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New York Times, Wednesday, November 1, 1950

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { H J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 20, Grid flow: 28.7
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© 1950, The New York TimesNo. 500
Across
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New Ambassador to Britain. : GIFFORD
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Believers in the superiority of certain human groups. : RACISTS
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Supervise. : OVERSEE
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Adaptation of the turkey trot. : ONESTEP
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Befits. : BESEEMS
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Morning glory. : SUNRISE
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Those devoted to certain doctrines. : ISTS
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Belgian Congo pygmy. : AKKA
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Fruit pastry. : TARTS
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Candidate for Mayor in N. Y. C. : CORSI
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Exist. : ARE
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___ and Brown, transatlantic fliers, June 14, 1919. : ALCOCK
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Place. : LOCALITY
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Mark of omission. : CARET
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Swiss falsetto. : YODEL
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Bambi's mother. : DOE
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Red riders of the plains. : UTES
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Apples and pears. : POMES
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Duration of office. : TERM
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Setup for Sam Snead. : TEE
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Running mate of prices. : WAGES
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Vex. : TEASE
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Plainly stated. : EXPLICIT
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Supreme Court chief. : VINSON
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Sooner than. : ERE
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British actress in "Daphne Laureola." : EVANS
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Serf. : SLAVE
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Basic commodity in the steel industry. : IRON
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Check. : CURB
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Expedient. : POLITIC
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Too-demanding person. : IMPOSER
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Perturbs. : AGITATE
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Native of Egyptian city. : CAIRENE
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Made a new machine script. : RETYPED
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Joined in. : ENTERED
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Asia's great desert. : GOBI
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New York Senator. : IVES
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Gab ___. : FEST
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Artwork on fresh plaster. : FRESCOES
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Suffix for sugars. : OSE
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Observe. : REMARK
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Office equipment. : DESKS
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Bonheur or Ponselle. : ROSA
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Babylonian sky god. : ANU
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One-time telephone girl. : CENTRAL
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Country that is irrigating deserts. : ISRAEL
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Move. : STIR
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Ordeal. : TEST
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Roman goddess of hope. : SPES
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Nearly five-eighths of a mile. : KILOMETER
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Brown ale month: Abbr. : OCT
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Firstraters. : ACES
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Intense. : ACUTE
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Raw liquid rubber. : LATEX
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Stealthy method of locomotion. : CREEP
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Poems. : ODES
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Concepts. : IDEAS
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Trunk of the body. : TORSO
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Arab state. : YEMEN
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Catcher Berra. : YOGI
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Secretary of the Army. : PACE
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Two hundred. : TENSCORE
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Secret line on a phone hookup. : WIRETAP
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Bolivian mine product. : TIN
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Unseemly frivolity. : LEVITY
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Moving trucker. : VANMAN
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Frank Sinatra. : VOICE
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Coast Guard girl. : SPAR
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Theatre box. : LOGE
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Landed upon. : ALIT
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Cooled. : ICED
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Consumer. : USER
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Tennis player LaCoste. : RENE
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Raised livestock. : BRED
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Common suffix. : ITE
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Where wheat is sold on the Stock Exchange. : PIT

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 18 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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