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New York Times, Monday, January 22, 1951

50-Down : Fish with a spoon.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13
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© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 582
Across
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Mr. Austin's deputy in the Security Council. : GROSS
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Milwaukee's specialty. : BEER
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Island of the Netherlands Indies. : BALI
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Nobel Prize winner ___ Bunche. : RALPH
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Spanish food mixture. : OLLA
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City in Oklahoma. : ENID
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Improper. : UNDUE
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"Peace-loving" Soviet orator. : VISHINSKY
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___-do-well. : NEER
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Fisherman's thrill. : BITE
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Nozzle of a blast furnace. : TEWEL
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Red Spanish sherry: 2 words. : TENTWINE
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The goal in ice hockey. : CAGE
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Comfort. : EASE
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Guiding star. : POLARIS
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F.D.R.'s Attorney General. : BIDDLE
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Bad: French. : MAL
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The beach near Venice. : LIDO
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One: Ital. : UNO
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Quito is its capital. : ECUADOR
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New: Prefix. : NEO
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Ascend. : RISE
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Attempt. : TRY
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J. P. : MORGAN
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F. D. R.'s Secretary of War. : STIMSON
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Qualified. : ABLE
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North African native. : MOOR
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Asian native. : ORIENTAL
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Ridges on the fingerboard of a guitar. : FRETS
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Remarkable variable star. : MIRA
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Man's name. : ERNO
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Statement of reasons. : RATIONALE
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Roused from sleep. : AWOKE
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Of Ares or Mars: Comb. form. : AREO
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Beverages. : ALES
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College buildings. : HALLS
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Sea-swallow. : TERN
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Saucy. : PERT
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"Deutschland über ___." : ALLES
Down
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Fish that makes a guttural sound. : GRUNT
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Hindu queen. : RANEE
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In ___ days. : OLDEN
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Gushed. : SPURTED
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Rider Haggard novel. : SHE
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Of the cow family. : BOVINE
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Typewriter type. : ELITE
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Otherwise. : ELSE
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Cheer. : RAH
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U. N. delegate Sir ___ Rama Rau. : BENEGAL
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Echoing. : ANSWERING
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Be fond of. : LIKE
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Descriptive poem. : IDYL
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A kind of type: Abbr. : ITAL
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Line dividing an angle. : BISECTOR
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Rib in a fabric. : WALE
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Bogotá is its capital. : COLOMBIA
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Leaf of a pond lily. : PAD
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Bright thought. : IDEA
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Shortly. : SOON
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Prickly envelopes of fruits. : BURS
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First letter: Abbr. : INIT
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New G. I. "dog tag" warning of radiation. : DOSIMETER
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Month. : MAY
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Vase. : URN
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Character part. : ROLE
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Deep feeling. : EMOTION
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Fresh start. : RENEWAL
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Comme-ci, comme-ca. : SOSO
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Stop. : ARREST
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Engineer's helper. : OILER
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Fish with a spoon. : TROLL
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Joint. : ANKLE
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Fertile soil. : LOESS
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Deke, for instance. : FRAT
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Infrequent. : RARE
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Man. : MALE
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Drowse. : NAP
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Exclamation of discovery. : AHA

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

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