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Elizabeth Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson

WORLD-WIDE WORDS

New York Times, Sunday, November 4, 1945

15-Down : Island group W of New Guinea.

Author:
Elizabeth Patterson
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 172, Blocks: 81, Avg Word Len: 5.21, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 649 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 128, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 18, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 58
Elizabeth Patterson has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1945, The New York TimesNo. 195
Across
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Defeated capital. : TOKYO
6
Keenness. : BITE
10
"Ivory, and ___ and peacocks." : APES
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U. S. fleet anchorage, near Tokyo Bay. : SAGAMI
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Sister of Moses. : MIRIAM
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Our newest aircraft carrier. : ROOSEVELT
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Son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. : IRETON
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Surround by water: Var. : INISLE
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Continent. : AUSTRALIA
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Patrice ___, young soprano. : MUNSEL
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Deprive of birthright. : DISHERIT
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Elevate. : HOIST
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Little: Dial. : LIL
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Shushan of the Bible. : SUSA
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Moldavian capital. : IASI
34
Comedy piece. : SKIT
36
Natal: Abbr. : NAT
37
Hebrew March-April. : NISAN
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1793 invention. : GIN
40
Zola's classic. : NANA
42
Excuse for nonappearance at court. : ESSOIN
44
Alfred ___, actor-dancer. : LUNT
45
Song of Troy. : ILIAD
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Town E of Coblenz. : EMS
49
Dalai ___. : LAMA
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His hobby is biology. : HIROHITO
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Alpine dwellers. : HELVETIANS
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Overgratify. : SATE
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Locale of International Zone. : MOROCCO
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The Lion of Janina. : ALI
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City between Tallinn and Leningrad. : NARVA
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Sweetheart of Harlequin. : COLUMBINE
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Prime Minister, 1922-23. : LAW
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Counter-tenor. : ALTO
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Brown kiwi. : ROA
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Blue-red color. : PLUM
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One of Punjab's "Five Rivers." : BEAS
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American physicist (1847-1922). : BELL
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Baltic isle, near Kiel. : FEHMARN
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Imperial. : CAESAREAN
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Eyelashes: Poet. : EAVES
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Like hard fat. : SUETY
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Town NE of Aurora, Ill. : EOLA
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Listen. : HARK
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Removed center of. : CORED
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Semblance. : IMAGE
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Town NE of Hamburg, near Lubeck. : SCHONBERG
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Cornelia Otis Skinner specialty. : MONOLOG
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Rockfish. : RENA
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Virginia ___. : DARE
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Knowledge. : LORE
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Merry month: Fr. : MAI
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Dwarf: Comb. form. : NANO
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Silkworm. : ERI
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Honshu city, SW of Sendai. : FUKUSHIMA
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Large Nile city, upper Egypt. : GIRGA
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Cyclades isle. : NIO
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Somewhat hard of hearing. : DEAFISH
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City, Allen County, Kan. : IOLA
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German watering place. : BADENBADEN
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Resulting from luck. : ALEATORY
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Native of west Asia. : KURD
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Edible fish. : EEL
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Artist-inventor (1791-1872). : MORSE
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Waterfall: Scot. : LINN
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Grow at random. : RAMBLE
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Settlings. : LEES
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St. Agnes' ___. : EVE
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Mere trifles. : DOITS
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Roman bronze. : AES
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Stiff hair. : SETA
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Towards: Arch. : UNTO
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Indo-China's neighbor. : SIAM
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East Indian sheep. : SNA
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Oriental nurses. : AMAHS
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Author of "In School Days." : WHITTIER
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Near the sun. : HELIAC
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At no time hereafter. : NEVERMORE
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Designating a meatless diet. : MAIGRE
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Ancient Urfa. : EDESSA
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Constitution. : IRONSIDES
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Part of tooth structure. : ENAMEL
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Tapestry for chairback. : DOSSER
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Coin of China. : CENT
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Tense. : RAPT
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Frogs. : RANAS
Down
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One of the Marianas. : TINIAN
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Bihar and ___ Prov., India. : ORISSA
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Bessarabian capital. : KISHINEV
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1701 seat of learning. : YALE
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Hebrew measures. : OMERS
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Capital of Slovakia, on Danube. : BRATISLAVA
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Acknowledgment of debt. : IOU
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Nonsense: Slang. : TOSH
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Where Lake Peipus is. : ESTONIA
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Cease: Naut. : AVAST
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Beat incessantly. : PELT
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Samuel's tutor. : ELI
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City NW of Rostov. : STALINO
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Summer capital of India. : SIMLA
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Island group W of New Guinea. : ARU
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Roman clan. : GENS
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___ Airfield, near Yokohama. : ATSUGI
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Roman Province in Augustus' reign. : MOESIA
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___ Sea, site of Hiroshima. : INLAND
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Southern France. : MIDI
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Of a large lake. : ERIAN
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Dwight. : IKE
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Inhabitant of Panama area. : ISTHMIAN
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Lake, source of Blue Nile. : TSANA
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Where war criminals are jailed. : NUREMBERG
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Sodium nitrate. : NITRE
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___ corner. : AMEN
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Mystic Hindu syllables. : OMS
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Lithuanian dimes. : LITU
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Card game. : LOO
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Twinkling. : STARRY
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Largest Molucca island. : HALMAHERA
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Electrified particles. : IONS
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Deep-sea fishing grounds off Shetlands. : HAAF
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Large island near Greenland. : ELLESMERE
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Where Kaunas is. : LITHUANIA
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___ Mountain, Michigan. : IRON
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Under: Fr. : SOUS
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Arthur's successor. : CLEVELAND
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Nouvelle ___, Fr. Pacific island. : CALEDONIE
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Birds of prey. : OWLS
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In spotless manner. : CLEANLILY
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Nib. : BEAK
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Alpha and ___. : OMEGA
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___ Alto, Calif. : PALO
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Noble. : BARON
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Consumed. : ATE
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Adherings. : COHESIONS
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Underdone. : RARE
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Long period. : EON
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Neutral shade. : ECRU
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___ of vantage. : COIGNE
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Angered. : IRED
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Russian island, N. Pacific. : SAKHALIN
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Town near mouth of Congo. : BOMA
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Sea: Latin. : MARE
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Queer character: Slang. : GOON
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Signora Checchi. : DUSE
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Section of U. S. : MIDDLEWEST
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Set in order. : FILED
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Cape ___. : HORN
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Clothes. : GARBS
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"A keeper of sheep." : ABEL
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Fez: Arabic. : FAS
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Loafer: Slang. : BUM
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Isles defending Alaska. : ALEUTIAN
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April 15, 1912. : TITANIC
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Where Srinagar is. : KASHMIR
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City, NE Iran. : MESHED
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N. Spanish city, near Gijon. : OVIEDO
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Pieces of eight. : REALES
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Builds. : REARS
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Anglo-Saxon letter. : ETH
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Inscrutable one. : ENIGMA
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Cubic meters. : STERES
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___ Levant. : OSCAR
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Catkin. : AMENT
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To love: Fr. : AIMER
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City N. of Kharkov. : OREL
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Senorita. : MISS
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Swan of ___. : AVON
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Beverage. : SODA
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500-m. river, Kenya colony. : TANA
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Ibsen character. : ASE
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Aforetime. : ERE
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Heavy fabric. : REP

Answer summary:
13 unique to this puzzle, 45 debuted here and reused later, 12 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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