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New York Times, Friday, February 18, 1966

45-Across : Sweet singers.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
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© 1966, The New York TimesNo. 6,033
Across
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Inattentive. : DEAF
5
Shafts. : RODS
9
Power plays. : COUPS
14
Violin bow: It. : ARCO
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Latin exclamation. : EHEU
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Passageway. : AISLE
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In ___. : SITU
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Tells all. : COMESCLEAN
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Oyez! : HEARYE
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Flemish painter Jan van ___. : EYCK
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Pronoun: Ger. : UNS
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Dispossess. : OUST
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Pass. : ELAPSE
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Moss-grown. : OLDFASHIONED
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Navigation device. : LORAN
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Eleven: Fr. : ONZE
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Detail. : ITEM
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Where the Tigris flows. : IRAK
40
Victor and others. : HUGOS
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Numerical prefix. : MONO
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Region in China and Mongolia. : GOBI
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Contest, in ancient Greece. : AGON
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Geologic times. : AEONS
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Sweet singers. : NIGHTINGALES
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Slangy exclamation. : HOTDOG
51
Wood pile. : CORD
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Chemical suffix. : ANE
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"What's the ___?" : DIFF
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Aimless pencil work. : DOODLE
60
"No man ___ ... " : ISANISLAND
63
Tiergartens. : ZOOS
64
TV movie. : RERUN
65
Caen's river. : ORNE
66
Go over copy. : EDIT
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Kind. : STYLE
68
Garden intruder. : WEED
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Admonition to a tot. : NONO
Down
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Soupçon. : DASH
2
City in Pennsylvania. : ERIE
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___ part. : ACTA
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Poker holding. : FOUROFAKIND
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Time out. : RECESS
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Exclamation. : OHO
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Township of Attica. : DEME
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Chop ___. : SUEY
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Hen talk. : CACKLE
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Lessen friction. : OIL
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Exhaust. : USEUP
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Projects. : PLANS
13
Gumption. : SENSE
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Settings. : SCENES
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Former money of China. : YUAN
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All the same. : THOUGH
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Cheap. : ADIMEADOZEN
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Few: Prefix. : OLIG
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Monk parrot. : LORO
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Humdrum. : DRAB
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Unit of metal. : INGOT
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Of an air component. : OZONIC
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Cat's-paw : TOOL
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Nine: Prefix. : ENNE
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Small green plant. : MOSS
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Scot's pudding. : HAGGIS
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Soil: Prefix. : AGRO
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Antiseptic. : IODINE
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Acquiesced. : NODDED
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Pelt components. : HAIRS
49
Beginning. : ONSET
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Lachrymose. : TEARY
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Spring. : FLOW
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Taxi rider. : FARE
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Extinct bird. : DODO
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Cut of meat. : LOIN
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___ pertetua, Idaho's motto. : ESTO
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Not any: Law. : NUL
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Direction. : NNE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 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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