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Marcia Gladstone
Marcia Gladstone

New York Times, Monday, May 26, 1958

12-Down : Insecticide ingredient.

Author:
Marcia Gladstone
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { K Q W X }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,254
Across
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Thinly scattered. : SPARSE
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Actor Ronald. : REAGAN
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"Childe ___." : HAROLD
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Native to a particular people. : ENDEMIC
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Seasonal drink. : EGGNOG
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Upright. : VERTICAL
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Rob ___. : ROY
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Lounging suit. : PAJAMAS
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Pyrites. : ORE
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Inoperative. : IDLE
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Gipsy married woman. : ROMI
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Part of a watch. : STEM
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Pseudo. : FALSE
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Rigid version of the foil. : EPEE
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Actress ___ Louise. : TINA
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Commit depradations. : PREY
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Creator of Inspector Maigret. : SIMENON
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Teach. : SCHOOL
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Subleases. : RELETS
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Excited. : AROUSED
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Sheol. : HELL
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Antarctic sea. : ROSS
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Struggle (with). : COPE
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Florida resort city. : TAMPA
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Gullible one. : DUPE
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Fluent. : GLIB
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Heavy, reverberatory sound. : ROLL
54
Panay native. : ATI
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American physicist in field of radiation. : ALVAREZ
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Poke. : JAB
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Service club man. : ROTARIAN
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Nullify. : NEGATE
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Coming into existence. : NASCENT
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One who begs a favor. : CRAVER
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Maidens. : LASSES
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Upright. : HONEST
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Moslem dignitary. : SHERIF
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Towerlike storied structure. : PAGODA
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Scottish county. : ARGYLL
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Man's nickname. : RON
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Spill over. : SLOP
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Scott hero. : EDGAR
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Give new form to old materials: Colloq. : REVAMP
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Wolves, to lambs. : ENEMIES
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Spanish seaport. : ADRA
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Acquires. : GETS
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"Where ___?" : AMI
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Insecticide ingredient. : NICOTINE
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"I ___ one two-penny damn." : CARENOT
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City between Paris and Nantes. : LEMANS
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Fictional "Pal." : JOEY
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Make one's own. : ESPOUSE
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Chief, as of a role. : STELLAR
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God of love. : EROS
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Where the Shannon flows. : EIRE
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Source of power: Abbr. : ELEC
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Liquefy. : MELT
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Native chief of India: Var. : SARDAR
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Bit of toast for garnish. : CROUTON
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Bellevue, for example. : HOSPITAL
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Streamer to show wind direction: Naut. : DOGVANE
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Eldest son. : HEIR
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Fixes in position. : PLANTS
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California desert. : MOJAVE
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Engravings. : PLATES
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New prince in Mexico. : ALBERT
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Platform at a dog show. : BENCH
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Parts of circles. : ARCS
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Reclines. : LIES
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___ hour (critical point). : ZERO
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Man's name meaning "healer." : ASA
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"Began," in Chaucer. : GAN

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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