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Lester Keene
WITH HINTS FROM THE HEADLINES
New York Times, Sunday, September 3, 1944
82-Down : South Carolina river.
Author:
Lester Keene
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 134 , Blocks: 76 , Avg Word Len: 5.45 , Missing: { Q W X } , Scrabble score: 515 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 130 , Cheaters: 16 , FITB: 7 , XRef: 0 , Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 69
Lester Keene has 35 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1944, The New York Times No. 134
Across
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Algerian soldier of France. :
SPAHI 6
U. S. fighter-bomber. :
HAVOC 11
French Channel port. :
HAVRE 16
He wrote "I have a rendezvous with death." :
SEEGER 17
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City 81 miles north of Paris. :
AMIENS 21
Italian city south of Livorno. :
CECINA 22
Vibrant effect on the tambourine. :
TRAVALE 23
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Lofty volcanic mountain, Teneriffe. :
TEIDE 29
___ Islands, MacArthur's great objective. :
PHILIPPINE 31
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Mrs. Charlie Chaplin. :
OONA 35
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Mythical founder of Troy. :
TROS 39
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14-mile island in Puget Sound. :
CAMANO 44
Where Vargas is President. :
BRAZIL 46
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Total amount of water in soil. :
HOLARD 51
Plum full of wrinkles. :
PRUNE 52
Designating motion toward: Gram. case. :
ALLATIVE 55
Lake southwest of Petsamo. :
ENARE 56
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Town in toe of Italian boot. :
ACRI 59
Strategic Chinese town southwest of Shanghai. :
SUNGKIANGFU 61
70-mile river southwest of Nice. :
VARO 62
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Headland, west side of Red Sea. :
BENAS 66
Italian-speaking portion of Tyrol. :
TRENTINO 67
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Catholic prayer book. :
MISSAL 73
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500-mile river, Southeast Kenya, to Indian Ocean. :
TANA 76
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Collection of sayings. :
ANA 94
Islands between Celebes and Timor. :
BANDA 95
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Gaseous hydrocarbon, source of alcohol. :
ETHANE 98
Where Sherman's march started. :
ATLANTA 100
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Italian port north of Naples. :
GAETA
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Astral spirit of Saturn: Astrol. :
AGIEL 4
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Jap battleship attacked by Capt. Colin Kelly. :
HARUNA 7
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Indian of Tierra del Fuego. :
ONA 10
Capital of Muntenia, Rumania. :
CALARASI 11
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Cremona's first citizen. :
AMATI 13
Green and yellow bird. :
VIREO 14
Capital of Saskatchewan. :
REGINA 15
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French battlefield, 1870, 1918, 1940. :
SEDAN 20
Pillarlike monument. :
STELE 25
Ashes: Comb. form. :
SPODO 27
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American poet, cited for treason. :
POUND 31
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Highest mountain, Julian Alps. :
TERGLOU 35
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Peregrine White and Virginia ___. :
DARE 38
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Agana is its capital. :
GUAM 41
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Lady in "Measure for Measure." :
MARIANA 44
Fort in North Carolina. :
BRAGG 45
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Triangular battle flag. :
PENNON 53
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Fighting French general. :
JUIN 57
Ha'pennies in Bombay. :
ANNAS 59
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Volcano in northeast Sicily: Lat. :
AETNA 63
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Strategic river, Yugoslavia. :
VARDAR 77
National park, Colorado. :
ESTES 78
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City in southwest Assam. :
SYLHET 81
Pertaining to side of the head: Zool. :
GENAL 82
South Carolina river. :
SANTEE 83
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Town in Westphalia, Prussia. :
ALTENA 85
Tinner's small anvil. :
TEEST 87
Victor at Gettysburg. :
MEADE 88
Large lake in south Sweden. :
ASNEN 89
Bethrothal publication. :
BANNS 90
Taken by the Reds, July 13, 1944. :
VILNA 91
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Former name of Tokyo. :
EDO 99
Captured New Guinea stronghold. :
LAE 100
Answer summary:11 unique to this puzzle , 58 debuted here and reused later , 11 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles .
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