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New York Times, Tuesday, December 22, 1953

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { F J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12, Grid flow: 43.0
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,638
Across
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Wall Street operator. : BEAR
5
Bakery. : SHOP
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Meeting place of serious students. : LIBE
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River north of Paris. : OISE
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Nuts yielding caffeine. : KOLAS
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Relative of Agnes. : INEZ
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Bestseller about the Air Force (with "The"). : BRIDGESATTOKORI
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Mariners. : SEADOGS
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Napoleon's Austrian victory, 1800. : MARENGO
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Kind of wear in a haberdashery. : MENS
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Members of the "Fighting Sixth." : MARINES
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Ancient classic. : ILIAD
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Seaport of eastern Scotland. : DUNDEE
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U. S. envoy to Madrid. : DUNN
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Concealed. : HID
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Destroyed. : UNDONE
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Year: Spanish. : ANO
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Person using adroit but fallacious reasoning. : SOPHIST
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Sight: French. : VUE
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Where to catch trout. : STREAM
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Time zone: Abbr. : EST
40
Madison Square Garden item. : BELL
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Creator of Uncle Toby. : STERNE
43
In the near future. : EARLY
44
Stores on the farm. : ENSILES
46
The year "King Lear" was first played. : MDCV
47
Showed contempt. : SNEERED
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Wassail holder. : TANKARD
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Southern industrial area. : TENNESSEEVALLEY
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British composer. : ARNE
54
Rest home in Ankara. : SERAI
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English river. : OUSE
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___ de Boulogne, park on outskirts of Paris. : BOIS
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Last word of a Hemingway title. : ARMS
58
Comes by. : GETS
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Hair-dos of the 1920's. : BOBS
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Country with many bachelors. : EIRE
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Part of the globe. : ASIAMINOR
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Dr. Hewlett Johnson. : REDDEAN
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Parts of keels. : SKEGS
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Autry's Champion. : HOSS
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Palm leaf. : OLA
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Texas Congressman. : PATMAN
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Compared. : LIKENED
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Three ___. : INONE
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Pieces of glaciers. : BERGS
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Italian man's name. : EZIO
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One of Crosby's favorites. : STARDUST
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Indian native. : GOND
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Tibet, Nepal, Burma, etc. : ORIENT
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Coots or gallinules. : MUDHENS
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Mrs. Cantor and others. : IDAS
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One of a famous acting team. : LUNT
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Slope down. : DIP
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"Send these, the ___, tempest-tost to me ... " : HOMELESS
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Estimate too highly. : OVERVALUE
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Of no value. : NULL
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Slithery. : EELY
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Branch of literature. : SATIRE
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Honshu bay. : ISE
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Ancient cenobites. : ESSENES
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Unfilled orders, for instance. : BACKLOG
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Waterway of Biblical fame. : REDSEA
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Miss Ferber. : EDNA
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January in Buenos Aires. : ENERO
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Italian left-wing Socialist. : NENNI
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European song thrush. : MAVIS
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Attempt: Colloq. : STAB
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Word in a college cheer. : TEAM
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Lie fallow. : REST
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Aniline products. : DYES
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Do wrong. : ERR

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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