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Analysis
There are 0 circles, 0 rebus squares and 0 cheater squares.
The grid
Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 2 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 3 additional words that debuted in this puzzle and were later reused (total number of puzzles in brackets):
Duplicate clues: Xmas present
These words have only appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:
These 32 answer words are not legal Scrabble™ entries, which sometimes means they are interesting:
The green highlighted squares show which daily puzzle average is closest to this puzzle for each statistical category.
Note: average values here are based on Modern Era stats. Pre-Shortz puzzles didn't vary consistently by day of week.
Distribution of answer words by length
Letter distribution
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Thumbnails
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- Standard view shows the grid pattern most clearly
- Open Squares (those which don't touch any block, even diagonally) are blue
- Vowel distribution
- Scrabble score uses the same color key as above
- Freshness view shows unique answers in red (see colorized grid below)
With answers
Modern Era puzzles that may be similar to this one
Crosswords that share the most words with this one (excluding Sundays):
Unusual or long words that appear elsewhere:
Identical grids
Other puzzles with the same block pattern as this one:
Topologically similar grids
Other crosswords with exactly 36 blocks, 80 words, 73 open squares, and an average word length of 4.72:
Colorized grid (based on pre-Shortz, Modern Era and Variety word frequencies)
In this view, unusual answers are colored depending on how often they have appeared in other puzzles.
Unique answers are in red, red overwrites orange which overwrites yellow, etc.
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Freshness
How common is each answer word?
This chart shows the number of puzzles each word has appeared in across all NYT puzzles, old and modern.