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W. E. Jones
Of People and Places
New York Times, Sunday, February 25, 1951
Author:
W. E. Jones
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 63, Avg Word Len: 5.40, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 511 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 148, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 27, Grid flow: 33.1
W. E. Jones has 95 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 V | 2 I | 3 R | 4 A | 5 G | 6 O | | 7 S | 8 C | 9 A | 10 L | 11 A | 12 G | 13 E | | 14 J | 15 A | 16 L | 17 A | 18 P | 19 A |
20 A | T | E | L | E | S | | 21 P | A | L | A | M | O | N | | 22 A | M | I | N | O | L |
23 R | U | M | O | R | S | | 24 A | D | A | M | A | N | T | | 25 M | U | D | D | L | E |
26 G | R | A | S | S | I | 27 E | R | | 28 S | P | R | E | A | 29 D | E | R | | 30 R | A | T |
31 A | B | I | E | | 32 N | O | E | 33 L | | 34 S | I | R | I | U | S | | 35 B | E | N | T |
36 S | I | N | | 37 K | I | N | S | E | 38 Y | | 39 N | I | L | S | | 40 G | U | I | D | E |
| | | 41 V | A | N | S | | 42 N | A | 43 P | | 44 L | E | T | 45 T | E | R | | | |
46 S | 47 A | 48 R | O | N | G | | 49 C | I | T | E | 50 R | | 51 D | E | A | R | N | 52 E | 53 S | 54 S |
55 T | R | A | C | T | | 56 B | E | N | E | G | A | 57 L | | 58 D | E | M | E | R | I | T |
59 E | R | N | E | | 60 R | U | N | G | S | | 61 P | A | 62 T | | 63 N | A | R | I | N | E |
64 N | I | S | | 65 A | E | S | I | R | | | | 66 B | E | 67 V | I | N | | 68 N | U | T |
69 G | E | O | 70 D | E | S | | 71 S | A | 72 Y | | 73 C | O | R | I | A | | 74 G | O | A | T |
75 E | R | M | I | N | E | 76 S | | 77 D | O | 78 L | O | R | E | S | | 79 F | A | S | T | I |
80 L | E | S | S | E | N | E | 81 R | | 82 M | A | L | I | K | | 83 B | A | L | E | E | N |
| | | 84 H | A | T | T | E | 85 R | | 86 M | O | T | | 87 L | E | D | A | | | |
88 E | 89 S | 90 T | E | S | | 91 T | A | O | 92 S | | 93 R | E | 94 V | E | L | S | | 95 P | 96 O | 97 P |
98 T | E | E | S | | 99 M | E | D | I | A | 100 N | | 101 S | I | N | G | | 102 S | L | U | E |
103 H | A | N | | 104 P | E | R | I | S | H | E | 105 D | | 106 P | A | R | 107 O | L | I | S | T |
108 A | T | T | 109 A | I | N | | 110 E | T | A | G | E | 111 R | E | | 112 A | W | A | S | T | E |
113 N | E | E | D | E | D | | 114 S | E | R | E | N | E | R | | 115 D | E | N | S | E | R |
116 E | R | R | O | R | S | | 117 T | R | A | V | E | L | S | | 118 E | N | T | E | R | S |
© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 616
Across
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7
14
Capital of Veracruz State, Mexico. :
JALAPA20
Genus of the spider monkeys. :
ATELES21
Hero of Chaucer's "Knight's Tale." :
PALAMON22
23
24
25
26
28
30
Island group of the Aleutians. :
RAT31
Anne Nichols' hero. :
ABIE32
34
35
36
37
He made a famous report. :
KINSEY39
Man's name: Scandinavian. :
NILS40
Sight-seers' escort. :
GUIDE41
42
Be off one's guard. :
NAP44
What a varsity athlete wins. :
LETTER46
Dorothy Lamour used to wear one. :
SARONG49
51
55
Religious pamphlet. :
TRACT56
58
59
60
Rounds of a ladder. :
RUNGS61
63
64
City in Yugoslavia. :
NIS65
66
British Foreign Secretary. :
BEVIN68
Eccentric person: Slang. :
NUT69
Stone nodules, containing crystals. :
GEODES71
73
Sensitive layers of the skin. :
CORIA74
Symbol of 10th sign of the Zodiac. :
GOAT75
77
John Barrymore's third wife. :
DOLORES79
80
82
Chief Soviet delegate to the U. N. :
MALIK83
84
Character in "Alice." :
HATTER86
87
Mother of Helen of Troy. :
LEDA88
Senator Kefauver. :
ESTES91
Site of New Mexican art colony. :
TAOS93
95
98
99
101
Inform on partners in crime: Slang. :
SING102
103
River in Korean war zone. :
HAN104
106
Conditionally released prisoner. :
PAROLIST108
110
112
113
114
115
116
No hits, no runs, no ___. :
ERRORS117
118
Down
1
2
Pianist and movie actor. :
ITURBI3
4
5
Department, SW France. :
GERS6
7
8
9
10
11
Poison from oil of bitter almonds. :
AMARIN12
Symbol of filial ingratitude. :
GONERIL13
Given inalienably, as an estate. :
ENTAILED14
Creator of Daisy Miller. :
JAMES15
River on N boundary of Manchuria. :
AMUR16
17
Tolstoy's Prince ___. :
ANDREI18
Its flag is two horizontal bars, white and red. :
POLAND19
Abutment of a Roman arch. :
ALETTE27
29
Freed from powdery particles. :
DUSTED33
35
37
His principle was the categorical imperative. :
KANT38
County in W New York. :
YATES40
41
43
Keep the score in cribbage. :
PEG45
46
47
48
49
Alpine pass between France and Italy. :
CENIS50
Signal at a seance. :
RAP52
Disease of the grapevine. :
ERINOSE53
54
56
57
60
62
River into the Caspian. :
TEREK65
67
Yugoslav island in Adriatic. :
VIS70
72
73
TV question-mark. :
COLOR74
76
78
"Take it on the ___." :
LAM79
81
83
85
Act in swaggering manner. :
ROISTER87
88
Hydrocarbon in natural gas. :
ETHANE89
90
Frame for stretching cloth. :
TENTER92
Region of oases and deserts. :
SAHARA94
95
96
97
Cartoonist Arno's real name. :
PETERS99
100
Desert region in Palestine. :
NEGEV102
104
105
107
109
111
Unit of electricity. :
REL
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 25 debuted here and reused later, 15 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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