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Evaluation
There are 21 rows and 21 columns, with 6 circles, 6 rebus squares, and 4 cheater squares (marked with “+” within the colorized grid beneath.)
It has regular rotational symmetry.
Puzzle has 4 fill-in-the-blank clues and 1 cross-reference clue.
This puzzle has 12 distinctive reply phrases.
It has 0 phrases that debuted on this puzzle and
have been later reused:
These phrases are distinctive to the Fashionable Period however have appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:
These 55 reply phrases aren’t authorized Scrabble™ entries, which typically means they’re fascinating:
Day of week comparisons
Rebus puzzles are ignored when calculating averages.
Distribution of reply phrases by size
Letter distribution
| Scrabble Rating: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 10 |
Thumbnails
Varied thumbnail views are proven:
- Normal view exhibits 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 exhibits distinctive solutions in purple (see colorized grid beneath)
With solutions
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Crosswords that share essentially the most phrases with this one:
Uncommon or lengthy phrases that seem elsewhere:
Similar grids
Different puzzles with the identical block sample as this one:
Topologically comparable grids
Different crosswords with precisely 74 blocks, 140 phrases, 119 open squares, and a mean phrase size of 5.47:
Colorized grid for Solar Could 25, 2025
The following two sections try to point out how recent the grid entries are.
On this view, uncommon solutions are coloured relying on how usually they’ve appeared in different puzzles.
Distinctive solutions are in purple, purple 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: 42.4 – 73.7 total percentile, 75.0 Sunday percentile
Freshness Issue is a calculation that compares the variety of instances phrases on this puzzle have appeared
in different Fashionable Period puzzles.
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The chart beneath exhibits what number of instances every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, outdated and trendy together with Selection.
