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New York Times, Wednesday, January 30, 1952

8-Down : Fish by letting the bait bob lightly.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 16 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 955
Across
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Little Boy Blue's charges. : COWS
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Chunks of earth. : CLODS
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Talk informally. : CHAT
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Got down. : ALIT
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Dialect of ancient Greek. : IONIC
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Girl's nickname. : REBA
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Where a farmer stockpiles. : SILO
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Meaningless incantation. : MUMBOJUMBO
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Highway barrier. : TOLLGATE
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Increases the ante. : RAISES
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1492, 1776, etc. : YEARS
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Playing cards. : TENS
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Supervisor of manners or morals. : CENSOR
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Transferred again by legal document. : REDEEDED
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Parisian friend. : AMI
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Has deep feeling for. : LOVES
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Figure of speech, as irony. : TROPE
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One name for a baseball. : PILL
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Girl's nickname. : NELLA
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An addition: Abbr. : SUPP
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Mr. Kinder of the Red Sox. : ELLIS
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Thong for Towser. : LEASH
44
Life: Comb. form. : BIO
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He pitched two no-hitters last year. : REYNOLDS
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Chicken: French. : POULET
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Give out. : EMIT
50
The Vulgate. : BIBLE
51
Cooks. : STEAMS
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Any lighter-than-air craft. : AEROSTAT
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Everything but the kitchen sink. : HODGEPODGE
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End of a race. : TAPE
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Incite. : URGE
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Where the Biblical witch lived. : ENDOR
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Barely gets by. : EKES
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Parts of a golf course. : TEES
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Pauses. : RESTS
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One side in "cold war." : REDS
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Dramatis personae. : CAST
2
Musical medley. : OLIO
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Having no regard for one's wishes. : WILLYNILLY
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Accessories for evening wear. : STOLES
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One of Edna Ferber's best novels. : CIMARRON
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Awkward fellows. : LOUTS
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"This one is ___." : ONME
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Fish by letting the bait bob lightly. : DIB
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Made a basket. : SCORED
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Navy vessels. : CRUISERS
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Borders. : HEMS
12
French cleric. : ABBE
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Art colony near Santa Fé. : TAOS
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Screen actress Gaynor. : JANET
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Prison, in Britain. : GAOL
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Famed inventor in electricity. : TESLA
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Playful skip. : CAPER
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Hero of "South Pacific." : EMILE
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Ex-member of "Murder, Inc." : RELES
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Comic device in the theatre. : DOUBLETAKE
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Silas Marner's foster-daughter. : EPPIE
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Distribution point for military supplies. : DEPOT
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South African grassland. : VELDT
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Family trees. : LINEAGES
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Young hopefuls. : ASPIRERS
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Amiens' river. : SOMME
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Wandering worker. : HOBO
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Imperfect speaker. : LISPER
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Heavy overcoat. : ULSTER
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Generated. : BEGOT
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Fastened up. : SHUT
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Pulled apart. : TORE
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Brink. : EDGE
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Says further. : ADDS
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Did likewise. : APED
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Fictional heroine. : TESS
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United. : ONE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 15 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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