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New York Times, Friday, September 12, 1952

58-Across : Short-billed rail.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.71, Missing: { F J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 110, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 14
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 1,181
Across
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Economical. : SPARESOME
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August. : MONTH
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Table-lifting medium. : LEVITATOR
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Armadillo. : APARA
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Carpet woven in Turkey. : ANATOLIAN
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Composer of "The Rosary." : NEVIN
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Sesame. : TIL
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Main Street glamor. : NEONS
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Starter for a Model T. : CRANK
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Greek letters. : ETAS
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Approximate course from New York to Bermuda. : SSE
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Drags, as into court. : HALES
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Forty-day periods. : LENTS
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Actor Foy Jr. : EDDIE
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Cage, as fowl. : ENCOOP
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Not keen edged. : UNSHARP
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Schoolboy. : SCHOLAR
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Chanter. : INTONER
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Exudation. : SEEPAGE
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Jew or Arab. : SEMITE
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Ty and Irvin S. : COBBS
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Forgive. : REMIT
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Actor's spoken thought. : ASIDE
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Common Latin abbreviation. : ETC
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Cape of Newfoundland. : RACE
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Strike the guitar. : STRUM
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Opera house at Milan (with "La"). : SCALA
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Yards to make a first down. : TEN
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Short-billed rail. : CRAKE
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The fair sex. : WOMANKIND
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Describing the old bucket. : OAKEN
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Audacity. : IMPUDENCE
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Dickens character. : TWIST
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Mercury or Iris. : MESSENGER
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Lacking a list of candidates. : SLATELESS
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Contrition. : PENITENCE
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Hazard to mountain climbers. : AVALANCHE
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Direction in music. : RIT
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Rival of Harrow. : ETON
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They're taxed in New York City. : SALES
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Useless; futile. : OTIOSE
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Uttered sounds of grief. : MOANED
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White-tailed ocean birds. : ERNS
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Largest city in New Hampshire. : MANCHESTER
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"Cosi Fan Tutte," for instance. : OPERA
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Having to do with Lynde D. McCormick's job. : NAVAL
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Three-toned chord. : TRINE
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Abe Lincoln's mother, Nancy ___. : HANKS
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Entrance to a brownstone front. : STOOP
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Comfort to one in grief. : SOLACEMENT
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Duets, musically speaking. : DUI
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Summer stopovers. : INNS
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Short for a naval station in American Samoa. : PAGO
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Senator Capehart. : HOMER
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Moving to action. : ANIMATING
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Restraint in speaking. : RETICENCE
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Status of Charley's aunt. : PRETENDER
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Morgan the raider. : REB
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Be suitable to. : BECOME
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Farouk's $16,800,000 collection. : STAMPS
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English racecourse. : ASCOT
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Kind of vote. : STRAW
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King Faisal's people: Var. : IRAKI
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York, Kent, Windsor. : DUKES
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Salvation Army's Xmas aide. : CLAUS
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Coney Island refresher. : SWIM
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Peruvian Indian. : ANDE
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Tennis player McGregor. : KEN

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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