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Charles Cross
Names in the News
New York Times, Sunday, February 2, 1947
Author:
Charles Cross
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 176, Blocks: 82, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 669 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 122, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 64, Grid flow: 42.3
1 M | 2 A | 3 L | 4 A | 5 Y | | 6 W | 7 R | 8 O | 9 N | 10 G | | 11 I | 12 V | 13 E | 14 S | | 15 J | 16 I | 17 N | 18 N | 19 A | 20 H |
21 A | B | A | S | E | | 22 A | E | R | I | E | | 23 L | I | S | P | | 24 O | R | I | O | L | E |
25 V | A | N | K | L | 26 E | F | F | E | N | S | | 27 L | A | T | A | | 28 V | I | D | E | L | A |
29 I | F | E | | 30 P | L | E | A | | 31 O | T | 32 I | S | | 33 O | A | 34 R | E | D | | 35 T | U | T |
36 S | T | Y | 37 S | | 38 A | R | S | 39 E | N | I | C | | 40 A | N | T | E | | 41 S | 42 L | I | D | E |
| | | 43 T | 44 E | N | E | T | S | | 45 C | O | 46 G | N | I | Z | E | 47 D | | 48 I | C | E | R |
49 S | 50 A | 51 L | E | M | | 52 D | E | N | 53 T | | 54 N | A | N | A | | 55 D | A | 56 L | E | | | |
57 C | R | I | P | P | 58 S | | 59 N | E | R | 60 O | | 61 L | A | N | 62 E | | 63 L | O | G | 64 I | 65 E | 66 R |
67 A | I | L | | 68 R | O | 69 S | S | | 70 E | P | 71 S | O | M | | 72 R | 73 U | T | L | E | D | G | E |
74 N | A | I | 75 V | E | L | Y | | 76 C | L | A | P | P | | 77 C | A | R | O | L | | 78 E | R | A |
| | 79 E | A | S | E | L | | 80 A | L | L | A | | 81 S | A | T | A | N | | 82 H | O | E | R |
83 C | 84 A | N | T | S | | 85 L | 86 E | G | I | S | L | 87 A | T | I | O | N | | 88 H | A | L | T | S |
89 O | U | T | S | | 90 F | A | R | E | S | | 91 A | L | A | R | | 92 I | 93 D | A | H | O | | |
94 E | D | H | | 95 T | O | B | E | Y | | 96 S | T | E | R | N | | 97 T | A | N | A | G | 98 R | 99 A |
100 D | I | A | 101 B | O | L | I | C | | 102 S | H | O | R | T | | 103 D | E | W | S | | 104 I | A | N |
105 S | O | L | O | N | S | | 106 T | 107 A | T | A | | 108 T | E | 109 T | E | | 110 N | A | 111 J | E | R | A |
| | | 112 A | G | O | 113 G | | 114 N | O | V | 115 A | | 116 D | U | F | 117 F | | 118 R | O | S | E | S |
119 A | 120 B | 121 A | S | | 122 M | I | 123 S | S | P | E | N | 124 T | | 125 P | A | R | 126 O | D | I | | | |
127 L | A | S | T | 128 S | | 129 L | E | E | S | | 130 T | I | 131 S | S | U | E | S | | 132 N | 133 E | 134 W | 135 T |
136 A | C | H | | 137 O | 138 G | L | E | R | | 139 C | A | M | P | | 140 L | E | S | 141 S | | 142 T | H | Y |
143 S | H | I | 144 N | D | Y | | 145 P | I | 146 K | E | | 147 B | O | 148 A | T | M | A | N | 149 S | H | I | P |
150 K | E | E | N | A | N | | 151 E | N | I | D | | 152 A | R | N | E | E | | 153 O | R | A | T | E |
154 A | R | R | E | S | T | | 155 D | E | M | E | | 156 L | E | A | R | N | | 157 W | A | N | E | D |
© 1947, The New York TimesNo. 260
Across
1
Native of Singapore. :
MALAY6
Canadian Ambassador to U. S. :
WRONG11
Senator from New York. :
IVES15
President of India's Moslem League. :
JINNAH21
22
Brood of birds of prey. :
AERIE23
Speak falteringly. :
LISP24
25
Netherlands diplomat, was delegate to Security Council. :
VANKLEFFENS27
