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New York Times, Tuesday, December 9, 1952

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 98, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 20, Grid flow: 22.1
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 1,269
Across
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Big league baseball park. : SHIBE
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Quencher of enthusiasm. : COLDWATER
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Hope-chest wood. : CEDAR
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FBI agent. : OPERATIVE
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Any Bowl on New Year's Day. : ARENA
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Orchestral compositions. : SERENADES
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Artillery command. : LOAD
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What rhino means. : NOSE
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Aphid's keeper. : ANT
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Unpremeditated quip. : ADLIB
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Items for parimutuel. : BETS
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Girl's name. : ALMA
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Key office workers. : TYPERS
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Part of a phrase, "___ never." : NOWOR
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Foot movement in ballet dancing. : PAS
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Spanish-American estuaries. : RIAS
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Vocal. : SONANT
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Not so seldom. : OFTENER
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Slope an edge again. : REBEVEL
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Supports for plants. : STAKES
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Gifford Reynolds ___, American painter. : BEAL
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Watch narrowly. : EYE
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Heads: French. : TETES
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Lake in Canada. : AYLMER
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Caused. : BRED
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Not pretty. : UGLY
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Three-time tennis clay court champion. : RIGGS
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Wood sorrel. : OCA
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Sicilian city. : ENNA
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Dear: Italian. : CARA
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Natives of the smallest Balkan state. : ALBANIANS
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U. S. rubber center. : AKRON
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Lays an impost on. : TALLIATES
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Sprout again. : REBUD
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Typewriting classroom activity. : SPEEDTEST
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Lake islets. : EYOTS
Down
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Opera house at Milan (with "La"). : SCALA
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Governor in Strauss' opera, "Salome." : HEROD
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An aim of attainment. : IDEAL
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"One-armed ___." : BANDIT
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Cycle. : ERA
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Dodecanese island. : COS
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Kitchen gadgets. : OPENERS
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Garden dormice. : LEROTS
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Kind of suit for a formal occasion. : DRESS
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Dwindle. : WANE
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Plural suffix in zoology. : ATA
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Aftermath of Britain's A-test. : TIDALWAVE
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No odds at gambling. : EVENMONEY
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Frighten again. : RESTARTLE
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He had Acheson's job, 1945–47. : BYRNES
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Wall Street pessimist. : BEAR
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Top rating at Lloyd's. : AONE
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Apple, lemon, cherry. : PIES
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Fourteenth word of Hamlet's soliloquy. : NOBLER
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Mail packets. : POSTBOATS
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Unlooked-for ending. : AFTERCLAP
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That can be asserted: Var. : STATEABLE
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Stitched fold. : SEAM
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Used makeshifts (with "out"). : EKED
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Put trust in. : RELY
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Narrow side roads. : BYLANES
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Relative on the fathers' side. : AGNATE
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Top Branch of Pittsburgh's Pirates. : RICKEY
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Member of an Eastern church. : UNIAT
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Famous name in the movies. : GARBO
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Thin mortar poured in to brickwork. : GROUT
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Beaches or deserts. : SANDS
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City in Oklahoma. : ENID
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Half of a half-and-half. : ALE
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Sibilant call for attention. : SST
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"All the Things You ___." : ARE

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 13 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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