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New York Times, Thursday, April 20, 1961

1-Across : Humble abode.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { B F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
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© 1961, The New York TimesNo. 4,297
Across
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Humble abode. : SHACK
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Swaying motion. : ROLL
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Embankment. : DIKE
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Table beverage. : COCOA
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Wheeling's waterfront. : OHIORIVER
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Plant of the lily family. : ONION
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Citizens of Billings. : MONTANANS
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Mated. : WED
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Belgian city. : SPA
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Popular punster-comedian. : DURANTE
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Châlons' river. : MARNE
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Japanese coins. : SEN
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Certain language specialists. : LATINISTS
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Insignia. : STARS
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"O, for ___ with wings!" : AHORSE
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Direction. : EAST
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Modern Pooh-Bah. : VIP
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Peel. : PARE
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Lively, noisy frolic. : SPREE
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Russian river. : NEVA
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Perch. : SIT
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Astound. : STUN
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More fruitless. : VAINER
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Put together. : ERECT
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Mongol conqueror. : TAMERLANE
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Household god. : LAR
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Peter of Hollywood. : LORRE
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Israelite tribesmen. : DANITES
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___ culpa (my fault): Lat. : MEA
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Thus. : SIC
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Contemporary times. : ATOMICAGE
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Crude fellow. : YAHOO
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Nero Wolfe's forte. : DETECTION
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African animal. : ELAND
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Certain persons. : ONES
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Negative verbal contraction. : ISNT
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American library pioneer. : DEWEY
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Freight boat. : SCOW
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Sharpen. : HONE
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Sharp. : ACID
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Bird call. : COO
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Midwesterners. : KANSANS
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New Testament book. : ROMANS
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Exclamation. : OHO
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Swedish "songbird." : LIND
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Emblem of Egypt. : LOTUS
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Town on the Meuse. : DINANT
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Feodor's father. : IVAN
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Where Canterbury is. : KENT
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Gaelic. : ERSE
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Most excellent. : RAREST
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Father. : PRIEST
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Slush. : MIRE
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Unchangeable. : ETERNAL
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Slight error. : LAPSE
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Not turn ___ (stay calm and unruffled). : AHAIR
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Fancy German cake. : TORTE
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Engineers' group: Abbr. : SAE
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Genus of oats. : AVENA
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Split apart. : RIVEN
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Bowling score. : SPARE
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Extremely plain in style. : SEVERE
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Place. : PUT
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Where 9 Down grows. : NILE
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Inactive. : STATIC
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Placed in order. : ARRAYED
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Regions: Poet. : CLIMES
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Importance. : MOMENT
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Straight: Comb. form. : RECTI
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Wall part. : DADO
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Egyptian solar disk. : ATEN
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Communication. : NOTE
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Je ne ___ quoi. : SAIS
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Name adopted by T. E. Lawrence. : SHAW
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Girl's name. : IONE
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Buffalo Bill's name. : CODY
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Combining form used with tetra, penta, etc. : GON
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Pub order. : ALE

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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