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New York Times, Tuesday, April 1, 1952

39-Down : A wind instrument or a kind of flyboat.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
David Steinberg notes:

Left 54-Down clue as in original, but the ship was "The Pequod."

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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 1,017
Across
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Watering places. : SPAS
5
Winners. : ACES
9
Cutty ___, 19th century American clipper. : SARK
13
Like the decks of the Flying Enterprise. : AWASH
14
Mother of Poseidon. : RHEA
15
Turkish regiment. : ALAI
16
John Paul Jones' famous man-of-war. : BONHOMMERICHARD
19
Silkworm. : ERI
20
Shelter or covering. : ROOF
21
Let out. : LOANED
22
He gave the famous toast ending, " ... but our country, right or wrong!" : DECATUR
24
Polar animal. : BEAR
25
Chemin de ___, French railway. : FER
26
Pirateers. : CORSAIRS
30
Nazi battleship sunk off North Cape. : SCHARNHORST
34
Book of the Old Testament: Abbr. : NEH
35
Man in a garden. : HOER
36
Part of a serviceman's address. : APO
37
Alms box. : ARCA
38
Addition to a villa. : ELL
39
Donald McKay's famous clipper ship. : FLYINGCLOUD
43
The makings of macaroni and spaghetti. : SEMOLINA
45
___ pro nobis. : ORA
46
Unsophisticated person: Slang. : RUBE
47
Zealous enterprise. : CRUSADE
51
Fly a plane. : AVIATE
54
First Japanese Ambassador to U. S. : AOKI
55
Mal de ___. : MER
56
Mate of H. M. S. Bounty. : MISTERCHRISTIAN
59
Port on an inlet of the Skagerrak. : OSLO
60
Natterjack. : TOAD
61
U. S. coin, or a type of submarine chaser. : EAGLE
62
Prophet. : SEER
63
Recedes, as the tide. : EBBS
64
Stem. : ROOT
Down
1
Used many oaths. : SWORE
2
Contagious fear. : PANIC
3
Wood for oars. : ASH
4
Not as tall as Long John Silver. : SHORTER
5
Feature of the Monitor and Merrimac. : ARMOR
6
Kin of a sea cook. : CHEF
7
Ever: Poetic. : EER
8
Ketch, lugger, yawl, etc. : SAILERS
9
Where the "ships" are four-legged. : SAHARA
10
Admiral Kirk. : ALAN
11
Briefly cooked. : RARE
12
Part of his treasure is recovered in "The Gold Bug." : KIDD
13
Retired. : ABED
17
Grieve. : MOURN
18
The "C" in U. S. C. G. : COAST
23
Distant. : AFAR
24
Nonmetallic element, extremely hard. : BORON
26
Plenty, as in cornu___. : COPIA
27
Girdle receptacle carried by Japanese. : INRO
28
Received: French. : RECU
29
Herringlike fish. : SHAD
30
"___ Gone With the Wind." : SHES
31
Composer Porter. : COLE
32
Rudder, tiller or wheel. : HELM
33
He debated with Daniel Webster. : HAYNE
37
Exclamation of pity. : ALAS
39
A wind instrument or a kind of flyboat. : FLUTE
40
New French passenger liner. : LIBERTE
41
He wrote "The Lower Depths." : GORKI
42
U. S. S. Daytona or Chicago. : CRUISER
44
Campaign speaker. : ORATOR
47
Small ropes. : CORDS
48
Spanish friend. : AMIGO
49
Distributed. : DEALT
50
Sea bird. : ERNE
51
Man's name meaning burden. : AMOS
52
Carpenter's or machinist's tool. : VISE
53
Pines or Wight. : ISLE
54
Captain of the "Pequod." : AHAB
57
Male swan. : COB
58
Philippine peasant. : TAO

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

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