About these answers
Mini #399'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 APRIL (5-Across), SIEGE (7-Across), TUNES (8-Across), OPIUM (2-Down), ARENA (3-Down) and TIGER (4-Down), at five letters; the shortest are COAT (1-Across), MARS (9-Across), CAST (1-Down) and LESS (6-Down).
The grid uses fourteen different letters. The most common are A, E and S, in three squares each, and 10 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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