Evaluation

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

The grid makes use of 21 of 26 letters, lacking JQVXZ.

It has regular 180-degree rotational crossword symmetry.

Common phrase size: 5.63, Scrabble rating: 289, Scrabble common: 1.47.

Puzzle has 2 fill-in-the-blank clues and 0 cross-reference clues.

This puzzle has 2 distinctive reply phrases.

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

These 28 reply phrases are usually not authorized Scrabble™ entries, which generally means they’re attention-grabbing:

Day of week comparisons

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

Distribution of reply phrases by size

Letter distribution

Thumbnails

Varied thumbnail views are proven:

• Customary 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 pink (see colorized grid under)

With solutions

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Different crosswords with precisely 28 blocks, 70 phrases, 97 open squares, and a mean phrase size of 5.63:

Colorized grid for Sat Jul 30, 2022

The following two sections try to indicate how recent 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.

Freshness Issue

FF: 36.3 – 63.0 percentile, 17.0 Saturday percentile

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

The chart under exhibits what number of instances every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, outdated and fashionable together with Selection.