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New York Times, Thursday, October 15, 1964

31-Across : Control.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
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© 1964, The New York TimesNo. 5,555
Across
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On the ___. : SHELF
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Egyptian makeup aids. : KOHLS
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Bowl sound. : RAH
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Adam's ale. : WATER
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Appeared. : AROSE
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Relative of a Paiute. : UTE
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Ridge: Fr. : ARETE
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Storytellers of a sort. : FABULISTS
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Exchanging. : BARTERING
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Part of a play. : ACTII
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When a shrimp whistles, for instance. : NEVER
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Production of 360 years ago. : OTHELLO
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Pointed. : SPIRED
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Honest ___. : ABE
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Lake formed by Hoover Dam. : MEAD
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Dickens. : BOZ
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Control. : REGULATE
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Glasses: Colloq. : SPECS
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Swiss canton. : URI
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___ circle. : INNER
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Trust. : RELIANCE
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Impatient exclamation. : OUF
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Part of a church. : APSE
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Election winners. : INS
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Bowers. : ARBORS
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Fetter. : MANACLE
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Man's name akin to Ursula. : ORSON
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Muse. : ERATO
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Feuds. : VENDETTAS
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Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey. : LAKEPOETS
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Pronoun. : THINE
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Chemical suffix. : IDE
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Kind of show. : RAREE
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Genus of mosquitoes. : AEDES
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Bronze: Lat. : AES
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Military experiment. : ATEST
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Tartan trousers. : TREWS
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Mop. : SWAB
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Kimball O'___, Kipling hero. : HARA
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Make immortal. : ETERNIZE
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Communication. : LETTER
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Style of writing. : FREEVERSE
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Afghanistan tribesman. : KAFIR
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Algerian port. : ORAN
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Robin Goodfellow. : HOBGOBLIN
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Southern campus. : LSU
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Psalm word. : SELAH
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Susurrus. : RUSTLE
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Hun. : ATTILA
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Greek poet of 8th cen. B.C. : HESIOD
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Ticket scalpers: Slang. : ICEMEN
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Counsel: Dial. : REDE
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Oolong. : TEA
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Science degrees. : SBS
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Potable. : POP
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Atmospheres. : AURAS
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Lerner and Loewe lady fair. : GUINEVERE
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The common folk, in France. : TIERSETAT
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Produce. : CREATE
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Poetic tide. : NOONTIDE
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Geographical abbreviation. : EUR
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Certain baseball players: Abbr. : RFS
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Girl's nickname. : LIL
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Jack, for one. : CARD
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Famous flier's first name. : AMELIA
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Torchlight ___. : PARADE
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Moves sinuously. : SNAKES
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Take the trouble. : BOTHER
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Dried coconut. : COPRA
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Start. : ONSET
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French seasons. : ETES
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Over again. : ANEW
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Meeting: Abbr. : SESS
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Grain. : OAT

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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