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New York Times, Friday, May 11, 1973

52-Down : Western alliance

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
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© 1973, The New York TimesNo. 8,672
Across
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___ cry : AFAR
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Cries of relief : PHEWS
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Musical work : OPUS
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Not taped : LIVE
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Museum piece : RELIC
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Lacoste or Coty : RENE
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Field for Gallup or Roper : PSEPHOLOGY
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Open : AJAR
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Restrict in range : STRAITEN
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Do a tailoring job : LETOUT
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Russian name : IVAN
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Chill : ALGOR
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Bowling scores : SPARES
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Word game : ANAGRAMS
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Lapse : ERR
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Omens : SIGNS
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Become alert : SITUP
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U. S. reformer : RIIS
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More rational : SANER
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French river : OISE
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Painter Hieronymus : BOSCH
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Dormouse : LEROT
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___ ordinaire : VIN
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Conventional : ORTHODOX
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Conduct : DIRECT
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Golf score : ONEUP
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Auk genus : ALLE
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Put in a container : ENCASE
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Indian songbird : AMADAVAT
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Find fault : CARP
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Early convention nominees : NATIVESONS
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Nipa palm : ATAP
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Papal cape : ORALE
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Gymnast Korbut : OLGA
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Specks : DOTS
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"Don't go near the ___" : WATER
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___-do-well : NEER
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Jungfrau et al. : ALPS
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Boxer's weapon : FIST
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Assert : AVER
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Mend : REPAIR
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Opening lines of a drama : PROTASIS
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Miss Hayes : HELEN
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N. C. college : ELON
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Hairpiece : WIG
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___ and Charybdis : SCYLLA
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"The Messiah," e.g. : ORATORIO
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Disparaging : PEJORATIVE
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Two-toed sloth : UNAU
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Spanish muralist : SERT
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Busy places : HIVES
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Bacon's partners : EGGS
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Goose genus : ANSER
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Slavic prefix : SERBO
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Monastery V.I.P. : PRIOR
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Blue blood : ARISTOCRAT
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Wing of a building : ANNEX
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Lyric's companion : MUSIC
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Exhausted : SPENT
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Lively dance : GALOP
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Distilled liquor : SCHNAPPS
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Tennis star : RODLAVER
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Garden tools : HOES
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Diacritical mark : TILDE
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Notation on a bill : DUENOW
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"Theirs not to ___ why" : REASON
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Miss by ___ (wide of mark) : AMILE
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Modified organism : ECAD
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Western alliance : NATO
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Rat-___ : ATAT
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Field mouse : VOLE
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French seraph : ANGE
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Emperor : TSAR
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Sky Altar : ARA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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