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GLOBAL GLEANINGS

New York Times, Sunday, May 25, 1952

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 166, Blocks: 74, Avg Word Len: 5.48, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 676 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 158, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 42
Jack Luzzatto has 292 pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 1,071
Across
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Informant. : TIPSTER
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Night's brightest luminary besides the moon. : DOGSTAR
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Stalin's Deputy Premier. : MOLOTOV
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Loving. : AMATIVE
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A part typical of a large and intricate whole. : EPITOME
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The rage of Midas. : AVARICE
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Enroll, as a jury. : IMPANEL
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An American red grape. : CATAWBA
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Minton, Clark, Burton et al. : NINEMEN
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Gas lights of modern times. : NEONS
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Dark doings. : EVIL
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Siamese. : TAI
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A kind of sight. : HIND
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Not valid. : BAD
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Paced. : TROD
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A spurner of his peers. : SNOB
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Casement opening on the foam. : PORTHOLE
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Poetry for gourmets. : MENU
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Letter. : ESS
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Professions. : METIERS
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County seat in S. E. Kansas. : IOLA
43
Famous name in physics. : CURIE
44
Intensify. : DEEPEN
46
Night club gold mine. : CLOAKROOM
49
Logs for building Kon-Tiki. : BALSAS
50
Open-eyed. : AWARE
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Easily bent. : PLIANT
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Never-say-die. : GAME
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Crackling repartee. : RIPOSTE
57
Luther's works. : HYMNS
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Marsh rail: Var. : SOREE
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Training school for officers: Abbr. : OCS
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Word used by the devout. : AMEN
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Greek theatres. : ODEA
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Mined from the mind. : IDEA
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Cowpuncher or sheep tender. : HERDSMAN
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Decaliter: Ab. : DAL
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Insufferably superior. : PRIGGISH
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Korean leader. : RHEE
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Tender a view. : OPINE
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Nanook's home. : IGLOO
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Revoke an order. : COUNTERMAND
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Harpsichordist Landowska. : WANDA
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Sky: Span. : CIELO
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Track holders. : TIES
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Citizen under Leopold Figl. : AUSTRIAN
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Type of leaf cluster. : OAK
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Girls named after Pip's sweetheart. : ESTELLAS
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Four years. : TERM
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Reconnaissance scouts. : EYES
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Magazine man. : LUCE
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Officers: Abbr. : LTS
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Small, mean and treacherous. : RATTY
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Dignified. : STAID
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Wedded, in the old days. : SPOUSED
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Bruised in spirit. : SORE
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Mount. : ASCEND
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Goad into action. : STING
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Parts of long poems. : CANTOS
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Relative of the peba. : ARMADILLO
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Pattern on a TV screen. : RASTER
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Ill-repute. : ODIUM
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It's wingless and leaping. : FLEA
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Nautical agreements. : AYEAYES
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Scottish verb. : HAE
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Famous name in architecture. : ADAM
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Printer. : PRESSMAN
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Reuner. : GRAD
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Yankee outfielder. : CERV
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Toby. : MUG
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Tennis player Herb ___. : FLAM
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Garment edge. : HEM
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She wrote love tales. : GLYN
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Jackson's Sec'y. of Treasury. : DUANE
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Winging vainly sunward. : ICARIAN
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Too loud for an aside. : AUDIBLE
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Harvester device. : KNOTTER
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Profligate, as Caesars. : NERONIC
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Study by Darwin. : SPECIES
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Presenting no problems. : EASIEST
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Altar shelf: Ital. : GRADINO
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Sets apart. : ASSIGNS
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Nefud and Negeb. : DESERTS
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Somewhat corrupt. : TAINTED
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Dip. : IMMERSE
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Nokomis's baby. : PAPOOSE
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A firm position. : STAND
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Cans. : TINS
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Biblical character. : EVE
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Soften. : RELENT
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Measure of sound. : DECIBEL
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Jewel. : OPAL
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Depart, country style. : GIT
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State: Comb. form. : STATO
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"Marching as ___ . . . " : TOWAR
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The goad to power. : AMBITION
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Rural power agency. : REA
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Former capital of Philippines. : MANILA
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Sheeplike. : OVINE
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Word that electrified Columbus. : LAND
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Where Crater Lake is: Abbr. : ORE
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Growing trees. : TIMBERS
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The isles of the Pacific. : OCEANIA
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Public sales. : VENDUES
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The ___ of America. : VOICE
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Actress Celeste. : HOLM
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Fred Seaton, for instance. : SENATOR
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Asaph, for instance. : PSALMIST
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Jeers from the jaded. : HOOTS
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Beast. : MULE
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Stables around a court. : MEWS
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Tending to form in strings. : ROPY
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Finished like a rocket. : CAMEDOWN
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Peacock blue. : PAON
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Of tender mercies. : KINDHEARTED
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Level. : RASE
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Max or Buddy. : BAER
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Speak to the steno again. : REDICTATE
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Most shamelessly grasping. : GREEDIEST
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Rootlet. : RADICEL
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Poet like Amy Lowell. : IMAGIST
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Balls of dough. : PELLETS
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Queen Juliana's city. : HAGUE
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Scheherazade of Baghdad-on-the-Subway. : OHENRY
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Threatening. : OMINOUS
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Biblical queen. : CANDACE
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Slunk. : SNEAKED
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An advocate of the self. : EGOIST
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BARs, Garands, etc. : ARMS
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Hot Springs. : SPA
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Where a game is played. : POOLROOM
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This month: Abbr. : INST
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Found unpalatable. : HATED
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Cheer for a matador. : OLE
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Citizen under Dr. Groza. : RUMANIAN
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Hoped for glory. : ASPIRED
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Norwegian man's name. : LARS
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Plant modified by environment. : ESCA
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Flanges. : LUGS
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Years: Dial. : YARES
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Without aim. : IDLY
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Miss Munson and others. : ONAS
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Revive wine's ferment. : STUM
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One-way trips. : SMASHUPS
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High-flown: Poet. : SOARY
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Raised frame around a hatchway. : COAMING
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Alleger. : ADDUCER
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A lot of water. : NIAGARA
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Ottoman flag. : ALEM
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Unsupported, as an apod. : LEGLESS
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Ferrer's forte. : THEATER
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Sincere. : EARNEST
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Goes back to. : REVERTS
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Dictator next door to Salazar. : FRANCO
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Jerked. : YANKED
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Downright. : PLAIN
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Neighbors of the Persians. : MEDES
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Friends: Ital. : AMICI
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Slangy pet name. : CUTIE
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Ended: French. : FINI
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Mountain valley. : GLEN
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Flophouse, in Britain. : DOSS
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Vacation equipment. : ROD
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Al Jolson's given name. : ASA
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Generous. : BIG
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Scottish no. : NAE

Answer summary: 7 unique to this puzzle, 35 debuted here and reused later, 12 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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