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H. M. Kennedy
H. M. Kennedy

New York Times, Thursday, October 16, 1975

35-Across : Half-and-half kind of drama

Author:
H. M. Kennedy
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { B F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
H. M. Kennedy has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,560
Across
1
Porsena : LARS
5
Chapter's partner : VERSE
10
Doctrines : ISMS
14
Templeton : ALEC
15
Misfortunes : EVILS
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Undiluted : NEAT
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Atlantic City attraction : PIER
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Fold over again : RELAP
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Narrative : TALE
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One of Rome's seven : PALATINE
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Pinkish color : MELON
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Pushover : PATSY
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Caesar's fatal month: Abbr. : MAR
25
Kind of soup : PEA
28
___ King Cole : NAT
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Ice-cream and beauty : PARLORS
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Receptacles : URNS
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Half-and-half kind of drama : SERIOCOMIC
37
Lamp rings : CRICS
39
Menu abbr. : VEG
40
___ Flow : SCAPA
41
"Seven ___!" : COMEELEVEN
44
Sea-speed limit : KNOT
45
Mideasterner : IRANIAN
46
Crew member : OAR
48
Kind of policy: Abbr. : INS
49
Suffix for differ : ENT
50
The opposition : ANTIS
52
Writer Clement Clarke : MOORE
55
Heavy hitters : THUMPERS
59
All: Prefix : OMNI
60
Grief : DOLOR
62
Latin-class word : ERAT
63
Rose of baseball : PETE
64
Climb : SCALE
65
French resort : NICE
66
Slaughter of baseball : ENOS
67
Ablative and genitive : CASES
68
Judge : DEEM
Down
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Northern European : LAPP
2
Inter ___ : ALIA
3
Movie unit : REEL
4
Break up : SCRAP
5
"In vino ___" : VERITAS
6
Tied : EVENSTEVEN
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Hoosier poet : RILEY
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Underground org. : SLA
9
Form of mind-reading : ESP
10
Dovetail : INTERLOCK
11
Ratify : SEAL
12
Saint ___ (Channel gulf) : MALO
13
Machine gun : STEN
21
Light color : TAN
22
Grape residues : MARCS
24
Chinese leader : MAO
25
Well-known designer : PUCCI
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Baseball statistic : ERROR
27
Soul : ANIMA
29
Put in File B : PIGEONHOLE
30
Muscat native : OMANI
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Wisconsin city : RIPON
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Shoos away : SCATS
34
Theater backdrops : SCENERIES
36
Accelerate : REV
38
French river : SEINE
42
School study: Abbr. : LAT
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Dispositions : NATURES
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___ the cup (miss a putt) : RIM
50
Reference book : ATLAS
51
Consume : SPEND
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Be listless : MOPE
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Augury : OMEN
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Aware of : ONTO
56
U. S. Indian : ERIE
57
Human or horse : RACE
58
Apple part : STEM
60
Mil. decoration : DSC
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Wood sorrel : OCA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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