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New York Times, Friday, January 11, 1952

42-Down : Road machines.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 28, Avg Word Len: 5.63, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 88, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 15
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 936
Across
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Tito's Finance Minister. : POPOVIC
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Washed floors. : MOPPED
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Common to both sexes. : EPICENE
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Work directed by Nellie Tayloe Ross. : MINTAGE
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Native of Albania's capital. : TIRANAN
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Miss Steber, Met soprano. : ELEANOR
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Snow: Scot. : SNA
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Detains aliens in wartime. : INTERNS
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Native of Panay. : ATI
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Mention in proof. : CITE
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Adjective for a Poe tale. : EERIE
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Surrounded by. : AMID
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Gardeners. : HOERS
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Laboratory animal. : RAT
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Source of a popular flavoring agent. : ANISE
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Came afterward. : ENSUED
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Takes credit from. : DETRACTS
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Of Truman's office. : PRESIDIAL
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A shade of violet. : WISTERIA
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Inquisitive. : PRYING
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Payments at poker. : ANTES
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A high degree. : NTH
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A flower, the China ___. : ASTER
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Any Dutch town. : STAD
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Sun Valley gliders: Var. : SKEES
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People of northern Arabia. : TEMA
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Roman writer: Abbr. : HOR
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Time for paying: 2 wds. : DUEDATE
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Walter "___" Barber. : RED
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Aggressive nation. : INVADER
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Discharge from obligation. : RELEASE
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Pieces of metal of a certain shape. : TEEBARS
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He picks up the check. : TREATER
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What a 25 Down does. : ASSAYS
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She's clairvoyant. : SEERESS
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French statesman. : PETSCHE
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Supreme Court decision. : OPINION
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Branch Rickey's team. : PIRATES
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Edible tuber of South America. : OCA
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First word of Caesar's message. : VENI
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Senseless. : INANE
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Basketball player, usually tall. : CENTER
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He wrote "The Red House Mystery." : MILNE
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Individuals. : ONES
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School-community group. : PTA
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Of President Arosemena's land. : PANAMIC
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"I" is his favorite pronoun. : EGOTIST
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Makes fun of. : DERIDES
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Deserved. : MERITED
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Shone. : ERADIATED
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Hibok Hibok did. : ERUPTED
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Chemist. : ANALYST
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Ancient Chinese. : SERES
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Parrot of Brazil. : ARARA
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German article. : DER
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Bellhop's expectation. : TIP
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Doughnuts: Slang. : SINKERS
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River in Arkansas. : WASHITA
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Chants. : INTONES
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Suffers deprivation. : STARVES
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Say it again. : ITERATE
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Relentless avengers. : NEMESES
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Road machines. : GRADERS
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Popular card game. : HEARTS
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Litigants. : SUERS
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Cubic meter. : STERE
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June 6, 1944. : DDAY
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"Waitin' for the Robert ___." : ELEE
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Camel's-hair fabric. : ABA
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Where the tympanum is. : EAR

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 11 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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