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New York Times, Saturday, August 23, 1952

12-Down : Tall-tale teller.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { J Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 14
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 1,161
Across
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Birthplace of Galileo. : PISA
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Downy duck. : EIDER
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Wheel along. : ROLL
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Garden parties. : ADAMANDEVE
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Refugee from a dust bowl. : OKIE
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Working both ways, as tariff pacts. : RECIPROCAL
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Close-knit tribe. : CLAN
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Soldier of Syngman Rhee. : ROK
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Lone flight. : SOLO
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Capital of a U. N. country. : ANKARA
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A worthless person: Archaic. : LOSEL
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The late Mr. Runyon. : DAMON
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Upper rooms. : LOFTS
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A kind of critic. : SEVEREST
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A bogeyman. : OGRE
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Shackles. : IRONS
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Bother. : IRK
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Runners amuck. : RIOTERS
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The breastbone. : STERNUM
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GOP rival. : DEM
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Make a new bow. : RETIE
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S-profiles molding. : OGEE
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Material deposited by a river. : SEDIMENT
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Negative contraction. : HASNT
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Coolers. : ICERS
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Birthplace of Columbus. : GENOA
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Uproar and confusion. : BEDLAM
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Type for emphasis: Abbr. : ITAL
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An extreme degree. : NTH
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From Aden to the Bering Sea.. : ASIA
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Baseball's hinterland. : BUSHLEAGUE
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At the end of the queue. : LAST
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Alienators of affection. : ESTRANGERS
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University of ESP experiments. : DUKE
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One way of spelling the monkey of the Rh factor. : RESUS
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Serious verse. : ODES
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A young salmon. : PARR
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Characteristic beliefs of large groups of people. : IDEOLOGIES
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The work of Alaric and his Visigoths, 410 A. D. : SACKOFROME
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Bon ___. : AMI
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Register. : ENROL
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Highly revered person. : IDOL
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Cryptanalyst. : DECODER
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One of the Gabors. : EVA
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Bewail all over again. : RELAMENT
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Notre Dame immortal. : ROCKNE
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Gov. Murray's state: Abbr. : OKLA
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Tall-tale teller. : LIAR
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Siberian waterway. : LENA
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Church sections. : APSES
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Saga tellers. : NORSE
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Let it stand. : STET
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Web-footed shore bird: Var. : AVOSET
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Beaverbrook's title. : LORD
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Girl. : SISTER
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Chanted monotonously. : SINGSONGED
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One's real disposition: 2 wds. : TRUENATURE
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Among Southern Slavs, a tiller of soil. : KMET
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Violinist Morini. : ERICA
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Fourth word of "Ben Bolt." : REMEMBER
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Bay horse of mixed colors. : ROAN
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Maintains stoutly. : INSISTS
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Enlarge upon. : DILATE
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Mrs. Melvyn Douglas. : HELEN
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Happy holidays. : GALAS
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A kind of eagle. : BALD
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Biblical name. : ESAU
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A record. : DISK
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Via. : THRU
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Adolf's Rudolf. : HESS
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Service. : USE
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In time past. : AGO

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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