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New York Times, Wednesday, November 7, 1951

52-Across : Schools used to grade pupils in this.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
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© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 871
Across
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Where Smith College is: Colloq. : HAMP
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Muscle or sinew. : THEW
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Seaport of French West Africa. : DAKAR
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Tahiti novel by Melville. : OMOO
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Desdemona's enemy. : IAGO
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Exhibit imitation feelings. : EMOTE
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Richard or Butterfly. : POOR
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Certain ships or planes. : TRANSPORTS
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Established. : INSTATED
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Reads with steady attention. : PORES
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___ cars. : USED
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Heroine of "The Last of the Mohicans." : CORA
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Sponger. : CADGER
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Well-known first name in radio. : PORTLAND
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Pas-de-Calais city. : ARRAS
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Loses freshness. : WILTS
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Girl's name. : PIA
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Disturb. : ROIL
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Port from which Columbus sailed. : PALOS
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Appear indistinctly. : LOOM
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Where a Cockney lives. : OME
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Special taste or quality. : SAVOR
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A great Anna Karenina. : GARBO
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King's daughter. : MARGARET
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Wooden shoe worn to raise the feet from the mud. : PATTEN
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Nous sommes, vous ___. : ETES
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Let George ___. : DOIT
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City on the Po. : TURIN
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Old-fashioned substitute for a door. : PORTIERE
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Schools used to grade pupils in this. : DEPORTMENT
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Lump of earth. : CLOD
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Expiate. : ATONE
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Yard attached to a house. : AREA
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Instead. : ELSE
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Surface depressions. : DENTS
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Feature of Stevenson's "Master of Ballantrae." : DUEL
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Mr. O'Kelly. : SEAN
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Pueblo tribe of Indians. : HOPI
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Theban god. : AMON
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Lows. : MOOS
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Where Oporto is. : PORTUGAL
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Giggle. : TITTER
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Ran fast. : HARED
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Old time oath. : EGAD
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Earned. : WON
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Sends into exile. : DEPORTS
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Without a sense of ethical responsibility. : AMORAL
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Another name for Persephone. : KORE
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Lawyers: Abbr. : ATTS
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___ gestae (things done): Latin. : RES
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John Kieran's specialty. : SPORTS
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"___ Death," by Grieg. : ASES
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Pigment. : COLOR
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Strike and rebound. : CAROM
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Spicy smell. : AROMA
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Beauty parlor gadget. : DRIER
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Operator of a Shooting Star. : PILOT
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On the nautical left. : APORT
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Zeus turned her into stone. : NIOBE
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Mr. Runyon. : DAMON
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Members of the Navy. : WAVES
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Ancestor, in civil law. : PARENT
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Windows with crossed strips. : LATTICES
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Burlesques of human follies. : SATIRES
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Walk or single-foot. : GAIT
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Old man: Comb. form. : GERONT
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Way into the Yale Bowl. : PORTAL
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Receiver of a gift. : DONEE
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Head: French. : TETE
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In an elevated position. : UPON
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Its chief port is Callao. : PERU
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French pronoun. : ELLE
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Pasquale's daughter. : ROSA
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Britain's new Foreign Secretary. : EDEN
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Head of the house. : DAD
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Foolish. : MAD

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1 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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