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New York Times, Wednesday, March 10, 1954

9-Down : Actor Brynner.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,716
Across
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Former resident of Luxembourg. : MESTA
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President of France. : COTY
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Where border war rages. : LAOS
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Cast out. : EXPEL
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Two-toed sloth. : UNAU
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"What's My ___?" : LINE
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Three-banded armadillo. : APARA
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Important contributor to a carillon. : BELLMAKER
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Pointer. : DOG
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Hammerhead. : SHARK
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Greek letter. : OMEGA
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Moved by agitation. : SHAKEN
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Current Broadway hit. : ALMANAC
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Belonging to winter. : HIEMAL
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Powerful bits. : ATOMS
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Lawyer: Abbr. : ATTY
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Wouk's subject. : MUTINY
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The doughboys. : AEF
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Plots. : LOTS
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Range. : STOVE
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Attractive. : CUTE
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Calendar abbr. : FRI
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Facial expressions. : SMILES
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North Carolina Revolutionary hero. : ASHE
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Play for time. : STALL
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Hindu weavers. : TANTIS
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Italian star. : MAGNANI
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The stomach: Comb. form. : GASTRO
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Of the ear. : AURAL
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Actress Moore. : TERRY
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Supplement: Abbr. : APP
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Prop used by some acrobats. : SLACKWIRE
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Current best seller by Maurois. : LELIA
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Amtrack. : TANK
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Preliminary race. : HEAT
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Bathsheba's husband. : URIAH
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Square dancing groups. : SETS
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Mount in Greece. : OSSA
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Property. : MEANS
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Largest man-made lake, at Hoover dam. : MEAD
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Role of a news commentator. : EXPOSITOR
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Basis of many dishes. : SPAGHETTI
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Threefold: Comb. form. : TER
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Where Mt. McKinley is. : ALASKA
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Kid Gavilan, for instance. : CUBAN
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Unique personality. : ONER
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Loquacious. : TALKATIVE
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Actor Brynner. : YUL
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Andes grazers. : LLAMAS
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Senator from Vermont. : AIKEN
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River into White Sea. : ONEGA
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Ice pinnacle. : SERAC
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Papa's valentine. : MOMMY
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He's behind the wheel. : HELMSMAN
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Miss March and others. : AMYS
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Device on a state flag. : LONESTAR
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Part of a football game. : HALF
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Dot in the Pacific. : ATOLL
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Electric power, gas, water, etc. : UTILITIES
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Site for 1956 Olympics. : AUSTRALIA
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Subject of Haile Selassie. : ETHIOPIAN
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Charges. : FEES
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Secret jargon. : CANT
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Pursue stealthily. : STALK
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Diet disrupters. : SNACKS
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Refuge. : ASYLUM
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Spars. : MASTS
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Assembly halls in German schools. : AULAE
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General of 1866. : GRANT
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Garbo. : GRETA
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Periods of time. : ERAS
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Contemptuous exclamations. : PAHS
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Song title. : WHO
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Before. : ERE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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