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New York Times, Monday, May 3, 1954

20-Across : Rockfish.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 14
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,770
Across
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___ d'art. : OBJET
6
Misses Murray and West. : MAES
10
Southwest Africa. : SWA
13
Dylan Thomas records. : POEMS
14
Subject for the Geneva Conference. : INDOCHINA
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Lower. : ABASE
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She won an Oscar. : DONNAREED
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Actor Chaney. : LON
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Rockfish. : REINA
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Diminutive of Helen. : NELLA
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Card game of Spanish origin. : OMBER
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Began to grow. : BUDDED
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Blue: Ger. : BLAU
27
Declare. : ASSERT
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Without any changes: Business phrase. : ASIS
32
Supplied goods, as in 1941. : LENDLEASED
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Companions of neithers. : NORS
38
Two-wheeled carriage. : GIG
39
Gibson's middle name. : DANA
40
Armor for men or ships. : KNEEPLATES
44
Do they justify means? : ENDS
45
Texas border city. : LAREDO
46
Greenland base. : ETAH
47
Rose and vanished. : LIFTED
51
Alexandre, père ou fils. : DUMAS
53
Of the Far East. : ASIAN
54
Submarine. : UBOAT
57
Southern tuber. : YAM
59
Britain's Chancellor of Exchequer. : RABBUTLER
61
Where James Bowie died. : ALAMO
63
Chairman in the headlines. : KARLMUNDT
64
Chinese province. : HONAN
65
Letter. : CEE
66
Angler's prize. : BASS
67
Pretentious: Slang. : SWANK
Down
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Gem of many colors. : OPAL
2
He turned back Kid Gavilan. : BOBOOLSON
3
French dancer on Broadway. : JEANMAIRE
4
German river. : EMS
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Hebrew vowel point: Var. : TSERE
6
The south of France. : MIDI
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Presently. : ANON
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Actress Best. : EDNA
9
Young man. : SON
10
Particle. : SHRED
11
Exercise, as power. : WIELD
12
Anoint: Obs. : ANELE
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Ruler of three kingdoms, but not the waves. : CANUTE
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Babylonian god of the wind. : ADAD
21
Of a historical period. : ERAL
24
He blows a muted trumpet. : BUSSE
25
Barrel: Abbr. : BRL
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A heap of clouds. : BANK
28
Product of Tampa: Var. : SEGAR
29
Snuff: Scot. : SNITE
30
Sharpened. : EDGED
33
Revoke legally. : ADEEM
34
Author of "The Last Puritan." : SANTAYANA
35
Book and play about military school. : ENDASAMAN
36
Spirited quality. : DASH
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Opposite of vacuum. : PLENUM
42
Stripling. : LAD
43
Baking ___. : SODA
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Songbird. : LARK
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Character in "Ivanhoe." : ISAAC
49
Thread. : FIBRE
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Place to eat. : TABLE
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Enemies of the Pueblo Indians. : UTAHS
54
Bone. : ULNA
55
Strata. : BEDS
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Scraps of food. : ORTS
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Recluse. : MONK
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"Three men in a ___." : TUB
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Softly. : LOW

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 8 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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