About these answers
Mini #387'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 ALLAH (5-Across), CLARA (7-Across), HOMES (8-Across), ALLOW (2-Down), LLAMA (3-Down) and DARES (4-Down), at five letters; the shortest are BALD (1-Across), WASH (9-Across), BACH (1-Down) and HASH (6-Down).
The grid uses twelve different letters. The most common is A, in six squares, and 8 of the 23 squares hold a vowel (A, E, I, O or U). There’s no J, Q, X or Z in it.
The trickier clues, explained
- 1-Down, “Composer Johann Sebastian ___”: the blank is BACH, giving “Composer Johann Sebastian BACH”.
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