Mathematics Crossword Puzzle With Answers By Frank Longo

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New York Times, Friday, June 26, 1998

Pope who persuaded Attila the Hun not to attack Rome

Author:

Frank Longo

Editor:

Will Shortz

Total	Debut	Latest	Collabs
91	10/29/1994	11/24/2019	2

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Variety
15	0	1	3	7	14	29	22

Rebus	Scrabble
4	1.48

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 28 Missing: {BX} Spans: 4, (1 triple stack) This is puzzle # 40 for Mr. Longo.

1 F

2 I

3 S

4 C

5 A

6 V

7 E

8 M

9 A

10 N

11 A

12 M

13 P

14 A

C

T

15 S

O

N

E

S

A

G

E

16 T

A

L

17 T

A

L

E

N

T

S

C

O

U

T

18 T

H

U

19 S

H

E

L

20 S

T

A

R

E

S

21 H

A

M

22 O

N

O

F

23 F

24 P

I

S

25 W

E

R

T

26 G

R

27 O

28 P

E

29 S

I

T

A

R

30 E

31 S

32 Q

U

I

R

E

M

33 A

34 G

A

Z

I

N

E

35 L

O

U

I

S

E

D

E

L

A

R

A

M

E

E

36 A

C

A

D

E

M

I

C

D

E

G

R

E

E

S

37 I

C

K

E

S

38 H

O

L

E

D

39 N

E

E

D

40 C

41 P

A

42 S

O

43 W

44 E

45 D

46 E

R

R

47 S

H

U

N

48 T

49 S

50 F

I

J

I

51 M

P

G

52 A

E

R

I

A

L

53 M

I

N

E

S

54 A

R

U

55 I

R

I

S

M

U

R

D

O

C

H

56 Y

O

N

57 D

I

M

M

E

R

S

58 S

T

Y

© 1998, The New York Times 6/26/98 ( No. 17,762 )

Across

1

4

11

Sound-system part : AMP

14

Refrains from childish behavior : ACTSONESAGE

16

Jazz guitarist Farlow : TAL

17

18

Datebook abbr. : THU

19

Author Silverstein : SHEL

20

Certain putdowns : STARES

21

Liberace, for one : HAM

22

24

Math ratios : PIS

25

Archaic form of "to be" : WERT

26

29

George Harrison popularized it : SITAR

30

Where "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" first appeared : ESQUIREMAGAZINE

35

36

37

Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior : ICKES

38

Hid, with "up" : HOLED

39

Sine qua non : NEED

40

Balancing pro : CPA

42

46

Stumble : ERR

47

50

British colony until 1970 : FIJI

51

Car ad abbr. : MPG

52

54

Indonesia's ___ Islands : ARU

55

56

Pointer's direction : YON

57

58

Cesspool : STY

Down

1

String bean's opposite : FATSO

2

Airline mogul Carl : ICAHN

3

Pope who persuaded Attila the Hun not to attack Rome : STLEO

4

Cell sojourner : CON

5

Amazon ___ : ANTS

6

Life jacket, e.g. : VEST

7

8

Austronesian language : MAORI

9

Feverish fits : AGUES

10

Takes home : NETS

11

12

13

Contents of many California orchards : PLUMTREES

15

23

Piled upholstery fabrics with uncut loops : FRISES

25

27

Utah Lake city : OREM

28

Foot: Prefix : PEDI

29

30

31

32

Dummy firearm, as on a fort : QUAKERGUN

33

Ray of Hollywood : ALDO

34

Highlander : GAEL

40

Darling abroad : CHERI

41

Jewish festival : PURIM

43

Tavern fixtures? : WINOS

44

Pop out of a plane : EJECT

45

Like a gossip column : DISHY

47

The Shirelles' "Mama ___" : SAID

48

49

Musical mark : SLUR

53

Wife, once, with "the" : MRS

Answer summary: 5 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.

Analyzing...

Analysis

There are 15 rows and 15 columns, with 0 circles, 0 rebus squares, and no cheater squares.

The grid uses 24 of 26 letters, missing BX.

It has normal 180-degree rotational crossword symmetry.

Average word length: 5.97, Scrabble score: 332, Scrabble average: 1.69.

Puzzle has 4 fill-in-the-blank clues and 0 cross-reference clues.

This puzzle has 5 unique answer words.

It has 4 words that debuted in this puzzle and were later reused:

These words are unique to the Shortz Era but have appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:

These 35 answer words are not legal Scrabble™ entries, which sometimes means they are interesting:

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Day of week comparisons

The green highlighted squares show which daily puzzle average is closest to this puzzle for each statistical category.

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Distribution of answer words by length

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Letter distribution

Scrabble Score: 1

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Colorized grid for Fri Jun 26, 1998

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Unique answers are in red, red overwrites orange which overwrites yellow, etc.

Unique

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2 others

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Freshness Factor

FF: 52.4 – 87.1 percentile, 66.3 Friday percentile

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Mathematics Crossword Puzzle With Answers By Frank Longo

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