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New York Times, Friday, March 6, 1953

24-Across : Straighten.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 303 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 17, Grid flow: 34.4
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,356
Across
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Tennis services which the opponent fails to touch. : ACES
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Describing a highway. : LANED
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Captain's wheel. : HELM
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Kid Gavilan's birthplace. : CUBA
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"Go it ___." : ALONE
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Inter ___ (among other things): Latin. : ALIA
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Member of Mike Quill's union. : TRANSPORTWORKER
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Bon voyage parties. : SENDOFFS
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Describing white tie and tails. : DRESSY
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Champagne adjective, very dry. : BRUT
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Study under pressure. : CRAM
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Straighten. : UNCURL
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Paper in sheets 13x16 or 17 inches. : FOOLSCAP
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Cleveland's Mr. Doby. : LARRY
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Displays of magnificence. : POMPS
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Strophe, antistrophe, epode. : ODE
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Math course. : TRIG
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Gourmet's meat pastes. : PATES
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Secret message form. : CODE
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Dwelling place: Abbr. : RES
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Small loop on lace. : PICOT
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Zorin's predecessor in the U. N. : MALIK
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Street pavements. : ASPHALTS
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Rights of final decision. : SAYSOS
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Canine palaver in the comic strips. : ARFS
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Behold: Latin. : ECCE
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Thin. : SPARSE
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Makes plans for. : ARRANGES
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He has ruled on tidelands oil. : HERBERTBROWNELL
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Physicist Stern. : OTTO
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Fished for wrigglers. : EELED
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Writer Gardner. : ERLE
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Shape of perfect tones. : PEAR
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Saxophones, et al. : REEDS
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Saw-billed duck. : SMEW
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Vaudeville turns. : ACTS
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Parish priest, in France. : CURE
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Israel's Ambassador to U. S. : EBAN
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75-year-old American poet. : SANDBURG
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Mr. Morgan's midget, for instance. : LAPFUL
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In the air. : ALOFT
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Companions of "neithers." : NORS
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Common suffix. : ENT
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Herbs with white flowers. : DEWDROPS
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Fur seals have them. : HAREMS
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Members of a brotherhood. : ELKS
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Trygve and Guri. : LIES
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Mrs. Lord of U. N. : MARY
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Dismal. : SORRY
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Types of exams. : ORALS
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British jet plane. : COMET
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Extra special. : ULTRA
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The nostrils. : NARES
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A potato chip, in London. : CRISP
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Newspaper pictures. : FOTOS
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Refrigerates. : COOLS
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First word of the quartet in "Boheme." : ADDIO
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Emulates Pandora. : PEEKS
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North Atlantic and others. : PACTS
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Thief. : PILFERER
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A seaport in French Guiana, and its product. : CAYENNES
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Analyze a sentence grammatically. : PARSE
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Parrot. : MACAW
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Cherish, as a thought. : HARBOR
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Fish market specialties. : SCRODS
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Wandered from the straight and narrow path. : ERRED
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Open ___. : SHOP
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Man in a popular saying. : PETE
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Gulf of the Ionian Sea. : ARTA
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Companion of "ready" and "willing." : ABLE
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Unwelcome winter visitor. : GERM
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French pronoun. : ELLE
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Scads of things. : SLEW
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Starting place in a game. : TEE

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17 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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