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New York Times, Tuesday, April 10, 1956

62-Across : American playwright.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { G Q V W Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
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© 1956, The New York TimesNo. 2,478
Across
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Stopping place. : MOTEL
6
Rebuff. : SLAP
10
Mrs. Roy Rogers. : DALE
14
Agreeable. : AMENE
15
Broadway mystery melodrama. : TIMELIMIT
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Card game. : MONTE
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Collector's items. : AMERICANA
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Top grade. : AONE
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Seeds. : PIPS
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Pens. : STIES
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Record. : ENTER
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___ by. : STAND
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Screen actor to play Moses. : HESTON
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Be proud of. : BOAST
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Attack. : ONSET
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Contemporary cartoonist. : CAPP
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Hero of Wild West days. : EARP
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"___ in the Sky." : PIE
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Carolyn Green's romantic comedy. : JANUS
37
Three-handed card game. : LOO
38
Same. : IDEM
40
Sea birds. : ERNS
41
Small, silvery sea fish. : SMELT
43
Copycats. : APERS
45
Beguiles. : COAXES
46
Fisherman. : EELER
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Alias Barney Greenwald. : FONDA
49
48 Across, for example. : ACTOR
50
Brewing ingredient. : MALT
52
Grafted: Her. : ENTE
55
Creator of "Pal Joey." : JOHNOHARA
57
___ one's time. : BIDED
58
Makes a foe of. : ALIENATES
59
Mountain nymph. : OREAD
60
Written statements: Abbr. : RECS
61
"___ Set." : DESK
62
American playwright. : BARRY
Down
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Family member. : MAMA
2
Melville's South Sea romance. : OMOO
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Mr. Williams. : TENNESSEE
4
Agreement. : ENTENTE
5
TV's Pinky. : LEE
6
Architectural item. : STAIR
7
Flaccid. : LIMP
8
Iowa college town. : AMES
9
Through. : PER
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Command expressly. : DICTATE
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Violently. : AMAIN
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Streaked. : LINED
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Greek letters. : ETAS
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Registers. : LISTS
20
International literary group. : PEN
23
Little one. : TOT
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Weakens. : SAPS
25
Indian. : HOPI
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Playwright Bagnold. : ENID
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Public notices. : BANNS
28
Symphony or sonata. : OPUS
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John Dickson ___, mystery writer. : CARR
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Actress Joan. : ALEXANDER
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Part. : ROLE
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Lobster ___. : POTS
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Show scorn. : JEER
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Western senator and family. : MALONES
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"Dombey and ___." : SON
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Where Funchal is. : MADEIRA
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Prominent has-been. : PERON
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Small house: Poet. : COT
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Saint-Cyr-l'___. : ECOLE
47
Of morality. : ETHIC
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Container. : FLASK
49
Not in harmony. : AJAR
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Defeat at chess. : MATE
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Bellicose deity. : ARES
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Move with speed. : TEAR
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Popular baritone. : EDDY
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Experienced. : HAD
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Ray's partner. : BOB

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

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