About these answers
Mini #379's ten answers fill 23 white squares, and every one of them is crossed, so each letter belongs to one Across and one Down answer. The longest answers are SLICE (5-Across), OUNCE (6-Across), FEDUP (7-Across), BLUES (1-Down), LINDA (2-Down) and OCCUR (3-Down), at five letters; the shortest are BLOW (1-Across), TSAR (8-Across), WEEP (4-Down) and SOFT (5-Down).
The grid uses sixteen different letters. The most common is E, in three squares, and 9 of the 23 squares hold a vowel (A, E, I, O or U). There’s no J, Q, X or Z in it.
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