Analysis

There are 15 rows and 15 columns, with 0 rebus squares, and a couple of cheater squares (marked with “+” within the colorized grid beneath.)

The grid makes use of 23 of 26 letters, lacking JQZ.

It has regular rotational symmetry.

Average phrase size: 4.79, Scrabble rating: 300, Scrabble common: 1.60.

Puzzle has 10 fill-in-the-blank clues and 1 cross-reference clue.

This puzzle has 2 distinctive reply phrases.

It has 0 phrases that debuted on this puzzle and
had been later reused:

These phrases are distinctive to the Shortz Era however have appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:

These 27 reply phrases are usually not authorized Scrabble™ entries, which generally means they’re fascinating:

Day of week comparisons

The inexperienced highlighted squares present which each day puzzle common is closest to this puzzle for every statistical class.

Distribution of reply phrases by size

Letter distribution

Thumbnails

Various thumbnail views are proven:

• Standard 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 coloration key as above
• Freshness view exhibits distinctive solutions in pink (see colorized grid beneath)

With solutions

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Unusual or lengthy phrases that seem elsewhere:

Identical grids

Other puzzles with the identical block sample as this one:

Topologically related grids

Other crosswords with precisely 38 blocks, 78 phrases, 63 open squares, and a median phrase size of 4.79:

Colorized grid for Mon Dec 19, 2022

The subsequent two sections try to point out how contemporary the grid entries are.

In this view, uncommon solutions are coloured relying on how usually they’ve appeared in different puzzles.

Unique solutions are in pink, pink overwrites orange which overwrites yellow, and so forth.

Cheater squares are indicated with a + signal.

Freshness Factor

FF: 16.7 – 24.1 percentile, 58.5 Monday percentile

Freshness Factor is a calculation that compares the variety of occasions phrases on this puzzle have appeared
in different Shortz Era puzzles.
Click right here for an evidence.

The chart beneath exhibits what number of occasions every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, previous and fashionable together with Variety.