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New York Times, Tuesday, January 1, 1952

8-Down : Loses elasticity.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 14
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 926
Across
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Convey as if in flight. : WAFT
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Product of California. : FIGS
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Painter Picasso. : PABLO
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Oriental nurse. : AMAH
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Brain reaction. : IDEA
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City near Marseilles. : ARLES
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Churchill's present address. : IODOWNINGSTREET
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Musician's way of expressing emotion. : TREMOLO
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He composed the "Emperor Waltz." : STRAUSS
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Mistral, Eliot, and others. : POETS
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German "a." : EIN
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Joe Walcott's appellation. : JERSEY
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Coming event casting many shadows. : ELECTION
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Really detest. : ABHOR
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Relinquish, as a legal right. : WAIVE
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Famous stage blonde. : MAE
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Element in the atmosphere. : NEON
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He-man of the movies. : GABLE
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Deliver. : MAKE
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Vessel for liquids. : URN
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___ Island. : CONEY
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Kept in confinement. : CAGED
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Resembling a star. : STELLATE
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Numskulls. : MORONS
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Dine. : EAT
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La ___ of Milan. : SCALA
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One to whom property is transferred. : ALIENEE
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Several Dickens heroines. : LITTLES
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First citizen of Leesburg. : GEORGECMARSHALL
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Daddy Warbucks' girl. : ANNIE
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England's Leslie ___-Belisha. : HORE
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Where live the Sooners: Abbr. : OKLA
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Bucephalus was one. : STEED
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Is obligated to. : OWES
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Opposed to highest tide. : NEAP
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Short delay. : WAIT
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Roman Cupid. : AMOR
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"They just ___ away." : FADE
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Famous American journalist. : THOMPSON
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She wrote the "Elsie Books." : FINLEY
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A Dostoevski character. : IDIOT
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Title of 56 Across. : GEN
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Loses elasticity. : SAGS
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Miss Munsel of the Met. : PATRICE
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Out-and-out. : ARRANT
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Cordon ___, a first-rate cook. : BLEU
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Light-Horse Harry and Richard Henry. : LEES
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Kilns: Var. : OSTS
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Leander was one. : WOOER
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Load, as cargo. : STEEVE
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Members of naval construction battalions. : SEABEES
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Two-faced Roman god. : JANUS
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First President of Germany. : EBERT
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504-mile French river. : RHONE
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Wife of radio's "The Great Montague." : LILY
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Certain stage of an insect. : IMAGO
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Like the moss-covered bucket. : OAKEN
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Of necessity. : NEEDS
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Desideratum. : WANT
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Kind of trimmed beard. : GOATEE
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An Olympic event. : MARATHON
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Reverberated. : CLANGED
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Bluegrass frolickers. : COLTS
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The "lamplighter" of Stevenson's poem. : LEERIE
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French civil officers. : MAIRES
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County in the province of Munster. : CLARE
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Turkish officers. : AGAS
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What Ash Wednesday heralds. : LENT
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Nydia's rivals. : IONE
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Nymph who pined away for love. : ECHO
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Success is one. : LAKE
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Miss Fitzgerald. : ELLA
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Rebuff. : SLAP
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Storage place in a barn. : MOW

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 13 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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