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New York Times, Friday, April 27, 1951

23-Across : Tidy: Obs.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 64, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 6.00, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 96, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 29 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
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© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 677
Across
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" ... from ___ to Aix." : GHENT
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Stylish new coats. : DUSTERS
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What firemen go to. : BLAZES
14
Comes into somebody else's own. : INHERITS
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Eskimo boat, paddled by women. : OOMIAK
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Derisive. : SCORNFUL
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Provides with protective plating. : ARMORS
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Wee bairn. : TOT
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Former Met star. : ALDA
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Brazil's capital. : RIO
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Proclivity. : BENT
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Tidy: Obs. : NEET
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Redundant Samoan port. : PANGOPANGO
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Large suburb of Paris, on the Seine. : ISSY
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What India has become. : INDEPENDENT
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It usually holds about 18 gals. : GASTANK
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Emerald. : SMARAGD
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Its meat is got at with a nutcracker. : LOBSTERCLAW
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She danced "Body and Soul" with Clifton Webb. : GEVA
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Widely mispronounced word meaning sorrowful. : LAMENTABLE
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Les Etats ___. : UNIS
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Odoriferous. : OLID
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Everything. : ALL
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"Bloomin' ___ made of mud." : IDOL
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Mild oath. : GAD
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Friendly: Fr. : AMICAL
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Enlarging. : DILATING
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He won the Pulitzer Prize, 1948, for "Across the Wide Missouri." : DEVOTO
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Disappear gradually. : EVANESCE
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Poisonous chemical compound. : AMARIN
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Country places. : ESTATES
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Home-run hitting Indian. : ROSEN
Down
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Great queen in "The Faerie Queene." : GLORIANA
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John Hays Sr. and Jr. : HAMMONDS
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He plays opposite Lana in his first movie. : EZIO
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Miserly. : NEAR
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Sounds of sympathy. : TSKS
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Stretch. : DISTEND
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Clear, unlike some streets. : UNCONGESTED
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The Dodgers of 1950. : SHOTTONMEN
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Three times: Comb. form. : TER
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Opera by Verdi, based on Hugo play. : ERNANI
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Garands. : RIFLES
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College men: Slang. : STUDES
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Young male swine. : BOARPIG
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Of gray-blue color. : SLATY
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The important figure in your checkbook. : BANKBALANCE
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Understand: Colloq. : GET
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An October birthstone. : OPAL
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Prison warden. : PENOLOGIST
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Queen of Hearts' recipe. : TART
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The highest neon letters in N. Y. C. : RCA
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Large fish of the tunny family. : ALBACORE
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He was Secretary of Treasury twelve years, 1801-13. : GALLATIN
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Linger over in thought, speech or writing: 2 wds. : DWELLON
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Tiny bits. : SMIDGES
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He'll show you Chinatown, Grant's Tomb, etc. : GUIDE
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Fancy salad green. : ENDIVE
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Instruments of the string quartet and orchestra. : VIOLAS
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Sloping. : ASLANT
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Hebrew month. : ADAR
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That scribble on the telephone pad. : MEMO
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Bugle plants. : IVAS
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Predecessor of the cocktail party. : TEA

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 19 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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