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New York Times, Friday, October 12, 1962

65-Across : Red Sea port.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 310 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,837
Across
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Miss Dartle. : ROSA
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Clownish one. : JAPER
10
A manner of speaking. : LISP
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Eight: Ger. : ACHT
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Bridge bid. : SPADE
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Noun suffix. : ENCE
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Travail. : CHILDBIRTH
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In the distance. : AFAR
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Poetic contraction. : EEN
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___ Room, White House salon. : EAST
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Salt of a certain acid. : IODATE
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Essay by Charles Lamb. : DREAMCHILDREN
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Querying sound. : HUH
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Exactly alike. : IDENTIC
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Track or trail. : SPOOR
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Heads of hair. : MANES
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Equal: Prefix. : ISO
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Cart puller. : PONY
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Hold sway. : REIGN
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Muse of history. : CLIO
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Quite. : ALL
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Sews together. : SEAMS
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Theme of the "Looking-glass" tale. : CHESS
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Host's phrase. : SAYWHEN
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Affirmative of a sort. : OUI
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Poem or play (with "The"). : CHILDRENSHOUR
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Gaseous hydrocarbon. : ETHANE
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Dickens character. : HEEP
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O. T. book: Abbr. : ISA
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Conceal. : VEIL
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One term for this puzzle. : CHILDSPLAY
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French pronoun. : ELLE
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Genus of the clothes moth. : TINEA
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Plant akin to the yucca. : SEGO
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Crayon colors. : REDS
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"Tell me a ___." : STORY
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Red Sea port. : ADEN
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Rushed. : RACED
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Dark yellow. : OCHER
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Excel. : SHINE
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An ocean: Abbr. : ATL
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Signature in music. : JSBACH
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Fantastically silly. : APISH
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Serial section. : PARTI
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Timetable abbreviation. : EDT
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Concealed again. : REHIDDEN
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Dull gray. : LEADEN
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Childish. : INFANTILE
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Shoo! : SCAT
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Garçon's dad. : PERE
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Object. : DEMUR
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Raw materials. : ORES
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Nautical cry. : AHOY
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Fish. : LINGS
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Egyptian deity. : ISIS
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Murmurs. : COOS
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Certain resorts. : SPAS
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First name in early movies. : POLA
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One without siblings. : ONLYCHILD
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"___ Juliet." : MEAND
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Purpose. : AIM
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Chooses again. : REELECTS
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Chinese foot, 14.1 in. : CHIH
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Climb (up). : SHIN
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Horns of the crescent moon. : CUSPS
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Certain mammals. : WHALES
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Sometime in the future. : ONEDAY
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Zoo feature. : RHINO
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Fisherman. : EELER
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Lubricated. : OILED
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Habit. : USAGE
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Dress material. : RAYON
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By any chance. : EVER
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Prefix with phone or graph. : TELE
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Baseball term. : HIT
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O. T. book: Abbr. : PSA

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

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