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New York Times, Monday, September 1, 1952

24-Down : Having a line on which a body revolves.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.43, Missing: { F J Q }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 18
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© 1952, The New York TimesNo. 1,170
Across
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Hot part of summer. : DOGDAYS
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Kind of jazz dance. : STOMP
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A prominent Democrat. : HARRIMAN
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Dawn of day. : AURORA
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Bird that is one year old. : ANNOTINE
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Mount ___. : VERNON
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Opinion. : VIEW
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Quantities of yarn: Var. : SKENES
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Fruit drink. : ADE
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Poetic contraction. : OER
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Magnitude. : SIZE
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Astringent. : ALUM
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Senator Hoey of North Carolina. : CLYDE
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Where the Carlsbad Caverns are. : NEWMEXICO
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What a qualified flying cadet gets. : WINGS
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Sprung up. : ARISEN
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Term used in algebra. : APRIME
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Lucrezia Borgia's brother. : CESARE
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Poor in quality. : MEAGER
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"Now I ___ down to sleep ... " : LAYME
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Invests with sovereign authority. : ENTHRONES
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State of being hated. : ODIUM
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Disorderly behavior. : RIOT
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River from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi. : OHIO
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___ grass, meadow barley. : RIE
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Japanese name. : ITO
52
Greek letters. : GAMMAS
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Thump. : BANG
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Examining official. : CENSOR
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Hippomenes defeated her. : ATALANTA
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Pale. : ANEMIC
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Native of Lagos. : NIGERIAN
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Keats' synonym for beauty. : TRUTH
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Certain kinds of motion pictures. : SCENICS
Down
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Wilbur ___ Steele. : DANIEL
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Stubborn; set in one's ways. : ORNERY
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Cultivate. : GROW
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Said: Fr. : DIT
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Faultily. : AMISS
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Pulling quickly: Colloq. : YANKING
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Signs of hay fever. : SNEEZES
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Keep from being wasted. : SAVE
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Nov. 4. : TUES
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Winner of Nobel peace prize, 1949. : ORR
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She's famous for her subtle smile. : MONALISA
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Pandro S. Berman, for instance. : PRODUCER
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Devastation. : HAVOC
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Relative of the buttercup. : ANEMONE
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Unaccustomed. : NEW
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Having a line on which a body revolves. : AXISED
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He married Miss Doud. : DWIGHT
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Pail or bucket: German. : EIMER
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Critic who was Helen Keller's editor (1877-1932). : MACY
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Lonely: Comb. form. : EREMO
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Orchid-grower Wolfe. : NERO
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Patriotic hymn. : AMERICA
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Contrite. : PENITENT
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Cultivator who uses roots from previous year's planting. : RATOONER
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Herbert and family. : LEHMANS
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Chiang Kai-shek or Mao Tse-tung. : ASIATIC
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___ de guerre. : NOM
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Persian. : IRANIC
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Mountains in Utah. : UINTAS
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Lloyd George's daughter. : MEGAN
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Maria Tallchief is one. : OSAGE
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Carry on: 2 wds. : GOIT
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Curved structural member. : ARCH
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Large seaport in Italy. : BARI
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Co-ed school in Dallas. : SMU
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Man's nickname. : LEN

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 13 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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