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Harold T. Bers
About the Globe
New York Times, Sunday, January 26, 1947
Author:
Harold T. Bers
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 168, Blocks: 83, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 657 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 146, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 59, Grid flow: 45.6
1 P | 2 A | 3 R | 4 I | 5 S | | 6 P | 7 R | 8 A | 9 H | 10 A | | 11 H | 12 I | 13 N | 14 D | 15 U | | 16 N | 17 E | 18 H | 19 R | 20 U |
21 U | D | I | N | E | | 22 Y | U | G | O | S | 23 L | A | V | I | A | N | | 24 A | L | I | E | N |
25 R | U | P | E | E | | 26 T | R | O | G | L | O | D | Y | T | I | C | | 27 P | A | R | S | I |
28 C | L | A | R | K | | 29 H | A | G | | 30 E | N | D | | 31 A | L | L | | 32 S | T | E | E | R |
33 H | A | R | T | | 34 K | O | L | | 35 B | E | G | O | 36 T | | 37 S | A | 38 W | | 39 A | L | A | E |
40 A | T | I | | 41 A | N | N | | 42 R | E | P | I | N | E | 43 D | | 44 S | H | 45 E | | 46 I | S | M |
47 S | O | A | 48 P | D | I | S | 49 H | E | S | | | | 50 T | I | 51 P | P | E | C | 52 A | N | O | E |
53 E | R | N | E | S | T | | 54 O | P | T | 55 S | | 56 A | R | N | O | | 57 A | L | I | G | N | S |
| | | 58 R | O | S | | 59 P | A | R | I | 60 S | I | A | N | S | | 61 T | A | R | | | |
62 A | 63 B | 64 H | O | R | | 65 A | S | S | I | Z | E | S | | 66 E | S | 67 S | | 68 T | E | 69 L | 70 L | 71 S |
72 B | E | A | N | B | 73 A | G | | | 74 D | E | W | | 75 P | R | E | C | 76 E | S | S | I | O | N |
77 A | V | I | | | 78 V | A | 79 R | 80 I | E | S | | 81 V | A | S | S | A | R | | | 82 P | W | A |
83 S | A | L | 84 T | 85 P | E | T | E | R | S | | 86 F | E | N | | | 87 R | E | 88 P | 89 A | P | E | R |
90 E | N | S | U | E | | 91 E | D | E | | 92 M | A | R | G | 93 A | 94 T | E | | 95 A | B | I | D | E |
| | | 96 B | A | 97 W | | 98 O | L | 99 E | A | N | D | E | R | S | | 100 S | P | Y | | | |
101 A | 102 L | 103 P | A | C | A | | 104 W | A | L | T | | 105 I | R | M | A | | 106 W | A | S | 107 H | 108 E | 109 R |
110 T | A | L | L | E | Y | 111 R | A | N | D | | | | 112 M | E | R | 113 S | E | Y | S | I | D | E |
114 A | C | E | | 115 S | N | A | | 116 D | E | 117 M | 118 I | 119 B | A | R | | 120 T | E | A | | 121 R | U | T |
122 L | O | A | 123 M | | 124 E | M | 125 E | | 126 R | O | M | A | N | | 127 A | R | T | | 128 L | O | C | I |
129 A | N | S | E | 130 R | | 131 A | R | 132 E | | 133 H | I | T | | 134 A | M | A | | 135 L | E | H | A | R |
136 N | I | A | T | A | | 137 D | A | R | 138 D | A | N | E | 139 L | L | E | S | | 140 A | G | I | T | E |
141 T | A | N | E | Y | | 142 A | S | S | E | V | E | R | A | T | E | S | | 143 D | E | T | E | R |
144 A | N | T | R | A | | 145 N | E | E | L | E | | 146 S | P | O | R | E | | 147 D | R | O | S | S |
© 1947, The New York TimesNo. 259
Across
1
Leon Blum's capital. :
PARIS6
11
Major sect of India. :
HINDU16
India's interim top man. :
NEHRU21
Trieste's northwest neighbor. :
UDINE22
24
___ Property Custodian. :
ALIEN25
India's monetary unit. :
RUPEE26
27
Sect represented in India's Interim Government. :
PARSI28
U. S. Attorney General. :
CLARK29
30
Land's ___, Cornwall. :
END31
32
33
Admiral who became Senator. :
HART34
Primitive native of Bengal. :
KOL35
37
39
40
41
Massachusetts cape. :
ANN42
44
46
47
50
53
George, Vyacheslav and ___. :
ERNEST54
56
57
58
59
61
"Refrain, audacious ___."—W. S. Gilbert. :
TAR62
65
66
68
72
74
75
Regular change in direction of an axis. :
PRECESSION77
78
81
Where GI's are studying. :
VASSAR82
83
86
87
90
91
British West African village. :
EDE92
Londoner's week-end resort. :
MARGATE95
96
98
100
101
104
105
106
It keeps faucets from dripping. :
WASHER110
112
114
115
116
One of a pair of loaded dice: Obs. :
DEMIBAR120
Afternoon timeout for Englishmen. :
TEA121
122
124
126
Caesar's nationality. :
ROMAN127
128
129
Small star in The Fox and the Goose. :
ANSER131
133
134
135
Composer of Gipsy Love. :
LEHAR136
So. American dwarf cattle. :
NIATA137
140
141
U. S. Chief Justice, 1836–64. :
TANEY142
143
144
145
146
Reproduction cell of plants. :
SPORE147
Down
1
How Alaska was acquired from Russia. :
PURCHASE2
3
Living on the banks of a river. :
RIPARIAN4
5
6
Descendants of serpent slain by Apollo. :
PYTHONS7
The "R" of R. F. D. :
RURAL8
9
10
11
Dorothy Vernon of ___ Hall. :
HADDON12
Eastern college league. :
IVY13
14
Irish Parliaments. :
DAILS15
16
17
Village on the Tigris. :
ELATA18
19
20
23
34
35
36
Four: Comb. form. :
TETRA38
World's most important crop. :
WHEAT41
Condense and hold by surface adhesion. :
ADSORB42
43
45
48
49
51
Wild West law and order groups. :
POSSES52
55
Glazes the surface. :
SIZES56
60
62
63
England's fiery Health Minister. :
BEVAN64
65
Reddish red-yellow. :
AGATE67
Cause heartquake. :
SCARE69
Italian painter (1406–69). :
LIPPI70
71
73
75
76
79
80
Recent applicant to U. N. :
IRELAND81
Composer of Falstaff. :
VERDI84
Shylock's friend. :
TUBAL85
Between-war intervals. :
PEACES86
88
Its juice is drunk on Broadway. :
PAPAYA89
92
Where wrestlers tangle. :
MAT93
Weapon furnisher. :
ARMER94
Nicholas II was the last. :
TSAR97
99
Ruth ___, aviatrix. :
ELDER100
What the British call dessert. :
SWEET101
102
103
107
108
What propaganda presumably does. :
EDUCATES109
111
113
117
118
119
123
125
127
128
St. ___, famous English horse race. :
LEGER130
East India broadbill. :
RAYA132
134
Palo ___, Hoover's home. :
ALTO135
Star of Two Years Before the Mast. :
LADD138
Where Dover is: Abbr. :
DEL139
Answer summary:
15 unique to this puzzle, 44 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 15 words unique to this puzzle:
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Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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