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New York Times, Wednesday, October 22, 1952

6-Down : An incident in real life.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 94, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 1,221
Across
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Dwellers by a famous tower. : PISANS
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Performer at the microphone. : VOCALIST
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Sarcastic. : IRONIC
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A moral fable. : APOLOGUE
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A vacation asea. : CRUISE
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Plays in Rugby football. : LINEOUTS
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Part of the dicky bird's song. : TIT
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Dartmouth's football team. : INDIANS
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Lawyer: Abbr. : ATT
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Expressions of aversion. : UGHS
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Direction faced by Miss Liberty. : EAST
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Poison for arrow tips. : INEE
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Fast-moving. : RAPID
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Floral emblem of Wales. : LEEK
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Program. : CARD
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And elsewhere: Latin. : ETALIBI
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Disposal. : SALE
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Skin fold under an ox's neck. : DEWLAP
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Men of great wealth. : NABOBS
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Name meaning "man." : ENOS
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A few. : SEVERAL
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Above: German. : UBER
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Lo; behold: Latin. : ECCE
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Actress MacMahon. : ALINE
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"His name was Dapple Gray." : PONY
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League of which Egypt is a member. : ARAB
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In music, a whole step. : TONE
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A short smoke. : CIG
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Heroine of "Great Expectations." : ESTELLA
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Wool-staple knot. : NEP
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Estrange. : ALIENATE
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Name for New York or Georgia. : EMPIRE
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Name for a newspaper. : SENTINEL
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Alloy for uniting metal joints. : SOLDER
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Tramplers. : TREADERS
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Appointed meetings. : TRYSTS
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Imagined, described or drew. : PICTURED
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Water. : IRRIGATE
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"Preacher" Roe, for instance. : SOUTHPAW
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Arch-billed cuckoo. : ANI
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Unless: Latin. : NISI
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An incident in real life. : SCENE
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A piece of baggage. : VALISE
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Products of the poppy. : OPIATES
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Where Purtell and Benton are running: Abbr. : CONN
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English festivals. : ALES
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Chinese name. : LOO
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Large lizard. : IGUANA
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Frontiersman of the California gold rush. : SUTTER
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Examined. : TESTED
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Spanish painter. : DALI
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A French wine. : SILLERY
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Arctic wall of ice. : ICEBELT
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Girl's name. : DIAN
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Orson Welles role, "Citizen ___." : KANE
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Brotherhood founded in 1868. : BPOE
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Product of Hibok Hibok. : LAVA
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Certain showers of meteors. : ORIONIDS
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Small flag. : BANNERET
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Railroad cars. : SLEEPERS
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Disperse. : SCATTER
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Ornamental stamp. : SEAL
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Directed aloft. : UPCAST
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Kettle. : BOILER
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It makes the wheels go round. : ENGINE
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Receptacles for fish. : CREELS
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Hallowed. : BLEST
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City in Oklahoma. : ENID
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Logical. : SANE
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Winged child in art. : AMOR
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Fraternity letter. : ETA
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Layer of cloth. : PLY

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 11 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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