This web browser is not supported. Use Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox for best results.
Bert Rosenfield
Collaborations
New York Times, Sunday, January 18, 1987
Author:
Bert Rosenfield
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 170, Blocks: 90, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 657 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 126, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 16, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 19, Grid flow: 57.7
1 G | 2 O | 3 S | 4 P | 5 E | 6 L | 7 S | | 8 V | 9 E | 10 R | 11 I | 12 S | 13 T | | 14 D | 15 S | 16 M | | 17 A | 18 B | 19 R | 20 I |
21 U | K | U | L | E | L | E | | 22 E | N | A | B | L | E | | 23 U | T | A | | 24 T | E | A | M |
25 S | E | P | A | R | A | T | 26 E | G | A | B | L | E | S | | 27 B | A | L | | 28 R | C | M | P |
| | | 29 N | O | M | O | R | E | | 30 S | E | U | S | 31 S | | 32 B | A | 33 T | I | K | | |
34 M | 35 A | 36 M | E | | 37 A | N | I | T | 38 A | | | 39 T | E | W | | 40 A | R | R | A | Y | 41 E | 42 R |
43 S | L | O | T | 44 H | S | | 45 N | A | N | 46 A | 47 C | H | R | I | 48 S | T | I | E | | 49 G | E | E |
50 G | E | N | O | A | | | | 51 L | I | N | O | | 52 A | V | E | | 53 A | S | 54 T | A | R | E |
| | 55 A | F | L | 56 A | 57 T | 58 S | | 59 M | A | I | 60 A | | 61 E | R | 62 A | | 63 S | H | R | I | S |
64 B | 65 E | S | T | | 66 T | H | E | 67 D | A | I | N | M | 68 U | T | I | N | 69 Y | | 70 E | P | E | E |
71 R | A | T | H | | 72 M | O | R | E | L | S | | 73 A | R | S | O | N | I | 74 S | T | | | |
75 I | S | E | E | | 76 O | T | R | E | | | 77 P | S | I | | | | 78 P | O | U | 79 S | 80 T | 81 O |
82 B | E | R | G | 83 S | | 84 H | A | R | 85 R | 86 O | W | S | M | 87 I | 88 T | 89 H | | 90 O | R | T | O | N |
91 E | L | Y | R | I | 92 A | | | | 93 A | U | S | | | 94 G | E | U | 95 M | | 96 N | A | S | I |
| | | 97 A | L | M | 98 O | 99 N | 100 E | R | S | | 101 A | 102 M | O | E | B | A | | 103 O | T | T | O |
104 G | 105 I | 106 P | P | | 107 T | H | E | L | A | T | 108 E | G | A | T | S | B | Y | | 109 F | E | I | N |
110 A | M | E | E | 111 R | | 112 O | W | E | | 113 S | L | O | G | | 114 T | A | R | 115 O | T | S | | |
116 G | E | T | S | E | 117 T | | 118 E | G | 119 G | | 120 A | N | G | 121 E | | | | 122 P | H | I | 123 L | 124 O |
125 E | T | E | | 126 A | S | 127 I | L | A | Y | 128 F | L | Y | I | N | 129 G | | 130 R | E | E | D | E | D |
131 S | A | R | 132 A | C | E | N | | 133 N | R | A | | | 134 E | D | I | 135 L | E | | 136 S | E | A | S |
| | 137 C | I | T | T | A | | 138 T | A | T | 139 R | 140 A | | 141 E | L | I | J | 142 A | H | | | |
143 O | 144 C | H | S | | 145 S | R | 146 O | | 147 T | H | E | R | 148 O | A | D | T | O | F | R | 149 O | 150 M | 151 E |
152 D | I | A | L | | 153 E | U | X | | 154 E | E | L | I | E | R | | 155 H | I | R | E | S | O | N |
156 D | A | N | E | | 157 S | T | Y | | 158 D | R | Y | A | D | S | | 159 S | N | O | W | O | W | L |
© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,585
Across
1
8
Mascagni or Leoncavallo :
VERIST14
17
21
22
23
Southwestern lizard :
UTA24
Cowboys or Indians :
TEAM25
27
Loose, boxy overcoat :
BAL28
Law N of the border :
RCMP29
"To die: to sleep,/___": Hamlet :
NOMORE30
Theodor Geisel a k a Dr. ___ :
SEUSS32
Colorful Indonesian fabric :
BATIK34
Angela Lansbury role :
MAME37
One of the Pointer Sisters :
ANITA39
