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New York Times, Wednesday, February 26, 1958

32-Down : Knives.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.49, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
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© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,165
Across
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European capital. : MOSCOW
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Of a musical motif. : THEMATIC
15
Unwilling. : AVERSE
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A police squad. : HOMICIDE
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Tell to someone else. : REPEAT
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Bursts inward. : IMPLODES
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Subtle wiles. : ARTS
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Long narrow picture. : PANEL
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Method: Abbr. : SYST
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Cabin. : STATEROOM
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Endanger. : IMPERIL
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Neighbors of the Lebanese. : SYRIANS
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Small, white seedless grape. : SULTANA
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Deep water. : OCEAN
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Literary scraps. : ANA
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Possessive pronoun. : ITS
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Soak flax. : RET
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"Oh, wad some power the giftie ___ us ... " : GIE
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Exert power. : ACTON
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Hard to pin down. : ELUSIVE
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June and rose beetles. : CHAFERS
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Business plums. : BONUSES
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Drawings done without mechanical aids. : FREEHANDS
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Fraulein's name. : ILSE
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Fetch a price. : BRING
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Enter in a ledger. : POST
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Keep up. : MAINTAIN
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Simple life forms. : AMEBAE
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Throbbed. : PULSATED
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Port on Puget Sound. : TACOMA
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Doing nothing. : IDLENESS
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Regard. : ESTEEM
Down
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Name taken by Naomi. : MARA
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Done with. : OVER
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30 days: Abbr. : SEPT
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Flaming vessel used as a torch. : CRESSET
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Female bear: Span. : OSA
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Sign it pays to believe in. : WETPAINT
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Biblical possessive. : THINE
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Ballpark thrills. : HOMERS
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Make use of. : EMPLOY
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Wire measure. : MIL
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Not like an orderly universe. : ACOSMIC
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Orderly. : TIDY
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Roman date. : IDES
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___ la guerre. : CEST
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Successful U. S. missile. : ATLAS
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Airplane for beginners. : TRAINER
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Flowery of speech. : OROTUND
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Rebecca's father, in "Ivanhoe." : ISAAC
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Chew vigorously. : MUNCH
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Silver: Span. : PLATA
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Shield or protection. : AEGIS
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Gullible. : NAIVE
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Knives. : SNEES
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Prohibit again. : REBAN
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Stretch out. : ELONGATE
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What not to give or take. : OFFENSE
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Possible culprit. : SUSPECT
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Partial refund. : REBATE
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Succession. : SERIES
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Does. : HINDS
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Kaffir troop. : IMPI
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Praise. : LAUD
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Relative of a jamb. : SILL
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Double-reed instrument. : OBOE
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Ditto. : SAME
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Twenty mules. : TEAM
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Florida tinge. : TAN
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Moms. : MAS

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2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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