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New York Times, Tuesday, March 13, 1951

15-Across : Spring flowers.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 249 (avg 1.31)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12
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© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 632
Across
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Price stabilizer. : DISALLE
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Greetings or farewell, in Oahu. : ALOHA
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Chancellor of Western Germany. : ADENAUER
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Spring flowers. : LILACS
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The army. : MILITARY
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Spain and Portugal. : IBERIA
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Coin of Peru. : SOL
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Tricky: Slang. : SNIDE
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More unusual. : RARER
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Plant modified by environment. : ECAD
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Racehorse: Colloq. : GEEGEE
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New York subway. : IRT
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Instruments, of the harp class. : LYRES
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Baseball's Mr. Northey. : RON
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General Bradley. : OMAR
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Honk. : TOOT
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Repeat. : ITERATE
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Polite way of saying "If you are willing." : PLEASE
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Unruffled. : SERENE
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Native of Anchorage. : ALASKAN
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A branch of math. : TRIG
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Relax. : REST
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Revolver: Slang. : GAT
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Notching machine. : COPER
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Hebrew letter. : TAV
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Imprison again. : RECAGE
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Number of Supreme Court justices. : NINE
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French river, from the Alps to the Rhone. : ISERE
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Mr. Zola. : EMILE
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Sea bird. : ERN
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Exaggeratedly sweet. : SUGARY
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John A. Costello, for instance. : IRISHMAN
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Arranged on a salver. : TRAYED
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First known period of human culture. : STONEAGE
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Letters of the alphabet. : ESSES
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More severe. : STERNER
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Maiden. : DAMSEL
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Senseless folly. : IDIOCY
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Auditor General of Canada. : SELLAR
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Cuckoo. : ANI
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Buddhist pillars. : LATS
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___ Prabang, state in Indo-China. : LUANG
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Spectral. : EERIE
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Mr. Baba. : ALI
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Cuba ___: rum and kola. : LIBRE
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Genus of olives. : OLEA
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A Truman foreign policy adviser. : HARRIMAN
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Convert into steel. : ACIERATE
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___ Cup: a golf trophy. : RYDER
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Existentialist author of "Troubled Sleep." : SARTRE
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Selfish person. : EGOIST
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Abominate. : DETEST
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Come on stage. : ENTER
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Don Marquis' "Old ___." : SOAK
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Senator Morse's state. : OREGON
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Sioux Indian. : OSAGE
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Bridge holding. : TENACE
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___ Blore, actor. : ERIC
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Satisfaction. : PLEASURE
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City that heard recent atomic tests. : LASVEGAS
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John Marin, for instance. : ARTIST
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Woolen strainer. : TAMIS
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Nursery rhyme character. : PIEMAN
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Anger. : ENRAGE
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Recently deceased President of Austria. : RENNER
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Cattail. : REREE
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Encircles. : GIRTS
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Nobel Prize poet. : ELIOT
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Sunbeams. : RAYS
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Former slave. : ESNE
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Measures: Abbr. : YDS
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That girl. : HER

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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