40
43
Denizens of tropical forests :
SLOTHS45
49
50
Kind of jib or salami :
GENOA51
Floor covering in the U.K. :
LINO52
53
55
59
One of the Pleiades :
MAIA61
Iffy Const. amendment :
ERA63
64
___ bower (spare anchor) :
BEST66
70
Salle d'armes implement :
EPEE71
72
73
75
"___ Your Face Before Me," 1937 song :
ISEE76
Tosspot, in Torino :
OTRE77
___ phenomena (ESP, telepathy, etc.) :
PSI78
82
Gertrude and Patty :
BERGS84
90
"What the Butler Saw" playwright :
ORTON91
City WSW of Cleveland :
ELYRIA93
94
Plant also called avens :
GEUM96
97
101
Creature seen on a slide :
AMOEBA103
Football Hall of Famer Graham :
OTTO104
Ronald Reagan screen role :
GIPP107
109
Sinn ___ (Irish society) :
FEIN110
"Abdul, the Bulbul ___" :
AMEER112
113
114
Cards for a fortuneteller :
TAROTS116
118
120
122
Van Dine's crime-solver Vance :
PHILO125
126
130
131
133
Hugh Johnson's org. :
NRA134
Caesar, at one time :
EDILE136
137
138
___ Mountains of the Carpathians :
TATRA141
He fought against Baal worship :
ELIJAH143
Basso in "Der Rosenkavalier" :
OCHS145
Sad letters for latecomers :
SRO147
152
153
They or them, in Thiers :
EUX154
155
156
157
158
159
Down
1
2
Taro liquor, for short :
OKE3
4
5
First name in architecture :
EERO6
7
8
9
Spanish queen: 1906-31 :
ENA10
11
Ending for collect :
IBLE12
Olivier-Caine thriller :
SLEUTH13
14
15
16
17
Roman sitting rooms :
ATRIA18
William Makepeace Irving character :
BECKYGARP19
20
26
31
33
34
Flavor-enhancing letters :
MSG35
36
38
41
42
Robinson's keystone partner :
REESE44
Boar's Head Tavern habitué :
HAL46
47
48
54
56
57
58
60
62
Mickey's Broadway costar :
ANN64
Apply palm grease :
BRIBE65
67
68
69
Lyricist Harburg, to pals :
YIP74
77
79
80
"At Vespers" composer :
TOSTI81
Tear-jerker, of a sort :
ONION83
85
86
87
Gershwin's "___ Plenty o' Nuttin'" :
IGOT88
89
Half a G.I. wolf call :
HUBBA92
95
Opera composer–Donizetti's teacher :
MAYR98
"So that's your game!" :
OHO99
100
101
Ecstasy's antithesis :
AGONY102
Rolling-pin wielder in comics :
MAGGIE104
105
"___ man with seven wives" :
IMETA106
108
Ben Gurion departer :
ELAL111
Block a punch, e.g. :
REACT115
117
119
121
123
124
127
Plodding the treadmill :
INARUT128
"You are old, ___ William" :
FATHER129
130
132
135
Certain prints: Abbr. :
LITHS139
140
"Una voce poco fa" is one :
ARIA142
143
144
146
148
149
150
151
Sign up for three yrs. :
ENL
Answer summary:
15 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 14 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
Analyzing...
Analysis
There are 0 circles, 0 rebus squares and 0 cheater squares.
The grid
Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 15 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 4 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 74 answer words are not legal Scrabble™ entries, which sometimes means they are interesting:
Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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
| Scrabble Score: 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
8 |
10 |
Thumbnails
Various thumbnail views are shown:
- 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:
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 90 blocks, 170 words, 126 open squares, and an average word length of 5.16:
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.
| Unique |
1 other |
2 others |
3 others |
4 others |
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.