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Evaluation
There are 21 rows and 21 columns, with 0 rebus squares, and 20 cheater squares (marked with “+” within the colorized grid under.)
The grid makes use of 23 of 26 letters, lacking JQZ.
It has mirror symmetry.
Common phrase size: 6.32, Scrabble rating: 569, Scrabble common: 1.54.
Puzzle has 10 fill-in-the-blank clues and 1 cross-reference clue.
Grid circulation: 49.5 is on the 86.1 percentile of all Trendy Period crosswords.
Duplicate clues: Allude (to)
This puzzle has 18 distinctive reply phrases.
It has 0 phrases that debuted on this puzzle and
have been later reused:
These phrases are distinctive to the Trendy Period however have appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:
These 55 reply phrases will not be authorized Scrabble™ entries, which typically means they’re attention-grabbing:
Day of week comparisons
Rebus puzzles are ignored when calculating averages. Circulation averages additionally exclude disconnected grids.
Distribution of reply phrases by size
Letter distribution
| Scrabble Rating: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 10 |
Thumbnails
Numerous thumbnail views are proven:
- Commonplace view reveals the grid sample most clearly
- Open Squares (these which do not contact any block, even diagonally) are blue
- Vowel distribution
- Scrabble rating makes use of the identical shade key as above
- Freshness view reveals distinctive solutions in pink (see colorized grid under)
With solutions
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Uncommon or lengthy phrases that seem elsewhere:
An identical grids
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Topologically related grids
Different crosswords with precisely 71 blocks, 117 phrases, 180 open squares, and a mean phrase size of 6.32:
Colorized grid for Solar Nov 2, 2025
The subsequent two sections try to indicate how contemporary the grid entries are.
On this view, uncommon solutions are coloured relying on how typically they’ve appeared in different puzzles.
Distinctive solutions are in pink, pink overwrites orange which overwrites yellow, and so on.
Cheater squares are indicated with a + signal.
| Distinctive | 1 different | 2 others | 3 others | 4 others |
Freshness Issue
Freshness rating: 66.4 – 99.2 general percentile, 99.9 Sunday percentile
Freshness Issue is a calculation that compares the variety of instances phrases on this puzzle have appeared
in different Trendy Period puzzles.
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The chart under reveals what number of instances every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, previous and trendy together with Selection.
