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New York Times, Friday, March 14, 1952

9-Down : Novelist who writes about American Indians.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { B Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 85, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 999
Across
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The cap of a breaking wave. : FOAM
5
Assuage. : EASE
9
Cleopatra on the stage. : LEIGH
14
Dogcatcher. : IMPOUNDER
16
Fish. : ANGLE
17
Uta Hagen on the stage. : SAINTJOAN
18
Grind and bolt. : FLOUR
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One guilty of betrayal. : TRAITOR
20
More beautiful. : FAIRER
21
They will sound off at the Chicago conventions. : KEYNOTERS
24
Encourages. : CHEERS
27
155-mm guns. : LONGTOMS
31
Outbreaks of boisterous laughter. : ROARS
32
Because. : SINCE
33
Sound at a seance. : RAP
34
Energy units. : ERGS
35
One type of Broadway entertainment. : REVUE
36
Bertrand Russell's rank. : EARL
37
Compass point. : ESE
38
Where NATO will set up headquarters. : PARIS
39
252. : CCLII
40
Understand. : PERCEIVE
42
Treat as a pet. : COSSET
43
Status of the children of the old woman who lived in a shoe. : UNDERFOOT
45
Squirrel food. : ACORNS
48
Blind alley. : IMPASSE
52
Tuesday: French. : MARDI
53
9 Across stars in it. : STREETCAR
55
A fireplace, in a Scottish home. : INGLE
56
Theodore Koerner is their President. : AUSTRIANS
57
He wrote "The Barrel Organ." : NOYES
58
Morse code signals. : DOTS
59
Saskatchewan Indian. : CREE
Down
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One kind of a fight. : FIST
2
Poet freely rendered by Edward Fitzgerald. : OMAR
3
Seaport on Upolu Island. : APIA
4
Tramps' identification marks. : MONIKERS
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Takes pleasure in. : ENJOYS
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Embellish. : ADORN
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39 Down wrote about it. : SEA
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Man's name: Abbr. : ERN
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Novelist who writes about American Indians. : LAFARGE
10
Enter into some cause. : ENLIST
11
Man's name. : IGOR
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Stick. : GLUE
13
Term of address in Vienna. : HERR
15
Speaks. : UTTERS
20
Parry arguments. : FENCE
22
Antony and Caesar. : OLIVIER
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Natural state of muscle tension. : TONUS
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Move stealthily. : CREEP
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Predecessor of the Model T. : HORSE
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A kind of beaver. : EAGER
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Milestone for the Ph. D. student. : ORALS
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"Rose ___." : MARIE
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Serbian name for a seaport in Yugoslavia. : SPLIT
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Do duty for a term. : SERVE
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Missions of the Air Force. : RAIDS
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Transported with rapture. : ECSTATIC
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A problem for Nellie Tayloe Ross. : PENNIES
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America's earliest novelist to achieve world-wide fame. : COOPER
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Congeal or thicken. : CURDLE
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Sights to see at the Planetarium. : COMETS
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Highest in an examination. : FIRST
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Chemical compound. : AMIN
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"Arma virumque ___." : CANO
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Revelry. : ORGY
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Blemish. : SCAR
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Showing good sense. : SANE
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Pertaining to the Highland Celts. : ERSE
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___ sack. : SAD
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Your: Italian. : TUO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 12 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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