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New York Times, Thursday, November 12, 1970

23-Across : Makes friends

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 82, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.56, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 393 (avg 2.10)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,761
Across
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Turner : LANA
5
Candy : TAFFY
10
Circle of water : MOAT
14
Animals : OXEN
15
Banish : EXILE
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Time ___ half : ANDA
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Linen fiber : FLAX
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Link : NEXUS
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Designations for secret papers of 1790's : XYZS
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So-so : TEPID
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Application-blank query : SEX
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Makes friends : MIXES
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Audience : EAR
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Slacken : RELAX
28
Helped : ABETTED
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___ yellow leaf (old age) : SEREAND
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Crafty : FOXY
37
Army V.I.P. : GEN
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Doctor's instrument : XYSTER
40
Live : ARE
41
Ship wrecked off U.S. in 1928 : VESTRIS
43
Gardner : AVA
44
José's operatic victim : CARMEN
46
Ad ___ : HOC
47
Beaver skin : PLEW
48
Lengths : EXTENTS
50
Vexes : BOTHERS
52
Mastodon features : TUSKS
54
Recent: Prefix : NEO
55
Historian's concerns : DATES
58
Querying words : EHS
60
Medit. ship : XEBEC
64
Resembling: Suffix : ULAR
65
Seat : STOOL
67
Defendant's plea : NOLO
68
___-Coburg : SAXE
69
Florida city : OCALA
70
Corn lily : IXIA
71
Tennyson lady : ENID
72
Garden flowers : PHLOX
73
Roman portico : XYST
Down
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Attic : LOFT
2
Shaft : AXLE
3
Certain tide : NEAP
4
Care : ANXIETY
5
Commandment number : TEN
6
Cuts : AXES
7
Jack-of-all-trades : FIXER
8
Melts : FLUXES
9
Kind of man : YES
10
Brazilian dances : MAXIXES
11
Cameo stone : ONYX
12
Dressing tool : ADZE
13
Russian agency : TASS
21
Grammar case: Abbr. : DAT
23
Queen of Scots et al. : MARYS
25
Rulers : REGENTS
27
Wordbook : LEXICON
28
In front : AFACE
29
Cleansing agent : BORAX
30
Put into action : EXERT
31
___ Plaines : DES
33
Part of a Dickens title : ATALE
34
Emphatic negation : NEVER
35
Attracts : DRAWS
38
Indefinite degree : NTH
41
Planet : VENUS
42
Plunder : ROB
45
Like household gas or water : METERED
47
Western capital : PHOENIX
49
Draft : SKETCH
51
Lone-Star nickname : TEX
53
Marine hazard : SHOAL
55
Eleonora of stage : DUSE
56
King or Ladd : ALAN
57
Urban vehicle : TAXI
59
Kind of flight : SOLO
61
Squarish : BOXY
62
Yale men : ELIS
63
Layer : COAT
65
Bribe : SOP
66
Negligent : LAX

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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