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New York Times, Saturday, May 2, 1953

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 302 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12, Grid flow: 24.0
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,413
Across
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A dean of French letters. : GIDE
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Blue flag. : IRIS
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Lost sheep. : WAIFS
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Items of native folklore. : AMERICANA
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Broad neck scarf. : ASCOT
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Picture in which Claire Bloom co-starred. : LIMELIGHT
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A Marx brother. : CHICO
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Hold faithfully to a promise or a bargain. : STICK
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Aggressive litigants. : SUERS
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Horse of indifferent spirit. : NAG
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Expression of roses. : ATTAR
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___ culpa. : MEA
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More duckling than swan. : UGLY
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Actress Hagen and others. : UTAS
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Israeli fruit crop. : ORANGES
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Wrong: Prefix. : MIS
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Actress Davis. : JOAN
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Work vengeance. : WREAK
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Payment draft. : POSTOFFICEORDER
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A middle name on paper money. : NEESE
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Where drives are made. : TEES
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Change of color. : DYE
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Weepy looking. : REDEYED
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Backdrop for Chamonix. : ALPS
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Consider. : DEEM
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Hood's weapon. : GAT
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Important commodity in the Schuman Plan. : STEEL
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King: Latin. : REX
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Make stupid or foolish. : BESOT
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Biblical name. : ORPAH
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First name of a literate clarinetist. : ARTIE
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Soften: Rare. : EMOLLIATE
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The chicken or the egg? : FIRST
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Pelts with stones. : LAPIDATES
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Nines and elevens. : TEAMS
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Cut. : SNIP
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Minus. : LESS
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Dolls. : GALS
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Not the real McCoy. : IMITATION
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Menu item. : DEMITASSE
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Constructs. : ERECTS
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Here: French. : ICI
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Costume for Imogene the "tramp." : RAGS
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This "makes countless thousands mourn": Burns. : INHUMANITYTOMAN
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Material. : SATEEN
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Girls in uniform. : WACS
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Tree of the olive family. : ASH
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Pastry chef's specialty. : ICING
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Converging on one point. : FOCAL
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That good 5-cent cigar. : STOGY
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Authoress Chase. : ILKA
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These make thousands sneeze. : RAGWEEDS
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Place for a gutter. : ROOFEDGE
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Service customer. : USER
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Masked man of decision. : UMP
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The wings of Britain. : RAF
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Dart-game player. : EROS
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Ferrer of "Moulin Rouge." : JOSE
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Fathead. : ADDLEPATE
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Stove-top parts: 2 wds. : KEYPLATES
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Phrase. : TERM
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Piano key. : CEE
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In medias ___. : RES
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Art tripods. : EASELS
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TV accessory. : AERIAL
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Call to arms (that cannot be denied). : DRAFT
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Inspiring gooseflesh. : EERIE
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Special edition. : EXTRA
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Took effect. : TOLD
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Invests in equine dispatch. : BETS
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Sun helmet. : TOPI
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Adolf's Rudolf. : HESS
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Doctrine. : ISM
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Epithet for Durocher. : LIP

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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