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Louis Baron
CURRENT EVENTS
New York Times, Sunday, October 13, 1946
Author:
Louis Baron
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 178 , Blocks: 82 , Avg Word Len: 5.02 , Missing: { Q } , Scrabble score: 664 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 148 , Cheaters: 0 , FITB: 6 , XRef: 0 , Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 45
Louis Baron has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1946, The New York Times No. 244
Across
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Intolerant enthusiasts. :
BIGOTS 7
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"Aryanism" in action. :
RACISM 22
Anti-"Jewish Palestine" monarchy. :
ARABIA 23
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Wine city in Portugal. :
OPORTO 25
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River in W. Germany, 78 m. to the Rhine. :
NAHE 37
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Largest type of tooth. :
TUSK 43
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Where Napoleon defeated Blücher, 1815. :
LIGNY 52
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Classical site of rural happiness. :
ARCADIA 58
River in Kurdistan, 200 m. to the Tigris. :
ZAAB 60
Japan's waning "State Religion." :
SHINTO 63
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De ___, discoverer of the Mississippi. :
SOTO 76
West point of Aleutians. :
ATTU 78
Housing bill sponsor. :
TAFT 80
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Famous Southerners :
LEES 84
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Large South American heron. :
COCOI 93
Tree crow of Java. :
TEMIA 94
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Hindu law court official. :
AMALA 97
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Old Czarist "concentration camps." :
ETAPES 99
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Eugene O'Neill's daughter. :
OONA 108
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Symbol of Amenhotep IV. :
ATEN 111
Subject of Smyth report. :
ATOM 113
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Second on denazification list. :
AUSTRIA 128
Leningrad's river. :
NEVA 129
Where Tripoli is. :
LIBYA 132
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Favorite Rubens art subject. :
NUDE 136
Group suspected of bombing Palestine's Hotel King David. :
IRGUN 140
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Ancient Norse war galley. :
AESC 147
Aztec god of sowing. :
XIPE 149
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Constructs sartorially. :
SEWS 152
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"The promise of Odin." :
OATH 158
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Jewish resistance movement in Palestine. :
HAGANA 166
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"Brotherhood of Man," in practice. :
TOLERANCE 171
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India's anti-imperialist No. 1 leader. :
GANDHI 4
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Chinese string of 1,000 cash. :
TIAO 6
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World War II's biggest hematological boon. :
PLASMA 8
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Segment of arthropod's abdomen. :
URITE 12
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Tapering cylinder. :
CONE 15
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England's 30-year civil war, 1455-85. :
ROSES 17
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Sudden strategic political blow. :
COUP 19
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Joseph Vissarionovich. :
STALIN 21
No. 1 English blackshirt-fascist. :
MOSLEY 30
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Britain's gateway to empire. :
SUEZ 36
Robert Anthony ___. :
EDEN 38
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Invisible empire of terrorism. :
KLAN 45
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Large wading bird. :
IBIS 53
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Bleached from absence of sunlight. :
ETIOLATED 68
Convert to public ownership, as industry. :
SOCIALIZE 71
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Altar's direction, from the nave. :
EAST 105
Coast Guard woman recruit. :
SPAR 107
Military assistant. :
AIDE 110
Blueprinter of "Operation Crossroads." :
NAVY 112
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"Forty Days of ___ Dagh"—Franz Werfel. :
MUSA 122
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Name famous since May 28, 1934. :
DIONNE 137
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Of a potent source of atomic energy. :
URANIC 139
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Rousseau's hero, 1762. :
EMILE 145
Sound navigation and ranging. :
SONAR 146
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Nature and character of a people. :
ETHOS 151
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Fabulous white bird. :
ROC 165
Answer summary:9 unique to this puzzle , 36 debuted here and reused later , 17 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles .
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