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New York Times, Monday, January 28, 1952

64-Across : Goodness: French.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12, Grid flow: 23.8 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 953
Across
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Midyear ordeals. : TESTS
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Twirled. : SPUN
10
Title of a ruler. : TSAR
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He said, "All power corrupts ... " : ACTON
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Department in France. : ORNE
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Most important Hawaiian island. : OAHU
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Refrain of a Yale song. : BOOLA
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Premier of Israel. : BENGURION
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Young eels. : ELVERS
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Merit. : EARN
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Mr. Bevan. : NYE
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Mouthpiece of a clarinet. : REED
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Target of precision bombing. : PINPOINT
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Short lyric poem. : ODELET
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What Petruchio did to Katharine. : TAMED
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Dodecanese island. : COS
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Water pitcher. : EWER
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Embellished. : ORNATE
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Isolates. : ENISLES
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Jeb and Gilbert. : STUARTS
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Five consecutive years. : PENTAD
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Locomotive transportation. : RAIL
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Russian fighter plane. : YAK
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Slang of a particular group. : ARGOT
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Presidential prerogatives. : VETOES
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Frameworks of crossbars. : LATTICES
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Copycat. : APER
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U. N. personality. : LIE
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Excellent. : RARE
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Where Sam Clemens once lived. : ELMIRA
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Healthy. : INTHEPINK
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Rebecca's father, in "Ivanhoe." : ISAAC
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Members of certain religious orders. : FRAS
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In addition. : ELSE
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Goodness: French. : BONTE
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Passage of Scripture. : TEXT
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Think. : DEEM
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Becoming headgear. : SNOOD
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N. Y. Congressman, former chairman of Appropriations Committee. : TABER
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School, in France. : ECOLE
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Range. : STOVE
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City famous for its steel. : TOLEDO
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Old form of tangle. : SNAR
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Sound of grief. : SOB
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Primper. : PREENER
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Worn thin, as a rug. : UNNAPT
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1400-mi. river to the Amazon. : NEGRO
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"High ___," by Maxwell Anderson. : TOR
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"Mater Dolorosa." : SAINTMARY
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Sailor's call. : AHOY
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Character in an ancient alphabet. : RUNE
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Method of delegate voting in national conventions. : UNITRULE
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Poured forth. : SPEWED
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French islands. : ILES
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Novel by Zola. : NANA
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Famed French general who recently died in Paris. : DELATTRE
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Girl's name. : ETTA
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Piece of furniture. : DESK
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An onion. : CEPA
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Extraordinary thing: Colloq. : ONER
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Henry George's ideal. : SINGLETAX
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Unemployed. : OTIOSE
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Greek portico. : STOA
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Fill to repletion. : SATE
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Revise a text. : RECENSE
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Forceful. : VIRILE
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Old Testament hero. : SAMSON
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Fastened with a narrow band. : TAPED
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Iturbi's forte. : PIANO
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Clio's sister. : ERATO
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Ran swiftly. : RACED
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Elevator in London. : LIFT
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Concerning: Latin. : INRE
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Ad ___ (improvises on the stage). : LIBS
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Headline initials. : HST
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Senator from Missouri. : KEM

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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