About these answers
Mini #398'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 FELIX (5-Across), ELITE (6-Across), ELVES (7-Across), BELLY (1-Down), ALIVE (2-Down) and SITES (3-Down), at five letters; the shortest are BASE (1-Across), DYES (8-Across), EXES (4-Down) and FEED (5-Down).
The grid uses twelve different letters. The most common is E, in seven squares, and 10 of the 23 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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