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New York Times, Monday, October 28, 1957

23-Across : ___ were (so to speak).

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 29.3
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© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 3,044
Across
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Thunder. : CLAP
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Back: Prefix. : RETRO
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Destructive animals. : RATS
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Anger: Colloq. : RILE
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Postulate. : AXIOM
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Nymph ignored by Narcissus. : ECHO
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Send forth. : EMIT
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Historic residence of sovereigns. : BUCKINGHAM
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Suitable for one's wardrobe. : WEARABLE
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Unruffled. : SERENE
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___ were (so to speak). : ASIT
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"God have mercy on such ___ ... " : ASWE
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Torment of Tantalus. : THIRST
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Light rapid movement. : FLITTING
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Ergo. : HENCE
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Nigeria's capital. : LAGOS
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Zero. : NIL
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Oriental maid. : AMAH
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Begin. : SETIN
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Novelist exiled by Napoleon III. : HUGO
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Electrolyte part. : ION
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Riding horse. : STEED
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Warnings on the links. : FORES
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Boy's footwear. : SNEAKERS
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Toastmaster's audience. : DINERS
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Controvert. : DENY
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Be undecided. : PEND
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Ignoble. : SORDID
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A turning for aid. : RECOURSE
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Botanical garden structure. : GREENHOUSE
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Rivulet. : RILL
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Where Lookout Mountain is: Abbr. : TENN
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Incendiarism. : ARSON
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Middle East League. : ARAB
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Cutter. : SLED
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"___ said, soonest mended." : LEAST
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Dotted, as with stars. : SEME
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Group. : CREW
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Fruit. : LIME
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Inter ___. : ALIA
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Italian poet and humanist (1304—74). : PETRARCH
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Warren dweller. : RABBIT
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Jubilate. : EXULT
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A yorker, in cricket. : TICE
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Korean soldier. : ROK
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Neglect. : OMISSION
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Compunction. : REGRET
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Flu symptom. : ACHE
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Conjunction. : THAN
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Unspecified amount. : SOME
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Salamanders. : NEWTS
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So. African fox. : ASSE
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Chilly. : ALGID
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Massenet opera. : THAIS
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French novelist, wrote "Maria Chapdelaine." : HEMON
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Lacking sense. : INANE
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Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. : FATES
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Take effect. : INURE
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African river. : NIGER
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Deceptive appearance. : GLOSS
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Suspicious: Slang. : LEERY
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Pen name of great novelist. : STENDHAL
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Tegucigalpa is its capital. : HONDURAS
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Flock of wild geese. : SKEIN
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Delicate: Span. : FINO
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Plus quantity, in mathematics. : ADDEND
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Fair. : DECENT
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Silver coins. : PESOS
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Three-stripers: Abbr. : SGTS
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Black Earth city. : OREL
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M. Pleven. : RENE
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Genus of deer. : RUSA
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To laugh: Fr. : RIRE
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Loud noise. : SLAM
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Hamburg's river. : ELBE
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Bauxite. : ORE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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