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New York Times, Friday, May 18, 1951

1-Down : In sequence.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.46, Missing: { F H J Q Y }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 16
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© 1951, The New York TimesNo. 698
Across
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An impromptu team. : SCRUB
6
Nanook of the North. : ESKIMO
12
Noah's ocean. : DELUGE
13
Russian ballerina (1885-1931). : PAVLOVA
15
Fine-wooled sheep. : MERINOS
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Forced to stop. : STALLED
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Great poems. : EPICS
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Three: Fr. : TROIS
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Spanish gold. : ORO
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Spill over. : LEAK
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City on the road to Rangoon. : PROME
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Blunt penpoint. : STUB
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Bank payments: Abbr. : INT
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Former Governor of Connecticut. : CROSS
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Mythical mother of rhymes. : GOOSE
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University city, capital of So. Australia. : ADELAIDE
29
Digs. : DELVES
30
Peronista. : ARGENTINE
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Inquiries into corruption. : PROBES
35
Borscht. : BEETSOUP
39
Automaton. : ROBOT
40
Coppers. : CENTS
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Favoring. : PRO
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Roman road. : ITER
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City divisions. : WARDS
44
Mountain near Lake Lucerne. : RIGI
45
Imperfect: Prefix. : MAL
46
Sad song. : DIRGE
47
White wear. : LINEN
48
Make use of. : UTILIZE
50
Cause of a reaction. : REAGENT
52
Words for Ali Baba. : SESAMES
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Force payments. : EXTORT
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Irish daggers. : SKEENS
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Men of action. : DOERS
Down
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In sequence. : SERIATE
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An instant success: Slang. : CLICK
3
Figures on the score board. : RUNS
4
Hugh in Italy. : UGO
5
Straddled. : BESTRODE
6
Salts and Downs. : EPSOMS
7
Eccentric French composer, Erik ___. : SATIE
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Russian beer: Var. : KVAS
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Useless kind of wind. : ILL
10
Possible successor to Stalin. : MOLOTOV
11
Hackneyed repetition. : OVERUSE
12
Rely. : DEPEND
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Houses of sun-dried bricks. : ADOBES
15
Aphetic form of a girl's name. : MELIA
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Anna the dynamic. : ROSENBERG
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Complacent characters. : PRIGS
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Cobbles. : SOLES
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Mark to insert. : CARET
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Men: Slang. : GENTS
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Secretary Tobin's province. : LABOR
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Legislatures of Denmark, Sweden, Japan, etc. : DIETS
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Offered. : TENDERED
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Portable stove used by Arctic explorers. : PRIMUS
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Spins. : ROTATES
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Cleopatra's needle. : OBELISK
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Thinkers out loud. : OPINERS
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Essential now. : URGENT
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West ___. : POINT
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Gesture of affection. : CARESS
43
Shrivel. : WIZEN
44
Harshness. : RIGOR
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Subway fare. : DIME
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Dilatory. : LATE
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New Guinea port. : LAE
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Out: Prefix. : EXO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 14 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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