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Mary S. Manning
Mary S. Manning

New York Times, Monday, October 25, 1954

39-Down : Excessive demand.

Author:
M. S. Manning
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
Mary S. Manning has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
M. S. Manning is an alias for Mary S. Manning.
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,945
Across
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Coast Guard girl. : SPAR
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Infant son of Farouk. : AHMED
10
Heavy blow: Colloq. : BASH
14
Jabberwocky word. : WABE
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Girl's name. : LEILA
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Upon. : ONTO
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Ship in Arctic waters. : ICEBREAKER
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Place on a bus route. : STOP
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General hand-to-hand fight. : MELEE
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Misleading. : DECEPTIVE
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Just out. : LATEST
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Picardy blooms. : ROSES
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Dusty Rhodes. : FIELDER
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Suppose. : OPINE
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Except that. : UNLESS
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Small weight. : GRAM
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Golfer's goal. : PAR
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Fly before the wind. : SCUD
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Cinnamon ___. : TOAST
39
Sicily's volcano. : ETNA
40
Strategic Air Command. : SAC
41
Former resident of the White House. : BESS
42
Putting a strain on. : TAXING
44
Frosters. : ICERS
46
Consoles. : SOLACES
47
M. Maurois. : ANDRE
49
Of Pahlevi's country. : IRANIC
51
Word for Miss America. : BEAUTIFUL
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Play as on a uke. : STRUM
57
Strokes of good fortune. : HITS
58
Turns and curves. : SINUATIONS
60
Molding. : OGEE
61
Onionlike plants. : LEEKS
62
Designer Cassini. : OLEG
63
Pieces in checkers. : REDS
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Seated: Fr. : ASSIS
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Flicker's home. : NEST
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In the ___ (active in society). : SWIM
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Horse's gait. : PACE
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Explorer Tasman. : ABEL
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What the Guatemalans did. : REBELLED
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"Cakes and ___." : ALE
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Dive: Colloq. : HEADER
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Sens. Mansfield and Monroney. : MIKES
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They vote. : ELECTORS
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Challenge. : DARE
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Gov. Herter's capital. : BOSTON
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Type of home remedy. : ANTISEPTIC
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Range. : STOVE
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Expectations. : HOPES
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Peruses. : READS
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Affectedly proper. : PRIM
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Canopy on a four-poster. : TESTER
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Tempest in a teapot. : FUSS
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Peruvian Indian. : INCA
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Explained. : ELUCIDATED
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General of World War II fame. : PATTON
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Highway fame. : GAS
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Fatima's sister. : ANNE
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Name for a shaggy dog. : RAGS
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Settles into a rigid routine. : OSSIFIES
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Excessive demand. : EXACTION
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Vegetable. : BEET
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Tipped, as a ship. : ALIST
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Old-time pitchers. : CRUSES
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Graceful greyhound. : SALUKI
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Detest. : ABHOR
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Snow, in France. : NEIGE
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Characters of an ancient alphabet. : RUNES
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Small body of land: Span. : ISLA
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Function. : ROLE
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Ones: Fr. : UNES
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Highest noncom. : MSGT
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Burro. : ASS

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

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