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New York Times, Monday, November 23, 1970

45-Across : Pipe tool

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.76, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,772
Across
1
Mythical fluid : ICHOR
6
___ artium : ARS
9
Wild driver : JEHU
13
Color : TAUPE
14
Tide movement : FLOW
15
Harem rooms : ODAS
16
Mountain crest : ARETE
17
Vapor: Prefix : ATMO
18
Wood tool : ADZE
19
Certain Sundays : FATHERSDAYS
22
Social groups : SISTERHOODS
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All : ENTIRE
27
Planned : MAPPED
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Drinks : ADES
33
Golconda : MINE
36
River in Tell's land : AARE
37
Ex-gridman Walker : DOAK
38
Wagnerian god : WOTAN
39
Fold : WRAP
40
Architectural fillet : ORLE
41
Check-payer : HOST
42
El ___ : PASO
43
See 45 Down : GESTAE
45
Pipe tool : REAMER
47
Wild thyme : BROTHERWORT
51
Famous narrator : MOTHERGOOSE
55
Exchange rate : AGIO
56
Rainbow : IRIS
57
Dictation : NOTES
62
Important age : TEEN
63
Fish : EELS
64
Molding : OVOLO
65
Companion to now : HERE
66
Leaky noise : SSS
67
Handle : WIELD
Down
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Is ___ promise? : ITA
2
Stanley, for one : CAR
3
Vietnamese port : HUE
4
Elect : OPT
5
Heavy jacket : REEFER
6
Notwithstanding: Var. : ALTHO
7
Montague : ROMEO
8
Fencers, old style : SWORDMEN
9
Okie family name : JOAD
10
Countess Ciano : EDDA
11
Dim : HAZY
12
Applications : USES
14
Paris designer : FATH
20
Metric measure : ARE
21
U.S. pension org. : SSA
22
Fogbow : SEADOG
23
City in India : INDORE
24
Filches : STEALS
25
Tasket's cousin : TISKET
28
Tree with banana-like fruit : PAWPAW
29
Andean plateau : PARAMO
30
School item : ERASER
31
Conduct oneself : DEPORT
33
Bucolic sound : MOO
34
"___ no use!" : ITS
35
King Cole : NAT
38
Light boats : WHERRIES
44
Daisy Mae's son : ABE
45
With 43 Across, legal acts : RES
46
Heretofore, in poems : ERENOW
48
Monsters : OGRES
49
Entanglements : TOILS
50
One to a shay : HOSS
51
School subject : MATH
52
S-shaped molding : OGEE
53
Row : TIER
54
Sharpen : HONE
58
Egg: Prefix : OVI
59
Kind of hold : TOE
60
Building part : ELL
61
Turf : SOD

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 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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