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New York Times, Tuesday, September 4, 1973

52-Down : River of Sumatra

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 255 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
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© 1973, The New York TimesNo. 8,788
Across
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Painting and sculpture : ARTS
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Singing family : TRAPP
10
Charity : ALMS
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Turkish pound : LIRA
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Rage: Sp. : RABIA
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British prison : GAOL
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Short paragraph : ITEM
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Concerning : ANENT
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Miss Foch : NINA
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Iced and pink : TEAS
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Lincoln Center unit : MET
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Scooped out : ROUTED
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Galsworthy's man of property : SOAMESFORSYTE
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Go for broke : PLUNGE
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Burden : LOAD
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" ... ___ daily bread" : OUR
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Actress Skipworth : ALISON
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Mysterious place : EAST
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Common people : PLEBS
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Mind: Prefix : NOO
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Maxims : DICTA
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Lanchester : ELSA
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___ up (dress warmly) : BUNDLE
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Bottle part : CAP
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Young salmon : PARR
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Puts on notice : ALERTS
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Thomas Mann classic : DEATHINVENICE
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Form of bias : RACISM
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Can. province : ONT
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Sweetsop : ATES
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Cries of disgust : UGHS
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Thousand, in France : MILLE
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Lie at anchor : RIDE
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Harsh : GRIM
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Be, in Spain : ESTAR
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Outer garment : TOGA
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Bayh and Ervin: Abbr. : SENS
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Violinist's need : ROSIN
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Chemical suffixes : ENES
Down
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Came down : ALIT
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Ceremony : RITE
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Values : TREASURES
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Owner of a famous head of hair : SAMSON
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Three-layer fishnet : TRAMMEL
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Consort of a rajah : RANEE
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Supports : ABETS
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Golf target : PIN
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Colonial estate owner : PATROON
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Christian emblem : AGNUSDEI
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Ones outside a profession : LAITY
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French painter : MONET
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Sole of a plow : SLADE
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Mouths : ORA
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Turkish titles : AGAS
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Johnstown, for one : FLOOD
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English poet : POPE
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Slack period : LULL
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Entomb : INURN
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Family member : SON
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Process of growth : ACCRETION
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Suffix for thermo : STAT
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Bugle number : TAPS
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Christian rites : BAPTISMS
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Cold-cuts shop : DELI
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Wide straw hat : BRIMMER
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Accompaniment for Diogenes : LANTERN
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Exclamations : AHS
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Card game : ECARTE
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Pharmacy purchases : DRUGS
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Tidal flow : EAGRE
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River of Sumatra : ACHIN
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Electric units : VOLTS
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Chou ___ : ENLAI
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Brink : EDGE
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Waves : SEAS
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Prefix for tope : ISO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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