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New York Times, Saturday, May 5, 1951

40-Down : He wrote "The Fairie Queene."

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 25, Avg Word Len: 5.88, Missing: { J K Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 94, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 19, Grid flow: 118.3 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
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© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 685
Across
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Aviators wear them. : GOGGLES
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Barbarian. : SAVAGE
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Just so-so. : AVERAGE
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Deserved praise. : TRIBUTE
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He represents Michigan in Washington's Upper House. : SENATORFERGUSON
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Allowances for waste. : TRETS
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Sicilian secret society. : MAFIA
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Twitch. : TIC
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Like a day in June. : RARE
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Devours ravenously. : WOLFS
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Argentine timber tree. : TALA
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Eskimo. : ITA
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Taut. : TENSE
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Floors with brick, stone, etc. : PAVES
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Baritones of the violin family. : CELLOS
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Native of Viet Nam. : ANNAMESE
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Dug coal. : MINED
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Fine line of type. : SERIF
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Adorned with glittering objects. : SPANGLED
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Suburban homes. : VILLAS
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Is solicitous. : CARES
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___ and penates. : LARES
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Matterhorn. : ALP
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Formerly. : ERST
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Crowbar. : LEVER
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Oriental musical instrument. : LUTE
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Opposite of yeah. : NAH
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The theatre, in "Broadwayese." : LEGIT
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Live: German. : LEBEN
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Creative thought. : IMAGINATIVENESS
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Guilty individual. : CULPRIT
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Part of a gearshift. : REVERSE
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Famous square in London. : SLOANE
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One who barely ekes out a living. : EXISTER
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Pertaining to the stomach. : GASTRIC
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Consumed too many calories. : OVERATE
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"Architect of Victory": World War II. : GENERALMARSHALL
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Place to build a fire. : GRATE
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Coins of Riga. : LATS
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Part of the psyche. : EGO
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___ on the Mount. : SERMON
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Author and journalist; one of the "muckrackers." : STEFFENS
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Sharp ridge, as between adjoining channels of a Doric column. : ARRIS
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Heavy rafter used in Spanish colonial architecture. : VIGA
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Arabic name. : ABU
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He wrote "Madame Bovary." : GUSTAVEFLAUBERT
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Stars: French. : ETOILES
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Cover solidly. : ENCASE
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False: Latin. : FALSA
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Manufacturing city in the Rhineland. : WESEL
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Hindu of southern India. : TAMIL
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Chinese secret societies. : TONGS
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SHAPE's H.Q. : PARIS
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Heroine, in Arthurian legend. : LINET
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When the twain shall meet. : NEVER
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Member of a political convention. : DELEGATE
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___ railway. : SCENIC
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New Jersey town, north of Passaic. : PARAMUS
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Ship's crane. : DAVIT
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Highness, as a French title of nobility. : ALTESSE
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He wrote "The Fairie Queene." : SPENSER
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Quit active service. : RETIRE
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Vladimir Ilich Ulianov. : LENIN
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Unaspirated consonants. : LENES
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Italian money. : LIRA
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Son of Jacob. : LEVI
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Where Postmaster Goldman works. : GPO
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Irritate. : VEX

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 15 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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