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New York Times, Saturday, May 4, 1957

33-Across : Moslem ruler.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q V W X Y }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
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© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 2,867
Across
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Sound of surprise. : GASP
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Please: Ger. : BITTE
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Haircuts. : BOBS
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Remote. : AFAR
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Common verbal contraction. : ARENT
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Where Indian Territory is: Abbr. : OKLA
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Algebraic short cut, invented by Newton. : BINOMIALTHEOREM
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Regulation. : STATUTE
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Fortune. : ESTATE
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Headland. : NESS
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Misleading. : FALSE
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Contest. : MATCH
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Sweet roll. : BUN
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Halt legally. : ESTOP
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"___ Plenty of Nuttin'." : IGOT
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Moslem ruler. : SULTAN
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___ pro nobis. : ORA
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John Masefield heroine. : NAN
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Actress Dietrich. : MARLENE
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Three: Prefix. : TRI
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502. : DII
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Certain farmer-vendors. : EGGMEN
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Facial feature. : CHIN
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Type of hair net. : SNOOD
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Directed. : LED
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Bureau. : CHEST
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2,600-mi. river of Africa. : NIGER
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Downtown Chicago. : LOOP
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Allay grief. : SOLACE
52
Type of pudding. : TAPIOCA
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Evolutionary book of 1859 (with "The"). : ORIGINOFSPECIES
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Stun. : DAZE
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One of the Howes. : ELIAS
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Limits. : ENDS
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Winged. : ALAR
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___ Haute, Ind. : TERRE
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Printing term. : STET
Down
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Talks much: Colloq. : GABS
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Have ___ (become very upset). : AFIT
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Texas's third largest city. : SANANTONIO
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Guard. : PROTECT
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Prepares the hook. : BAITS
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Dies ___. : IRAE
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End: Comb. form. : TEL
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Explosive. : TNT
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Mrs. Robert Six. : ETHEL
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Northern constellation. : BOOTES
11
Gumbo. : OKRA
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Decay in overripe fruit. : BLET
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Unchanged. : SAME
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Porridge. : MUSH
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Dweller near the caves of Qumran. : ESSENE
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Robinson's victim. : FULLMER
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Put in (one's stake). : ANTEED
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Intellects. : MINDS
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A second time. : AGAIN
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Commit theft: Colloq. : BURGLE
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Apt. : TOTHEPOINT
30
Iris plant. : ORRIS
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Lipstick. : PAINT
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Dip. : SAG
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Cape near Gloucester, Mass. : ANN
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Powerful family of the Renaissance. : MEDICI
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Alternates. : CHOICES
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Ancient catapult. : ONAGER
45
Vestment. : COPE
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Civetlike animal. : GENET
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Slip of the tongue. : LAPSE
49
Pop. : SODA
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Using speech. : ORAL
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W. S. Maugham heroine. : LIZA
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Ruler. : TSAR
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Give up. : CEDE
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Helper: Abbr. : ASST
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Scandinavian name. : OLE
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Douglas ___. : FIR

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

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