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New York Times, Tuesday, May 6, 1952

16-Across : Cole Porter girl and title.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 29, Avg Word Len: 5.60, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 20
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 1,052
Across
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Moroccan. : MOORISH
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Mail-order houses. : PREFABS
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Keeping proper musical pace: 2 wds. : INTEMPO
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Cole Porter girl and title. : ROSALIE
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Utensil for goulash. : STEWPOT
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Embark for the sky. : EMPLANE
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No great shakes. : SOSO
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Haven for Laughing Boy. : TEPEE
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Pride of the chilopod. : LEGS
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College town near Philadelphia. : VILLANOVA
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Highway perils. : SPEEDERS
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Duelist's aide. : SECOND
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Where nearly 70% of our iron ore comes from. : MINNESOTA
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Where Aleppo is. : SYRIA
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Diminutive suffix. : ULA
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Volcano peak in Kyushu, with largest crater in the world. : ASO
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Bottle opener. : SOT
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Where to "beard the lion." : DEN
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Emblem of a Chippewa clan. : TOTEM
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Send on a wild-goose chase. : MISDIRECT
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Like a pillar. : STELAR
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Flaked fish cooked with rice and eggs. : KEDGEREE
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Not turned aside. : UNAVERTED
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Teeth of a trap. : JAWS
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Italian composer noted for a "Good-bye." : TOSTI
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Domesticated. : TAME
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Museum specialty. : EXHIBIT
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Beautiful antelopes of Africa. : IMPALAS
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Improve the tone. : ELEVATE
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Evensong. : VESPERS
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Dwindled (with "out"). : PETERED
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The heart of the matter. : ESSENCE
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Proposal maker in leap year. : MISS
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Upon. : ONTO
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Natives of: Suffix. : OTES
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Invisibly mended. : REWOVEN
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Urchin. : IMP
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Free from blemish. : SPOTLESS
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Where to hold a convention. : HOTELROOM
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Dress very carefully. : PREEN
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Men named after a Montague. : ROMEOS
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Dr. Rhine's "extrasensory perception" experiments at Duke U. : ESP
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An illogical notion. : FALLACY
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Wings: Anat. : ALAE
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Met director. : BING
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Grasps. : SEES
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The irretrievable time. : PAST
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Crutch for a cartoonist: 2 wds. : IDEAMAN
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Trace. : VESTIGE
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South Africa's great man. : SMUTS
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The man behind plexiglass. : PILOT
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Related on the mother's side. : ENATE
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Proper or unsatisfactory condition. : ORDER
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Close relative. : NIECE
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Poet who loved Beatrice Portinari. : DANTE
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Dogmatic. : ASSERTIVE
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Irregular hours: 2 wds. : ODDTIMES
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Slippery as an eel. : ELUSIVE
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Whose last name means "blacksmith"? : IKES
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Washington tanglefoot. : REDTAPE
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Bird with a flat breastbone, as an emu or ostrich. : RATITE
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Performed on primary day. : VOTED
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Army ground negotiator. : JEEP
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Wheel support. : AXLE
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Put an edge on. : WHET
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Two feet seven in Denmark and Norway. : ALEN
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Painter Chagall. : MARC
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To be: Latin. : ESSE
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Lawyer's domain. : BAR
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Afterthoughts in a letter. : PSS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 18 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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