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New York Times, Thursday, October 16, 1952

40-Down : Damon Runyon characters.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 15
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 1,215
Across
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Devil's food. : CAKE
5
Where Toledo is. : SPAIN
10
Man's name meaning "substitute." : SETH
14
A football: Colloq. : OVAL
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High tableland of South Africa. : KAROO
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Heroine of the "Oz" books. : OZMA
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City in Belgium. : MONS
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Member of a noble or privileged upper class. : ARISTOCRAT
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Cut in two. : BISECTED
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Esoteric or secret. : ARCANE
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Spanish miss: Abbr. : SRA
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Poetic contraction. : OER
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French cleric. : ABBE
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Where 21 Down comes from. : SAAR
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State of great excitement. : DELIRIUM
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Rhodes of South Africa. : CECIL
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Compiler of a famous word book. : ROGET
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___ pro nobis. : ORA
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Girl's name. : ALIX
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The end. : FINIS
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Speak sharply. : SNAP
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With: German. : MIT
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Ignoramuses. : DOLTS
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Nursery sound effects. : WAILS
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Important concern of industry. : PAYROLLS
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City in Austria, port on the Danube. : LINZ
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Wing of houses. : ELLS
46
Ammunition for a smear. : MUD
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Assist. : AID
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Character in "Measure for Measure." : ANGELO
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Obviously. : PATENTLY
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He immortalized Lucy and Tintern Abbey. : WORDSWORTH
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Love: French. : AIME
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Case for toiletries. : ETUI
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French girl's name. : ELISE
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Departing traveler. : GOER
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Obligation. : DEBT
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Take exception. : DEMUR
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Miss Blyth and Miss Miller. : ANNS
Down
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Ornaments worn with mantillas. : COMBS
2
To have: French. : AVOIR
3
Where President Truman once worked on a newspaper. : KANSASCITY
4
In addition. : ELSE
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Dick Button, for instance. : SKATER
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Kitchen knife. : PARER
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Parched. : ARID
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Yellow moths of North America. : IOS
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V. I. P.'s. : NOTABLES
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Association football. : SOCCER
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Man's name meaning "help." : EZRA
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Investigator for a department of the Government: Colloq. : TMAN
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Aversion plus ill will. : HATE
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Curved path of a planet. : ORBIT
21
Anthracite. : COAL
25
Sponsorship. : AEGIS
27
___-la-Chapelle. : AIX
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Parental prohibitions. : DONTS
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Chemical process. : IONIZATION
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1,400-mi. river into the Caspian. : URAL
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Cartographer's product. : MAPS
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Scene of "Wish You Were Here." : CAMP
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Mr. Kazan. : ELIA
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Small brooks. : RILLS
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Succeeded. : FOLLOWED
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Saint: Spanish. : SAN
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Damon Runyon characters. : DOLLS
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Spacious. : WIDE
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Check a ms. again. : REEDIT
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Religious reformer of the 14th century. : LUTHER
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Ornamental pine tree of Japan. : MATSU
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Large lake near Leningrad. : ILMEN
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Workers with color. : DYERS
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Impressed. : AWED
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Billet. : NOTE
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Wormlike larva. : GRUB
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Strait-laced. : PRIM
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Hills in Assam and Burma. : NAGA
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Swedish man's name. : OLE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 14 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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