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New York Times, Saturday, October 1, 1966

14-Across : Old Venetian medal.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 334 (avg 1.79)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
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© 1966, The New York TimesNo. 6,258
Across
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Three lines that rhyme. : TERCET
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Situation. : JOB
10
Stake. : PALE
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Old Venetian medal. : OSELLA
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Boat man. : OAR
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School: Abbr. : ACAD
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Special-purpose cutter. : STEAKKNIFE
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Dilute. : THIN
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Consecrated. : HOLY
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Period akin to a blue moon. : EON
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Global area. : AFRICA
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Tops. : BEST
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Hank. : SKEIN
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___ Flow. : SCAPA
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Red. : RUBY
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Menacing sound. : GRR
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Diverted. : TURNED
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Height: Prefix. : ACR
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Relative of a vita. : BIO
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English version of Vergil dictum. : SNAKEINTHEGRASS
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Formicary dweller. : ANT
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Low. : MOO
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Smart-___. : ALECKY
43
New York city. : RYE
44
View from Warwick castle. : AVON
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Tightly curled. : KINKY
46
Colophony. : ROSIN
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Ecclesiastic. : ABBE
49
Writer of the third Gospel. : STLUKE
51
Reddish element: Abbr. : CPR
52
"And away ___!" : WEGO
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Exclamations of triumph. : AHAS
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Bakery items. : WHITECAKES
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Comb. : RAKE
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Away from. : OUT
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Francis. : ARLENE
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Baltic port. : KIEL
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Little fishes. : FRY
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Love's companions. : KISSES
Down
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Buncombe. : TOSH
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This: Sp. : ESTO
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Dance. : REEL
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Type of road shoulder. : CLAYBANK
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Shoe leather. : ELK
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Is unenthusiastic about. : TAKESADIMVIEWOF
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Meet. : JOIN
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Gawk. : OAF
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Tennyson poem. : BREAKBREAKBREAK
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Prefix, with arch or mony. : PATRI
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Result of hard work. : ACHINGBACK
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Secular. : LAIC
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First name in fiction. : EDNA
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"I should say ___!" : NOT
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Puckish. : FEY
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Foil's cousin. : EPEE
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So much. : SUCH
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Bright. : SUNNY
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National Park. : CRATERLAKE
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Mouse: Sp. : RATON
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Hazardous. : RISKY
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Optimistic. : ROSY
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Ruler. : TSAR
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Twelve. : NOON
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Fast-talking. : GLIB
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Some subscriptions. : RENEWALS
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Beg. : ASK
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European thrush. : OUSEL
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Prone. : APT
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Channel island. : SARK
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Siamese. : THAI
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Home of the slickers. : CITY
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Stretches (out). : EKES
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Factor. : GENE
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Chemical suffixes. : OSES
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Hero of 1880 novel. : HUR
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Dernier ___. : CRI

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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