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New York Times, Tuesday, December 22, 1953

8-Down : Texas Congressman.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { F J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,638
Across
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Wall Street operator. : BEAR
5
Bakery. : SHOP
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Meeting place of serious students. : LIBE
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River north of Paris. : OISE
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Nuts yielding caffeine. : KOLAS
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Relative of Agnes. : INEZ
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Bestseller about the Air Force (with "The"). : BRIDGESATTOKORI
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Mariners. : SEADOGS
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Napoleon's Austrian victory, 1800. : MARENGO
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Kind of wear in a haberdashery. : MENS
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Members of the "Fighting Sixth." : MARINES
24
Ancient classic. : ILIAD
26
Seaport of eastern Scotland. : DUNDEE
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U. S. envoy to Madrid. : DUNN
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Concealed. : HID
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Destroyed. : UNDONE
33
Year: Spanish. : ANO
34
Person using adroit but fallacious reasoning. : SOPHIST
36
Sight: French. : VUE
37
Where to catch trout. : STREAM
39
Time zone: Abbr. : EST
40
Madison Square Garden item. : BELL
41
Creator of Uncle Toby. : STERNE
43
In the near future. : EARLY
44
Stores on the farm. : ENSILES
46
The year "King Lear" was first played. : MDCV
47
Showed contempt. : SNEERED
48
Wassail holder. : TANKARD
51
Southern industrial area. : TENNESSEEVALLEY
53
British composer. : ARNE
54
Rest home in Ankara. : SERAI
55
English river. : OUSE
56
___ de Boulogne, park on outskirts of Paris. : BOIS
57
Last word of a Hemingway title. : ARMS
58
Comes by. : GETS
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Hair-dos of the 1920's. : BOBS
2
Country with many bachelors. : EIRE
3
Part of the globe. : ASIAMINOR
4
Dr. Hewlett Johnson. : REDDEAN
5
Parts of keels. : SKEGS
6
Autry's Champion. : HOSS
7
Palm leaf. : OLA
8
Texas Congressman. : PATMAN
9
Compared. : LIKENED
10
Three ___. : INONE
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Pieces of glaciers. : BERGS
12
Italian man's name. : EZIO
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One of Crosby's favorites. : STARDUST
18
Indian native. : GOND
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Tibet, Nepal, Burma, etc. : ORIENT
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Coots or gallinules. : MUDHENS
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Mrs. Cantor and others. : IDAS
25
One of a famous acting team. : LUNT
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Slope down. : DIP
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"Send these, the ___, tempest-tost to me ... " : HOMELESS
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Estimate too highly. : OVERVALUE
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Of no value. : NULL
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Slithery. : EELY
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Branch of literature. : SATIRE
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Honshu bay. : ISE
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Ancient cenobites. : ESSENES
40
Unfilled orders, for instance. : BACKLOG
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Waterway of Biblical fame. : REDSEA
43
Miss Ferber. : EDNA
44
January in Buenos Aires. : ENERO
45
Italian left-wing Socialist. : NENNI
46
European song thrush. : MAVIS
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Attempt: Colloq. : STAB
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Word in a college cheer. : TEAM
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Lie fallow. : REST
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Aniline products. : DYES
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Do wrong. : ERR

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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