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New York Times, Thursday, December 10, 1964

25-Across : Trifling.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { F J }, Scrabble score: 329 (avg 1.72)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 2, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
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© 1964, The New York TimesNo. 5,611
Across
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Minnesota's specialty. : LAKES
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Not up. : ABED
10
Row of articles. : TIER
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In action. : ALIVE
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2nd cen. date. : CLII
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Nullify. : UNDO
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Advice akin to 61 Across. : TOWATCHONESSTEP
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Fraternity letter. : CHI
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Opera feature. : DUET
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Rhubarb's relative. : HASSLE
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Negative verb. : HASNOT
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Trifling. : SMALL
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Is beholden (to). : OWES
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Famous French family. : ORLEANS
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Use experimentally. : TRYON
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English novelist. : HARDY
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Amusing one. : WIT
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Golfer's problem. : HOOK
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French painter. : DEGAS
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Equine. : PONY
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Noxious kind of weed. : RAG
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Does a chef's job. : BAKES
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Common mosquito. : CULEX
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Not heeding. : UNAWARE
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Hosiery trouble. : SNAG
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Linen braid. : INKLE
51
Synthetic. : ERSATZ
55
Instanter. : ATONCE
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Lighter. : SCOW
60
Buck's opposite. : DOE
61
Admonition dating from the 1600's. : MINDONESPSANDQS
64
In ___. : TOTO
65
And others: Lat. : ETAL
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Seek talent. : SCOUT
67
Mountain cap. : SNOW
68
Calendar units. : DAYS
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Bread spread. : HONEY
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Fastening. : LATCH
2
Type of gay sport shirt. : ALOHA
3
New Zealand birds. : KIWIS
4
Stowe heroine. : EVA
5
Enter in writing : SETDOWN
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Yearn painfully. : ACHE
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Dries, in a way. : BLOTS
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German article. : EIN
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Stubborn ones. : DIEHARDS
10
Scuffle. : TUSSLE
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Certain verbs: Abbr. : INTS
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Pulitzer prize biographer. : EDEL
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Hawser. : ROPE
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Attractive. : CUTE
19
Quip. : SALLY
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Corner. : NOOK
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Swamp. : MORASS
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Biblical coin. : SHEKEL
30
Military term. : AWOL
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The Muses. : NINE
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Where Charon plies. : STYX
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By way of. : THRU
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Of horses, a color. : ROAN
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Hindu discipline. : YOGA
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A long time. : AGE
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Clouded. : DARKENED
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Dogs. : PUGS
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Monte Carlo term. : BANCO
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Filling-station service. : CARWASH
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Type of envelope. : WINDOW
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Modern ones. : NEOS
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Literary piece. : ESSAY
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Append. : ADDON
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Chapeau. : TOQUE
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Piquant. : ZESTY
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Counties, in Denmark. : AMTS
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Common suffix. : TION
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Upon. : ONTO
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Army men. : CPLS
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Airline abbreviation. : ETA
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See 59 Down. : NCO

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

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