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Louis Baron
Louis Baron

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New York Times, Sunday, October 13, 1946

66-Down : Democracy-loving conductor.

Author:
Louis Baron
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 178, Blocks: 82, Avg Word Len: 5.02, Missing: { Q }, Scrabble score: 664 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 148, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 45, Grid flow: 30.1 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Louis Baron has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1946, The New York TimesNo. 244
Across
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Intolerant enthusiasts. : BIGOTS
7
Religious or political bias. : PREJUDICE
16
"Aryanism" in action. : RACISM
22
Anti–"Jewish Palestine" monarchy. : ARABIA
23
Simon Bolivar. : LIBERATOR
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Wine city in Portugal. : OPORTO
25
Marianas island. : TINIAN
26
World's most powerful citizens. : AMERICANS
27
Dive bombers. : STUKAS
28
Singular. : ODD
29
Harem rooms. : ODAS
31
Ceremony. : RITE
32
Effortlessness. : EASE
34
Baseball: Slang. : PILL
35
River in W. Germany, 78 m. to the Rhine. : NAHE
37
City in Arizona. : YUMA
39
Pulpit. : DESK
41
Largest type of tooth. : TUSK
43
Never: Ger. : NIE
44
Logging trough. : SLIDE
46
Cabbage plant. : KALE
48
Arch-bladed tool. : ADZE
50
Where Napoleon defeated Blücher, 1815. : LIGNY
52
Sound catchers. : EARS
54
Classical site of rural happiness. : ARCADIA
58
River in Kurdistan, 200 m. to the Tigris. : ZAAB
60
Japan's waning "State Religion." : SHINTO
63
Cleverly creative. : INGENIOUS
65
Fuses. : UNITES
69
Secure. : WIN
70
East Indian hemp. : SUNN
72
Poses. : SITS
73
Missile. : BOMB
75
De ___, discoverer of the Mississippi. : SOTO
76
West point of Aleutians. : ATTU
78
Housing bill sponsor. : TAFT
80
Rivero's capital. : LIMA
82
Famous Southerners : LEES
84
Thus: Lat. : SIC
85
David's weapon. : SLING
87
Insult. : SLAP
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Popularly esteemed. : FAMOUS
91
Large South American heron. : COCOI
93
Tree crow of Java. : TEMIA
94
America's economic monarchs. : CAPITALISTS
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Hindu law court official. : AMALA
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Enraged. : IRATE
98
Old Czarist "concentration camps." : ETAPES
99
Hawaiian royalty. : ALII
100
Double. : BINAL
101
Carry-all bag. : KIT
102
___ Riefenstahl. : LENI
104
Black Hawk's men. : SACS
106
Eugene O'Neill's daughter. : OONA
108
Small monkey. : TITI
109
Symbol of Amenhotep IV. : ATEN
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Subject of Smyth report. : ATOM
113
Takes a taste. : SIPS
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Catch. : NAIL
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Pince-___. : NEZ
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Closed cars. : SEDANS
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Children. : NAMESAKES
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Settle. : DECIDE
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U. N. problem. : VETO
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Second on denazification list. : AUSTRIA
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Leningrad's river. : NEVA
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Where Tripoli is. : LIBYA
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Minus. : LESS
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Favorite Rubens art subject. : NUDE
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Group suspected of bombing Palestine's Hotel King David. : IRGUN
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Pother. : ADO
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Marsh bird. : RAIL
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Ancient Norse war galley. : AESC
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Aztec god of sowing. : XIPE
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Where Belém is. : PARA
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Constructs sartorially. : SEWS
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Wood: Fr. : BOIS
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Native of Fez. : MOOR
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"The promise of Odin." : OATH
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Hamelin's pest. : RAT
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Heat unit in food. : CALORY
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Communist International. : COMINTERN
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Jewish resistance movement in Palestine. : HAGANA
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Spider monkey. : ATELES
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Idea contrary to "One World." : ISOLATION
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Genesis. : ORIGIN
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Refixes. : RESETS
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"Brotherhood of Man," in practice. : TOLERANCE
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Elite. : SELECT
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Truncheons. : BATONS
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Of the rainbow. : IRIDAL
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India's anti-imperialist No. 1 leader. : GANDHI
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Kimono girdle. : OBI
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Chinese string of 1,000 cash. : TIAO
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Alexander. : SANDY
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World War II's biggest hematological boon. : PLASMA
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Circumference. : RIM
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Son of Salah. : EBER
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Persian javelin. : JERID
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Segment of arthropod's abdomen. : URITE
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Golden shiners. : DACES
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Negrito. : ITA
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Tapering cylinder. : CONE
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Phony. : ERSATZ
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England's 30-year civil war, 1455–85. : ROSES
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Suited. : APT
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Sudden strategic political blow. : COUP
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Vexing. : IRKING
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Joseph Vissarionovich. : STALIN
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No. 1 English blackshirt-fascist. : MOSLEY
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Diving birds. : AUKS
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Britain's gateway to empire. : SUEZ
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Robert Anthony ___. : EDEN
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Wolfhound. : ALAN
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New Zealand tree. : KAIO
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Invisible empire of terrorism. : KLAN
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Corrodes. : EATS
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Part of a joule. : ERGS
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Plaster. : DAUB
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Large wading bird. : IBIS
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Defeat. : ROUT
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Wainscot. : CEIL
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Fighter against state dictatorship. : ANTIFASCIST
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Gloomy. : DISMAL
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River of France. : AUBE
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Symbols of fascism. : SWASTIKAS
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Nazi. : HITLERITE
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Implied. : INTIMATED
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Economic specter. : INFLATION
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Denouements. : SOLUTIONS
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Democracy-loving conductor. : TOSCANINI
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Bleached from absence of sunlight. : ETIOLATED
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Convert to public ownership, as industry. : SOCIALIZE
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Incipient. : NASCENT
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City in Sicily. : MESSINA
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An entity. : UNIT
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Bark cloth. : TAPA
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The bowfin. : AMIA
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Plant disease. : SCAB
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Highlander. : GAEL
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Appleseeds. : PIPS
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Christiania. : OSLO
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Fail to include. : OMIT
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Plagues. : TEASES
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Altar's direction, from the nave. : EAST
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Coast Guard woman recruit. : SPAR
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Military assistant. : AIDE
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Blueprinter of "Operation Crossroads." : NAVY
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Venlo's river. : MAAS
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Epidermis. : SKIN
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Son of Jacob. : LEVI
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Contiguous. : NEAR
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"Forty Days of ___ Dagh"—Franz Werfel. : MUSA
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Perfumes. : EAUX
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Pond fish. : CARP
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Potpourri. : OLIO
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Water scorpion. : NEPA
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East Indian seaman. : LASCAR
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Create mentally. : IDEATE
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Nutmeg politician. : BOWLES
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Draw out. : ELICIT
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Name famous since May 28, 1934. : DIONNE
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Auto shed. : GARAGE
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Of a potent source of atomic energy. : URANIC
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Floating. : NATANT
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Bottomless pit. : ABYSS
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Rousseau's hero, 1762. : EMILE
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Sound navigation and ranging. : SONAR
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Terra ___. : COTTA
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Nature and character of a people. : ETHOS
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Pad of the foot. : SOLE
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Fair-to-middlin'. : SOSO
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Restraint. : REIN
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Swift rodent. : HARE
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Macerate. : RET
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Minor, in music. : MOL
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Fabulous white bird. : ROC
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Man's nickname. : GIL

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 36 debuted here and reused later, 16 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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