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Will UIUC be an entry in a New York Times crossword by end of 2024?

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I was surprised to learn that UIUC (abbr. for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) has never appeared in any daily New York Times crossword, since most legit or semi-legit four-letter entries have! (The much clunkier YALEU has appeared five times...)

https://www.xwordinfo.com/Finder?word=UIUC (you can also use this site to enter other entries to compare)

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I expect it's that it hasn't come up because it's not an acronym that comes readily to mind, and if you were a human building a crossword trying different permutations, you wouldn't necessarily think UIUC was a real thing unless you had heard it before.

@BoltonBailey The large number of vowels is also kind of strange. And it's not terrible to guess.

Ooh, this is surprising

I just looked up IUPUI and that doesn't have any hits either

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