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New York Times, Saturday, November 8, 1952

24-Down : Billy of boxing.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 1,238
Across
1
Miss San Juan of the stage. : OLGA
5
Pieces of furniture. : SOFAS
10
Bass horn. : TUBA
14
Flipperling's parent. : SEAL
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Little Nell's last name. : TRENT
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Where Rugby is played. : ETON
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Pappy Waldorf's squad. : CALIFORNIABEARS
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Street sign: Abbr. : AVE
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He wrote "Amores." : OVID
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Miss du Maurier. : DAPHNE
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Lifesaving feats. : RESCUES
25
Buenos ___. : AIRES
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Nobel peace prize winner, 1949. : ORR
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Elizabeth Taylor, for instance. : BRUNETTE
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Paasikivi's people. : FINNS
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Dresses demurely. : PRIMS
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Tributary of the Rhine. : AAR
35
Web-footed bird. : LOON
36
Hodgepodges. : OLIOS
37
French city. : STLO
38
Small insect. : ANT
39
Personal view: Colloq. : SLANT
40
Believes. : FEELS
41
Student activity between halves. : MARCHING
43
___ tight. : SIT
44
French student. : ELEVE
45
Wrestling grip. : TOEHOLD
49
Roman magistrate. : AEDILE
51
Over the hill. : AWOL
52
Chinese Red menace. : MAO
53
Coach Taylor's Palo Alto eleven. : STANFORDINDIANS
56
Man's nickname. : TAMI
57
Old name of green land. : IERNE
58
Snick and ___. : SNEE
59
Mr. Guinness. : ALEC
60
Part of a cake. : LAYER
61
State of the Rebels and Maroons: Abbr. : MISS
Down
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Statue on Humphrey Bogart's desk. : OSCAR
2
Part of 51 Across. : LEAVE
3
Weather phenomena. : GALES
4
Husband of Fatima. : ALI
5
Owen Johnson's Yale man. : STOVER
6
Plant with a fragrant rootstock. : ORRIS
7
Parry. : FEND
8
Hornbill cuckoo. : ANI
9
Scenes of Saturday strife. : STADIUMS
10
Sitting Bull's castle. : TEEPEE
11
Team nicknamed "The Farmers." : UTAHSTATE
12
___ to the purple. : BORN
13
"Devil ___," McCoy target. : ANSE
18
They beat full houses. : FOURS
19
Livestock shelters. : BARNS
24
Billy of boxing. : CONN
25
Unrestrainedly. : ARIOT
27
Conduct or convey. : BRING
28
Over six feet. : TALL
29
Winged god. : EROS
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Deceive: Colloq. : FLAM
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Island of the Hebrides. : IONA
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For whom the "Four Horsemen" played. : NOTREDAME
33
Jet. : PLANE
36
A "must" in Italian cuisine. : OLIVEOIL
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Brother of Cain. : SETH
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Part of a closet. : SHELF
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Baker, Grant or Franklin. : FIELD
42
Medical station. : CLINIC
43
Oklahoma player. : SOONER
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String. : TWINE
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Native of Muscat. : OMANI
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Byways. : LANES
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Medicates. : DOSES
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The Thin Man's dog. : ASTA
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And elsewhere: Latin abbr. : ETAL
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Thirsty: Poetic. : ADRY
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C. R. Wickard's agency. : REA
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Doctrine. : ISM

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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