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WITH HINTS FROM THE HEADLINES
New York Times, Sunday, February 10, 1946
Author:
C. L. Cross
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 172 , Blocks: 82 , Avg Word Len: 5.20 , Missing: { J Q X Z } , Scrabble score: 673 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 155 , Cheaters: 0 , FITB: 2 , XRef: 0 , Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 71
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© 1946, The New York Times No. 209
Across
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Ex-Senator, now Supreme Court justice. :
BLACK 6
Seaport in W Yugoslavia. :
SPLIT 11
Jap war criminal. :
HOMMA 16
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Native of New Zealand. :
MAORI 23
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Blackmore heroine, 1869. :
LORNA 29
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City having four Allied zones. :
BERLIN 32
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Italian news agency. :
ANSA 37
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Instrumentalist on strings. :
VIOLIST 42
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Nazi in dock in Nuremberg. :
HESS 46
Reddish red-yellow. :
HENNA 47
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Dances in Sandwich Islands. :
HULAS 60
Treaty port on Yangtze. :
WUHU 61
Hard, close-grained wood. :
BIRCH 62
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Defunct Nazi "labor leader." :
LEY 71
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Harvard president, atomic adviser to Byrnes in Moscow. :
CONANT 74
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S. S. Van Dine's Mr. Vance. :
PHILO 77
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Ferryman on the Styx. :
CHARON 83
Golfer voted top male athlete, 1945. :
NELSON 85
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Show feeling: Colloq. :
EMOTE 96
Noted physician-teacher (1849–1919). :
OSLER 98
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British Ambassador to U. S. :
KERR 101
Prosperous Russian farmer. :
KULAK 102
Velocipedes: Colloq. :
BIKES 103
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750 mi. river, to Gulf of Siam. :
MENAM 107
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What the Big Inch carried. :
OIL 119
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Henri Spaak is its president. :
UNO 124
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President of United Automobile Workers. :
THOMAS 129
Office of Cardinal. :
HAT 130
Edible gastric tissue. :
TRIPE 132
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Chairman of Senate Naval Affairs Committee. :
WALSH 136
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Promising person: Slang. :
COMER 138
Roman dictator B. C. 138–78. :
SULLA 139
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Dutch painter (1626–79). :
STEEN 143
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Town in S. Netherlands. :
BREDA 2
Source of vitamin C. :
LEMON 3
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Vertical part of British gutter. :
KERB 6
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U. S. representative on Allied Reparations Commission. :
PAULEY 8
French novelist (1850–1923). :
LOTI 9
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Its atomic weight is 118.70. :
TIN 11
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American social reformer (1793–1880). :
MOTT 15
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President of General Motors. :
WILSON 17
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Italian physicist, worked on atomic bomb. :
FERMI 19
Ruined city in Nile delta. :
TANIS 20
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Frame for canvas. :
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Plovers with slow, irregular flight. :
LAPWINGS 43
City on the Missouri. :
OMAHA 44
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Painter of "Flute Player." :
HALS 47
Gum-yielding tree. :
BABUL 48
Organic compound. :
AMINE 49
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Blizzard on Asiatic steppes. :
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Moslems living in Middle East. :
KURDS 58
English historian (1737–94). :
GIBBON 59
Province, its capital Changsha. :
HUNAN 62
Lower house of Oireachtas. :
DAIL 63
Russian novelist, Nobel Prize winner 1933. :
BUNIN 64
Chancellor of Austria. :
FIGL 66
River in Albania. :
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Of the soft palate. :
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Soviet committee. :
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Athenai is its capital. :
ELLAS 85
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In France, annual income. :
RENTE 87
American dogwood. :
OSIER 88
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Turkey's Foreign Minister. :
SAKA 93
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Swing about fixed point. :
SLUE 98
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Living model for Teddy bear. :
KOALA 102
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City in E. central Kansas. :
PAOLA 106
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Native of Russian chersonese. :
CRIMEAN 109
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President of Brazil. :
DUTRA 114
Strip of gear, as a ship. :
UNRIG 115
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Type of compound fruit: Bot. :
REGMA 117
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Lancer in Prussian armies. :
UHLAN 121
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Upper regions of space. :
ETHER 125
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Writer of story of Philip Nolan. :
HALE 128
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John Allan's protégé. :
POE 133
Presidential initial. :
ESS 135
Answer summary: 7 unique to this puzzle , 64 debuted here and reused later , 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles .
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