Neurotic condition among Malays. :
LATA28
El Presidente de Chile. :
VIDELA29
30
31
American patriot (1725–83). :
OTIS33
35
36
Eyelid afflictions. :
STYS38
40
41
43
45
48
49
Capital of Gov. Snell's State. :
SALEM52
54
Novel by Zola, 1880. :
NANA55
Re-elected Governor of New Hampshire. :
DALE57
President of British Board of Trade. :
CRIPPS59
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. :
NERO61
Governor of Maryland. :
LANE63
67
68
Presidential secretary. :
ROSS70
Site of race course in Surrey. :
EPSOM72
74
76
77
Ex-King at large. :
CAROL78
What the Paleozoic is. :
ERA79
Winston spends leisure at this. :
EASEL80
81
Character in "Paradise Lost." :
SATAN82
83
85
88
89
Losers of Nov. 5 last. :
OUTS90
91
92
Where Dr. Robins is Governor. :
IDAHO94
Anglo-Saxon letter. :
EDH95
Senator from New Hampshire. :
TOBEY96
97
Ancient Greek town famous for figurines. :
TANAGRA100
102
Rep. Dewey ___ of Missouri. :
SHORT103
104
105
106
108
110
Recent Foreign Minister of Mexico. :
NAJERA112
114
116
Governor of Pennsylvania. :
DUFF118
Billy and Eleanor. :
ROSES119
Sleeveless garments of Arabs. :
ABAS122
125
French delegate to Security Council. :
PARODI127
129
130
132
136
137
Nylon appraiser, on windy day. :
OGLER139
Body of adherents. :
CAMP140
142
143
145
Member of U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. :
PIKE147
150
Chief prosecutor of Tojo and cohorts. :
KEENAN151
152
Female wild buffalo of India. :
ARNEE153
154
155
156
157
Down
1
2
3
Re-elected Governor of Arkansas. :
LANEY4
5
6
Sealed with adhesive disk. :
WAFERED7
8
Where Salem is: Abbr. :
ORE9
10
Relating to bodily motion. :
GESTIC11
12
13
14
Chief of Army Air Forces. :
SPAATZ15
16
17
18
Apprehended only by the intellect. :
NOETIC19
20
26
32
34
Senator from Kansas. :
REED37
39
Slave among Anglo-Saxons. :
ESNE40
42
44
46
Lively French dance. :
GALOP47
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer. :
DALTON49
50
51
Chairman of U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. :
LILIENTHAL53
56
58
60
62
Muse of lyric poetry. :
ERATO64
65
66
69
71
Seaport of SW Yugoslavia. :
SPALATO73
Mineral of element No. 92. :
URANITE75
76
77
81
82
83
What Vassar girls have become. :
COEDS84
86
87
88
Official minutes of British Parliament. :
HANSARD90
93
95
96
98
99
101
102
103
107
109
111
113
115
Architectural pier. :
ANTA117
Persons enjoying liberty. :
FREEMEN119
Where Gruening is Governor. :
ALASKA120
Physicist on U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. :
BACHER121
123
124
126
Mountain moved in Gigantomachy. :
OSSA128
131
Resting cell of some plants. :
SPORE133
134
135
138
139
141
144
146
Irish hero of Indian story, 1901. :
KIM148
What Boswell's Johnson is. :
ANA149
Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 58 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Analysis
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Grid has normal rotational symmetry It has 6 words unique to this puzzle:
It has 58 additional words that debuted in this puzzle and were later reused (total number of puzzles in brackets):
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Grid has an unusual size: 23 rows x 23 columns.
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