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New York Times, Monday, February 22, 1960

66-Across : Catches.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.46, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
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© 1960, The New York TimesNo. 3,874
Across
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Thinly distributed. : SPARSE
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March 21st arrival. : SPRING
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Rooftop devices. : AERIALS
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Fields for gladiators. : ARENAE
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George Washington and others. : BRIDGES
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Annul. : RESCIND
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___ Maria. : AVE
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Dutch cheese. : EDAM
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Eyer. : STARER
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On this side of: Prefix. : CIS
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Church council. : SYNOD
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Part of N. B. : NOTA
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Extreme. : ULTRA
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Part of a calyx. : SEPAL
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Storage crib. : BIN
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Oil-yielding seeds. : SESAME
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Unbranded animal. : MAVERICK
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Serenaders' instruments. : MANDOLINS
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Country visited by Eisenhower. : PAKISTAN
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Parts. : SEVERS
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Cuckoo. : ANI
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Cum grano ___ (with a grain of salt): Lat. : SALIS
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Mother Goose character. : SPRAT
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Wayside and others. : INNS
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Connecting parts. : NECKS
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Little ___. : EVA
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Caroled again. : RESANG
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In ___ (in position): Lat. : SITU
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New England school: Abbr. : MIT
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Namesakes of Mr. Pickwick. : SAMUELS
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Steam roller, for example. : MACHINE
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Tears: Fr. : LARMES
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Directed. : PILOTED
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Hair nets. : SNOODS
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Catches. : SNARES
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Obsequious. : SERVILE
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Men of the cloth. : PRIESTS
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Succor. : AID
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Frenzy. : RAGE
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Coasters. : SLEDS
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Trials. : ESSAYS
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Italian island: Abbr. : SAR
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One way of naming a Civil War statesman. : PRESDAVIS
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Pause. : REST
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Indian. : INCAN
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Capital of Kenya. : NAIROBI
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Pertaining to evolution or heredity. : GENETIC
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Device for doing arithmetic. : ABACUS
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Joined in a toast. : DRANK
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Science of improving the memory. : MNEMONICS
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Birthstone for October. : OPAL
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Branches: Biol. : RAMI
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Hoard. : AMASS
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Smooth consonants, in phonetics. : LENES
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Snarled. : ENTANGLED
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Request on invitation. : RSVP
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Dingle. : DALE
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Matches. : PAIRS
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Heats, as glass, to fix colors. : ANNEALS
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Relative. : KINSMAN
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Religious recluse. : EREMITE
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Mountain gorges. : RAVINES
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Set forth clearly. : STATED
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Doles out stingily. : SKIMPS
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Lizard: Comb. form. : SAURO
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Pigment. : STAIN
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Fictional captain. : NEMO
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Western campus. : UCLA
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Military group: Abbr. : SSS
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Mountain of Aaron's tomb. : HOR

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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