This web browser is not supported. Use Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox for best results.
Louis Baron
WITH CLEWS FROM THE NEWS
New York Times, Sunday, April 19, 1942
Author:
Louis Baron
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 176 , Blocks: 81 , Avg Word Len: 5.09 , Missing: { J Q Z } , Scrabble score: 660 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 148 ,
Cheaters: 0 ,
FITB: 14 ,
XRef: 0 ,
Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 156
Grid has duplicate clues .
Louis Baron has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1
P
2
A
3
N
4
A
5
Y
6
B
7
E
8
N
9
E
10
S
11
R
12
E
13
L
14
A
15
X
16
A
17
G
18
A
19
V
20
E
21
O
R
A
G
E
22
A
V
I
S
O
23
I
T
A
L
Y
24
I
N
D
I
A
25
S
A
M
O
A
26
B
A
T
T
L
27
E
S
H
I
P
S
28
R
U
M
O
R
29
I
R
E
30
R
31
A
I
D
S
32
D
A
K
A
R
33
T
34
A
D
35
I
L
E
36
T
A
S
37
S
38
R
E
E
39
S
I
R
E
N
40
S
E
R
R
41
A
T
E
D
42
U
43
S
E
S
44
F
I
E
L
D
45
B
U
R
R
O
S
46
S
47
E
48
D
G
E
S
49
L
O
R
R
Y
50
P
O
I
51
I
M
P
52
A
53
C
54
T
55
C
A
R
A
T
56
F
I
R
E
S
57
C
O
N
C
58
A
V
E
59
M
O
A
60
O
G
E
R
61
B
L
O
T
S
62
C
O
R
N
I
C
E
63
E
E
L
S
64
O
L
A
65
C
L
A
N
S
66
C
O
N
C
E
D
E
67
M
E
R
I
T
68
P
E
D
69
D
L
E
R
S
70
L
I
G
N
I
T
E
71
M
A
R
I
N
E
72
N
O
O
S
E
73
R
U
T
74
E
N
S
75
D
O
R
I
C
76
S
77
M
O
L
T
S
78
P
E
N
A
79
N
C
E
80
R
E
T
R
E
A
81
T
82
S
83
H
A
U
L
S
84
P
L
A
U
D
I
T
85
V
I
C
H
Y
86
N
O
W
87
E
N
G
S
88
B
E
A
D
L
E
S
89
T
A
N
K
S
90
M
I
R
O
91
E
T
H
92
M
A
R
T
I
A
L
93
C
A
S
K
S
94
B
A
S
S
O
95
N
A
T
96
I
O
N
97
T
E
E
98
P
A
R
E
S
99
M
O
R
M
O
N
100
S
N
I
101
P
E
R
102
C
A
R
P
S
103
T
O
W
N
104
M
105
A
106
C
A
S
S
A
R
107
R
U
N
E
S
108
P
R
O
109
E
110
A
111
C
112
H
113
A
S
H
114
T
H
E
115
S
A
R
D
S
116
H
O
U
N
117
D
118
L
O
A
119
S
P
I
120
T
E
121
A
122
N
T
I
F
A
S
123
C
I
S
T
124
R
125
A
I
N
S
126
T
E
N
O
R
127
N
O
I
S
E
128
E
A
R
T
H
129
U
N
C
A
P
130
S
N
A
P
S
131
S
T
R
E
W
132
D
R
E
S
S
133
M
I
E
N
S
© 1942, The New York Times No. 10
Across
1
U. S. ship sunk by Japan. :
PANAY 6
A President in exile. :
BENES 11
16
21
22
Spanish dispatch boat. :
AVISO 23
24
A country seeking her freedom. :
INDIA 25
U. S. naval base. :
SAMOA 26
28
"Tamper not with idle ___."—Hageman. :
RUMOR 29
30
Commando sorties. :
RAIDS 32
33
35
36
Soviet news agency. :
TASS 38
39
40
42
44
45
46
Coarse swamp grasses. :
SEDGES 49
50
Hawaiian taro paste. :
POI 51
55
56
57
59
12-foot flightless bird. :
MOA 60
Mythical monster: var. :
OGER 61
62
Top projection of a wall. :
CORNICE 63
64
65
66
67
Order of ___, British decoration. :
MERIT 68
70
71
72
73
74
He wears one half-inch gold stripe: abbr. :
ENS 75
Earliest Greek architecture. :
DORIC 76
Young silver-scaled salmon. :
SMOLTS 78
80
83
Single drafts of nets. :
HAULS 84
85
Seat of a puppet government. :
VICHY 86
"___ is the accepted time."—Corinthians. :
NOW 87
Oriental palm trees. :
ENGS 88
89
Units of a Panzer Division. :
TANKS 90
91
Anglo-Saxon letter. :
ETH 92
93
94
95
97
Mark aimed at in curling. :
TEE 98
99
Member of American religious group. :
MORMON 100
102
103
104
107
Symbols of old alphabet. :
RUNES 108
109
113
114
115
116
118
119
121
124
April is the month for these. :
RAINS 126
127
128
Planet third in order from the sun. :
EARTH 129
130
131
132
133
Down
1
2
3
"___ inscribed in History's page."—Manners. :
NAMES 4
5
"The ___'s at the spring."—Browning. :
YEAR 6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Green Mountain boy. :
ETHAN 13
14
"O'er many a frozen, many a fiery ___."—Milton. :
ALP 15
16
17
18
19
French musical instrument. :
VIOLE 20
27
F. D. R.'s secretary. :
EARLY 31
34
Appear at the scene of action. :
ARRIVE 37
39
40
41
43
Complete collection. :
SET 44
45
Headdresses of American Indians. :
BONNETS 46
Beat, in newspaper slang. :
SCOOP 47
"The way of an ___ in the air."—Proverbs. :
EAGLE 48
49
50
52
53
54
"Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans ___, sans everything." :
TASTE 56
57
58
61
62
63
65
66
67
Become a benedict. :
MARRY 69
70
71
73
75
Platforms on airplane carriers. :
DECKS 76
77
78
79
80
81
82
84
85
88
89
90
Battle site of World War I. :
MARNE 92
93
94
96
98
Himalayan bearcat. :
PANDA 99
Mountains at source of the Nile. :
MOON 101
102
103
104
Structures to support aerials. :
MASTS 105
106
Where the dawn comes up like thunder. :
CHINA 107
108
Air warden stations. :
POSTS 110
___ Springs, center of Australia. :
ALICE 111
Middle name of Sherlock Holmes creator. :
CONAN 112
115
116
117
U. S. lieutenant general. :
DRUM 120
122
"The rule of ___ too much."—Milton. :
NOT 123
125
Species of blackbird. :
ANI
Answer summary:1 unique to this puzzle , 155 debuted here and reused later , 1 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 1 word unique to this puzzle:
It has 155 additional words that debuted in this puzzle and were later reused (total number of puzzles in brackets):
Duplicate clues: Male voice.
These words have only appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:
These 18 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 81 blocks, 176 words, 148 open squares, and an average word length of 5.09:
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.