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New York Times, Tuesday, March 13, 1951

46-Down : Nursery rhyme character.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 249 (avg 1.31)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12
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© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 632
Across
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Price stabilizer. : DISALLE
8
Greetings or farewell, in Oahu. : ALOHA
13
Chancellor of Western Germany. : ADENAUER
15
Spring flowers. : LILACS
17
The army. : MILITARY
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Spain and Portugal. : IBERIA
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Coin of Peru. : SOL
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Tricky: Slang. : SNIDE
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More unusual. : RARER
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Plant modified by environment. : ECAD
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Racehorse: Colloq. : GEEGEE
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New York subway. : IRT
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Instruments, of the harp class. : LYRES
30
Baseball's Mr. Northey. : RON
31
General Bradley. : OMAR
32
Honk. : TOOT
35
Repeat. : ITERATE
37
Polite way of saying "If you are willing." : PLEASE
39
Unruffled. : SERENE
40
Native of Anchorage. : ALASKAN
41
A branch of math. : TRIG
42
Relax. : REST
43
Revolver: Slang. : GAT
45
Notching machine. : COPER
49
Hebrew letter. : TAV
50
Imprison again. : RECAGE
53
Number of Supreme Court justices. : NINE
54
French river, from the Alps to the Rhone. : ISERE
56
Mr. Zola. : EMILE
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Sea bird. : ERN
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Exaggeratedly sweet. : SUGARY
61
John A. Costello, for instance. : IRISHMAN
63
Arranged on a salver. : TRAYED
64
First known period of human culture. : STONEAGE
65
Letters of the alphabet. : ESSES
66
More severe. : STERNER
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Maiden. : DAMSEL
2
Senseless folly. : IDIOCY
3
Auditor General of Canada. : SELLAR
4
Cuckoo. : ANI
5
Buddhist pillars. : LATS
6
___ Prabang, state in Indo-China. : LUANG
7
Spectral. : EERIE
8
Mr. Baba. : ALI
9
Cuba ___: rum and kola. : LIBRE
10
Genus of olives. : OLEA
11
A Truman foreign policy adviser. : HARRIMAN
12
Convert into steel. : ACIERATE
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___ Cup: a golf trophy. : RYDER
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Existentialist author of "Troubled Sleep." : SARTRE
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Selfish person. : EGOIST
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Abominate. : DETEST
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Come on stage. : ENTER
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Don Marquis' "Old ___." : SOAK
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Senator Morse's state. : OREGON
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Sioux Indian. : OSAGE
34
Bridge holding. : TENACE
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___ Blore, actor. : ERIC
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Satisfaction. : PLEASURE
38
City that heard recent atomic tests. : LASVEGAS
40
John Marin, for instance. : ARTIST
44
Woolen strainer. : TAMIS
46
Nursery rhyme character. : PIEMAN
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Anger. : ENRAGE
48
Recently deceased President of Austria. : RENNER
50
Cattail. : REREE
51
Encircles. : GIRTS
52
Nobel Prize poet. : ELIOT
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Sunbeams. : RAYS
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Former slave. : ESNE
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Measures: Abbr. : YDS
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That girl. : HER

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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