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New York Times, Saturday, November 5, 1960

44-Across : Handicap for a speaker.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { F J Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
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© 1960, The New York TimesNo. 4,131
Across
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Sequin. : SPANGLE
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Wearing. : GARBED
14
Kind of sale. : CLOSEOUT
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Disinclined. : AVERSE
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Paratroops are. : AIRBORNE
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Assistant to Jewish priest. : LEVITE
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___ fixe. : IDEE
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Scenic region of Canada. : GASPE
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Entry. : ITEM
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Noun suffix. : NESS
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Silkworm : ERIA
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Muscle Shoals agency. : TVA
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A Kennedy. : TED
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People of Graeco-Roman times (with "the"). : ANCIENTS
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Capers. : DIDOS
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Shore birds. : SNIPE
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1933 initials. : NRA
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Ballroom dance. : ONESTEP
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Ravens, in Scotland. : CORBIES
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Pray: Lat. : ORA
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Things in a cyclotron. : ATOMS
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Frames with hooks for hanging clothes. : RACKS
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Handicap for a speaker. : MONOTONE
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Part of a Scottish name. : MAC
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"Sunbonnet ___." : SUE
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Festive. : GALA
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One of the quick assets. : CASH
54
River in Arizona, site of Roosevelt dam. : SALT
56
Plant exudate. : RESIN
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Leigh Hunt character. : ABOU
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Rare base hit. : TRIPLE
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Convention voting regulation. : UNITRULE
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Came after. : ENSUED
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Gave to the press. : RELEASED
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Rowdydows. : SETTOS
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Legislated. : ENACTED
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___ rule. : SLIDE
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Studies hard (with "over"). : PORES
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Fireproof stuff. : ASBESTOS
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Modernist. : NEO
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Overate. : GORGED
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___ probe. : LUNAR
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Annual, as winds. : ETESIAN
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Stormy weather. : GALE
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Park or Fifth: Abbr. : AVE
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Flourish again. : REVIVE
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English. : BRITANNIC
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Family of Modena. : ESTE
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Suppose. : DEEM
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Second man. : CAIN
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Keeps (an audience) highly amused: Slang. : PANICS
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___ del Fuego. : TIERRA
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Possessions. : ESTATE
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Naval officer: Abbr. : CPO
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Journey of a sort. : TREK
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Garden vegetables: Dial. : SASS
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Condemn. : DOOM
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Japanese girdle box. : INRO
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Scholarship roster. : DEANSLIST
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Kind of cake. : SPONGE
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W. W. II letters. : ETO
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Card game. : BACCARAT
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Prescribed limit. : MEASURE
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Production. : OUTPUT
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Wrapping paper. : MANILA
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Fine stationary. : LINEN
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Vilification. : ABUSE
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Fixed shoes. : SOLED
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Having color. : HUED
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Canonized females: Abbr. : STES
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English composer. : ARNE
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Magenta and lake. : REDS
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Tolstoi. : LEO
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Private eye. : TEC

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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