Can you name the most frequently used words in a New York Times crossword puzzle (as of 10/04/09)? by geniusonwheels

# of times used	Answer	Clue
346		Historical period
328		Zone
309		Bard's before
291		Yale student
287		Next to nothing?
281		Buffalo's lake
265		Natural healer
264		Lode load
255		Ginger ___
254		Took in
251		J.F.K. info
245		St. Louis-to-Indianapolis dir.
244		'The Greatest'
244		'You ___ here'
243		World Cup cheer

# of times used	Answer	Clue
242		Perfect plot
238		Opera excerpt
238		Double curve
238		Wrath
235		Slip up
234		Table center piece?
234		Language suffix
225		Otherwise
225		Born as
220		Like
220		Musician's gift
220		Sushi fish
219		Brouhaha
212		Air Force hero
211		Sauna locale

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Most Common Crosswordese Quiz

by geniusonwheels

Created Oct 4, 2009 in Language
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	Kicking222:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 13:51 GMT	-1 points
	Alas, made this a couple of months ago, but they haven't used it.

	geniusonwheels:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 16:31 GMT	1 point
	I don't see it in your profile.

	marpocky:	Oct 9th, 2009 at 01:56 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz! Maybe change "like" to "in the manner of"

	rockgolf:	Oct 9th, 2009 at 18:29 GMT	4 points
	@GOW: Got your link from Ken's page. Kicking222 is correct. See http://www.sporcle.com/create/test/f74ee - Kicking & I, among others got to alpha-test the quiz make, but "contributed" quizzes were not an option.

	Qsexy:	Nov 23rd, 2009 at 03:46 GMT	9 points
	Would be better if you included how many letters each have.

	googlebird:	Jan 19th, 2010 at 03:21 GMT	1 point
	It's fine the way it is. Very doable for crossword solvers, but others should enjoy it too.

	crispyceme:	Apr 18th, 2010 at 19:00 GMT	1 point
	As an avid crossword puzzler, I can say that I.... am still not very good with the NY Times puzzles. :/ Nice quiz!

	jefe_:	Apr 20th, 2010 at 02:00 GMT	1 point
	great quiz, too much time though. take off 4 minutes maybe?

	sproutcm:	May 17th, 2010 at 19:36 GMT	-1 points
	And here is my version of only E-crosswordese words. http://www.sporcle.com/games/sproutcm/EaseCrosswordese

	wilsonhubbell:	May 17th, 2010 at 19:48 GMT	1 point
	Fine idea...whoever had it first. But what I would like to see is a words people only know well because of crossword puzzles. ELI would be on there. As would EPEE, ARIA,and STYE.

	miyomiyo1:	May 17th, 2010 at 23:21 GMT	4 points
	Just stylistically– please make the middle column thinner and the right column longer so that each one fits on one line. Also, as per the Sporcle norm, it would make more sense for the clue to be on the left and the number of usages (extra information) to be on the right.

	Navarro2814:	May 18th, 2010 at 00:17 GMT	1 point
	I got ore because I was typing oreo. I was partially disappointed the worlds best cookie wasnt on here

	dtherfel:	May 21st, 2010 at 17:40 GMT	1 point
	Surprised "Brian of pop music" didn't crack the list.

	QuintFan:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 03:03 GMT	1 point
	I don't like the clue for Eden "perfect plot." I've seen Eden a billion times in crosswords, but don't recognize that clue. I think the clue for Ala is also poor. Otherwise, fine.