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New York Times, Monday, November 3, 1952

7-Down : Anaconda.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { J Q V W X }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 98, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 16 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 1,233
Across
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Gentle people. : LAMBS
6
Freedom from doubt. : ASSURANCE
15
Dripping. : ALEAK
16
Site of U. S. naval air station. : PENSACOLA
17
As a ruby gleams. : REDLY
18
People, books, doubloons, etc. : TREASURES
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"Shall We Dance?" for instance. : DUET
20
Congressional messenger. : PAGE
21
New Jersey cape. : MAY
22
Companionway. : STAIR
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Man's nickname. : ZEKE
25
Old MacDonald's place. : FARM
26
Name for Massachusetts (with "Old"). : COLONY
28
"I'm ___ wash that man right out of my hair." : GONNA
29
Convened. : SAT
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Gay Nineties' fistic trophy. : BELT
33
More enduring. : HARDER
34
Alexandra was the last. : TSARINA
36
Object of Egyptian worship. : SUNDISK
37
Approval. : ASSENT
38
Sound in a tennis game. : PING
39
Feminine suffix. : ESS
40
Encyclopedias. : TOMES
41
Said "one, two, three" into the microphone. : TESTED
43
Changed plant form. : ECAD
44
Actor Autry. : GENE
45
Cupolas. : DOMES
49
Shade tree. : LIN
50
Nelly Tayloe Ross' department. : MINT
51
5,000 points at canasta. : GAME
52
New Yorker, for instance. : EASTERNER
55
Enchantress. : SIREN
56
Piping in a power plant. : STEAMLINE
57
Legatees. : HEIRS
58
Describing the schooner Hesperus. : SEATOSSED
59
Belgian concert violinist (1858-1931). : YSAYE
Down
1
Garnishes with bacon. : LARDS
2
Native of a U. S. archipelago. : ALEUT
3
Greek sorceress. : MEDEA
4
Memel's sea. : BALTIC
5
Where the Truculent Turtle roams. : SKY
6
Pertinent. : APT
7
Anaconda. : SERPENT
8
Underhanded. : SNEAKY
9
Custom. : USAGE
10
Pull or tear down. : RASE
11
Needle: Comb. form. : ACU
12
Famous French liner. : NORMANDIE
13
Freedom from confusion. : CLEARNESS
14
Gullible ones. : EASYMARKS
23
Round ___. : ROBINS
24
Contemporary of Maupassant. : ZOLA
25
Director of screen plays. : FORD
27
Feb. 18 to April 5, 1953. : LENT
28
Acted as a group (with "up"). : GANGED
29
Without territory. : STATELESS
30
Co-worker. : ASSOCIATE
31
Expanse of water W of New Zealand. : TASMANSEA
33
Marsha or Martita. : HUNT
35
Supreme Court justice. : REED
36
Highest cast in dicing. : SISE
38
In chemistry, a hydrocarbon. : PENTENE
41
Ken McGregor's forte. : TENNIS
42
Motherless calves in a range herd. : DOGIES
44
"Sugar and spice." : GIRLS
46
Soprano Jeritza. : MARIA
47
Polishing powder. : EMERY
48
Reasonableness. : SENSE
50
Jotted note. : MEMO
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Make a knotted lace. : TAT
54
Man's nickname. : RED
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Like a violet. : SHY

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 12 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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