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New York Times, Friday, October 29, 1965

9-Across : Brief light.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
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© 1965, The New York TimesNo. 5,921
Across
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American League team. : NATS
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And the like, Latin style. : ETAL
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Brief light. : GLEAM
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"I began to smell ___."—Cervantes. : ARAT
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Traditional knowledge. : LORE
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Zodiac sign. : LIBRA
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Architectural feature. : DOME
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Part of 19 Across. : MEAT
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Make ___ of. : AMEAL
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Current best seller. : ISPARISBURNING
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McGuffey's best seller. : READER
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Ancient Scot. : PICT
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Part of a Perry Mason title. : CASE
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Mason's aide and others. : DELLAS
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Tilted. : ALIST
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Notion: Fr. : IDEE
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Bridge position. : EAST
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Current best seller (with "The"). : LOOKINGGLASSWAR
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Liqueur glass. : PONY
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Indefinite pronoun. : ONES
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Groups: Abbr. : ASSNS
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Produces. : SPAWNS
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Unit of card games. : DEAL
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Vex. : ROIL
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Part of password. : SESAME
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Mary Stewart's best seller. : THISROUGHMAGIC
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Greek letter. : THETA
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Suffix with idiom or system. : ATIC
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French composer. : LALO
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City on the Rhine. : BASEL
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19th century editor. : DANA
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Face shape. : OVAL
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Delusion's companion. : SNARE
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Mongolian tribeman. : SHAN
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Barcelona baby. : NENE
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Perigee. : NADIR
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Subject of G. Stein definition. : AROSE
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Florida seaport. : TAMPA
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Suffix with home or road. : STEAD
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N. Y. women's college. : ELMIRA
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Ten digits. : TOES
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Meccan. : ARAB
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Surcease. : LETUP
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Flash. : GLANCE
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Infinite. : LIMITLESS
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Scrooge, for short. : EBEN
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One of a poetic trio. : ARAG
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Prefix with content. : MAL
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Straight: Prefix. : RECTI
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"___ cockhorse ... " : RIDEA
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Vestige. : SIGN
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Sidled. : EDGED
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Rules. : LAWS
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Wise ___ owl. : ASAN
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Ships: Abbr. : STRS
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Grand Combin and others. : ALPS
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Part of Chicago. : LOOP
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Hebrides isle. : IONA
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Advertiser of a sort. : SKYWRITER
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Otherwise. : ELSE
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Polite denial. : NOSIR
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Western capital. : SALEM
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Slangy denial. : NOSALE
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Part of the street scene. : ASHCAN
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Burdens. : LOADS
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Place for a soirée. : SALON
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Century plant. : AGAVE
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Musical center in Europe. : MILAN
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Place for "les enfants." : ECOLE
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Word used with more or less. : THAN
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"For ___ jolly good fellow ... " : HESA
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Deseret. : UTAH
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Lollobrigida. : GINA
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Cook's abbreviation. : TBS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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