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New York Times, Monday, September 30, 1957

59-Across : Big name in tennis.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.68, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 3,016
Across
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Condensed. : SHORT
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Bird with a rapid, indistinct call. : CHAT
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___ Upsilon. : PSI
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Primitive dwelling. : TEPEE
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Big name in tennis. : LEWISHOAD
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Mountain nymph. : OREAD
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Well-known college. : ELECTORAL
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She sings Linda, Lakmé, etc. : PONS
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Engineering project. : DAM
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Corundum. : EMERY
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Rise above the usual level. : SOAR
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Innocent one. : BABE
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Designating. : NAMING
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Excited. : FEVERISH
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Picture. : IMAGE
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Provide food. : CATER
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Born. : NEE
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Diving bird. : LOON
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Revolving cylinder. : ROTOR
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Relative of magma. : LAVA
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Pronoun. : OUR
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Vast region of Africa. : SUDAN
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Brought into conformity (with "up"). : LINED
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Court. : TRIBUNAL
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Vegetable. : CELERY
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Entomologist's subject. : ANTS
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Fight. : DUEL
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Lawn. : SWARD
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Poetic verb form. : ART
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Asiatic country: Var. : IRAK
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Debt. : ARREARAGE
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___ Islands, the Moluccas. : SPICE
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Big name in tennis. : VICSEIXAS
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Eccentric. : OUTRE
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Old verb ending. : ETH
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Forward. : PERT
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Umpteen. : STEEN
Down
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Set of organ pipes. : STOP
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Protagonist. : HERO
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Begin. : OPEN
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Transfer again. : REASSIGN
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Spread hay. : TED
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Weather forecast. : CLEAR
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Place of control. : HELM
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Deep feeling. : AWE
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Neural symptom. : TIC
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Small opening. : PORE
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Moselle tributary. : SAAR
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In a useless way. : IDLY
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She sings Mimi, Marguerite, etc. : STEBER
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Former opera singer. : HOMER
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U. N. name. : DAG
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Number. : ONE
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Make a wager. : BETON
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Affirm. : AVER
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Egyptian. : NILOT
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Romantic affair. : AMOUR
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Polynesian language of N. Z. : MAORI
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Decisive. : FATAL
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Senseless. : INANE
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Divide. : SEVER
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Impetuous. : HEADY
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Musical passages. : CODAS
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Dwarfish animal. : RUNT
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Land of six-inch people. : LILLIPUT
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Fountain specialty. : SUNDAE
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Gettysburg participant. : LEE
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Uncovers. : BARES
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Stay away from (a class). : CUT
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Garbed. : DREST
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But. : SAVE
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Legal document. : WRIT
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Roguish. : ARCH
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Culture medium. : AGAR
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Ceremony. : RITE
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Crusaders' headquarters. : ACRE
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Very perceptive. : KEEN
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___ cord. : RIP
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Tomahawk. : AXE
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Signal. : SOS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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