Fri Nov 13, 2020 NYT crossword by Sawyer Tabony & Ashton ... Other crosswords with exactly 27 blocks, 72 words, 96 open squares, and an average word length of 5.50: Colorized grid for Fri Nov 13, 2020. The next two sections attempt to show how fresh the grid entries are. In this view, unusual answers are colored depending on how often they have appeared in other puzzles.