OCEANIC
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Slavic tongue. : RUSSIAN
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Chief island of Seychelles, Indian Ocean. : MAHE
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Harem room. : ODA
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Profound sleep. : SOPOR
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Hippodromes. : ARENAS
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Bombed Kyushu city. : KAGOSHIMA
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Warlike Saxon king. : INE
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Handle. : ANSA
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McAuliffe's reply at Bastogne. : NUTS
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Satiates. : GLUTS
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Asiatic region, including Sinkiang. : SERINDIA
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Citizen of: Suffix. : ITE
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Fixed looks. : STARES
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Enthusiasm. : ARDOR
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Units of light energy. : RADS
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Tarzan's foster mother. : APE
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Deviates. : WANDERS
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Republic between France and Spain. : ANDORRA
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Province, East China. : KIANGSU
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Headdress: Poet. : TIAR
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New Jersey's Governor. : EDGE
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Irvin Cobb's Kentucky home. : PADUCAH
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Roof edge. : EAVE
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Western warble. : YODLE
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Queen of spades in solo. : BASTA
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Tributary of Ob. : TOM
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Fortified work. : REDAN
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Best: Comb. form. : ARISTO
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Capital of Majorca. : PALMA
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Thames river town. : ETON
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Easily-split variety of rock. : SCHIST
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Shrew. : NAGGER
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Lake near Perugia. : TRASIMENO
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Uncultivated plant. : WILDERING
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Channel across Sandy Hook. : AMBROSE
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Island, W. of Negros. : PALAWAN
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Wooden peg: Var. : TRUNNEL
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Six-pointed heraldic star. : ESTOILE
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China's "Southern Capital." : NANKING
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Island invaded by Australians. : TARAKAN
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Famous Bishop of Seville. : ISIDORE
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Cheese-ripening enzyme. : CASEASE
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Wife of Osiris. : ISIS
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Vergil's epic: Var. : ENEID
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Novel by Chateaubriand, 1801. : ATALA
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Formicid. : ANT
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Last Spanish Queen. : ENA
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Flippant. : GLIB
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Texas border city. : LAREDO
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Sprung. : LEAPED
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Mop for sweeping ovens. : SCOVEL
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Papers containing detailed information. : DOSSIER
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Convex molding. : OVOLO
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Famous Nile city. : CAIRO
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Wainscot. : CEIL
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Novel by Dostoevski. (With The.) : IDIOT
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Albanian river, to Adriatic. : DRINI
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The Yalta ___. : AGREEMENT
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Outrageous offense. : ENORMITY
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Information. : NEWS
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Singing syllable. : TRA
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Thinks. : IDEATES
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London area, famed in song. : LAMBETH
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Region claimed by Peru and Ecuador. : ORIENTE
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City near Dortmund. : HAMM
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Exterminate. : SLAY
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Not Occidental. : ASIATIC
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Geologic formation. : TERRANE
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Liquid parts of fat. : ELAINES
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Liquor vessels. : FLASKS
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Of a Baltic tongue. : LETTIC
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Biblical patriarch. : ENOCH
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High perch. : AERIE
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Aloft: Obs. : AHIGH
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Entrance. : ADIT
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Charity. : ALMS
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Food serving. : DISH
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Trifle. : BEAN
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"The Tragic ___." : ERA
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Peer Gynt's mother. : ASE
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Chinese statesman, Wellington ___. : KOO
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Italian town, S. of Turin. : BRA

Answer summary:
12 unique to this puzzle, 59 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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