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New York Times, Tuesday, May 22, 1951

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.70, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 20.5 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
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© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 702
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Title for a Hindu religious teacher. : SWAMI
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Desert water course. : WADI
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Social occasion, usually with seafood. : BAKE
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President seeking Vice Presidency for wife. : PERON
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Repute. : ODOR
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Sicilian spouter. : ETNA
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Topless-towered Troy. : ILION
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Commander of Rainbow Division, World War I. : MACARTHUR
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Double curve. : ESS
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Impediment. : SNAG
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Comforters. : QUILTS
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Frank "Spec" ___, Yankee pitcher. : SHEA
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Amazon cetacean. : INIA
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Britain's Home Secretary. : EDE
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Poll-box fillers. : BALLOTS
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Make copper-plate art. : ETCH
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Neat hair-do. : PAGEBOY
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Trouble. : AIL
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Debt chit. : IOU
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Ornamental hole. : EYELET
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___ Shoals. : MUSCLE
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Governor of Kansas. : ARN
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Useful idea. : TIP
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Non-filterable agencies of infection. : VIRUSES
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Great Barrier of Australia. : REEF
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Rode by dromedary. : CAMELED
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The least bit. : RAP
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3000 mile river in Siberia. : LENA
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Scissors onomatopoeia. : SNIP
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Divided. : SHARED
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Topsoil. : DIRT
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Black cuckoo. : ANI
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Scandalously famous. : NOTORIOUS
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Oriental. : ASIAN
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Character in the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments." : ABOU
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El ___, Texas. : PASO
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Send free of charge, as mail. : FRANK
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Money for political patronage. : PORK
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Mr. Musial. : STAN
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High waters. : TIDES
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Fuchs, Gold, etc. : SPIES
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Lloyd George's origin. : WELSH
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Get up. : ARISE
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Low note. : MOO
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Vacation spots. : INNS
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Graciously feminine. : WOMANLY
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Slow movement in music. : ADAGIO
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Familiar address to a family friend. : DOC
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Where the Tigris flows. : IRAQ
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Befall. : BETIDE
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Jimmy Dykes manages them. : ATHLETICS
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Nobel-winner Hamsun. : KNUT
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Corn flowers. : EARS
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Street, in France. : RUE
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Relating to Egypt's river. : NILOTIC
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Child of Adam. : ABEL
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Alma ___, capital of Kazak Republic. : ATA
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Aid. : ABET
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Alike. : SIMILAR
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Mr. Porter. : COLE
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Tints. : HUES
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Alligator ___. : PEAR
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Northern point on Isle of Man. : AYRE
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Dynamo. : GENERATOR
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Bait. : LURE
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Monday bubbles. : SUDS
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Best friend. : PAL
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Meat popular in Britain. : VENISON
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Narriman's groom. : FAROUK
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Lady with a strange hair-do. : MEDUSA
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For each. : PER
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Fresh-water nymph. : NAIAD
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Pointless. : INANE
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Officer's dress trousers. : PINKS
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Sinecure. : SNAP
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Wandering worker. : HOBO
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Short swims. : DIPS
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Co-author with Hartley. : TAFT
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Species of grass. : OAT
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Hindu title of respect, used by Nehru. : SRI

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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