About these answers
Mini #322's ten answers fill 21 white squares, and every one of them is crossed, so each letter belongs to one Across and one Down answer. The longest answers are POPES (4-Across), GOPRO (6-Across), ALLOW (7-Across), FOOLS (1-Down), APPLE (2-Down) and XEROX (3-Down), at five letters; the shortest are FAX (1-Across), SEX (8-Across), PGA (4-Down) and SOW (5-Down).
The grid uses eleven different letters. The most common is O, in four squares, and 8 of the 21 squares hold a vowel (A, E, I, O or U). It includes X, one of the four letters (J, Q, X and Z) that turn up least often in English.
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