In 43-Down, SMILES is clued as "Popular song by Vincent Youmans." "Smiles" appears to have been the name of a Broadway show Youmans worked on, not any specific song from it.
1 C | 2 L | 3 O | 4 P | 5 S | 6 E | 7 L | 8 F | 9 P | 10 R | 11 A | 12 H | 13 A |
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14 H | A | I | R | 15 A | N | I | L | 16 L | E | G | A | L |
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17 I | D | L | E | 18 T | R | A | Y | 19 A | V | E | R | T |
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20 E | L | E | C | 21 T | R | O | N | 22 S | I | E | S | T | A |
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23 F | E | D | E | R | A | L | A | 24 G | E | N | T | |||
25 D | A | P | S | 26 O | R | E | 27 H | 28 A | 29 H |
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30 R | 31 E | 32 M | E | D | Y | 33 S | W | A | N | 34 S | O | N | G |
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35 A | T | O | N | E | 36 P | U | N | 37 G | H | O | S | T |
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38 F | O | O | T | S | 39 T | E | P | 40 S | L | O | P | E | S |
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41 T | N | T | 42 E | R | R | 43 S | T | I | R | |||||
44 S | C | O | U | 45 T | M | A | S | T | 46 E | 47 R | 48 S |
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49 P | 50 A | 51 L | T | R | Y | 52 H | I | G | H | S | P | O | T |
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53 A | D | O | R | E | 54 B | A | L | E | 55 T | O | T | O |
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56 L | I | C | I | T | 57 O | N | E | R | 58 O | D | O | R |
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59 S | T | O | P | S | 60 B | E | S | S | 61 P | E | R | K |
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 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.