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New York Times, Monday, May 18, 1959

64-Across : Small, valuable object.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J W X }, Scrabble score: 309 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,594
Across
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Ferret's relative. : POLECAT
8
Poem by Poe. : LENORE
14
Salad fruit. : AVOCADO
15
Famous chief of O. S. S. : DONOVAN
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Israel's neighbor. : LEBANON
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Colonial orator. : EVERETT
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Charlie's friend Mortimer. : SNERD
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Well-known locksmith. : YALE
21
Poinciana, for example. : TREE
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Son of Odin. : TYR
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Character in "Middlemarch." : GARTH
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Market. : SALE
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Discoverer of heavy hydrogen. : UREY
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Got up. : AROSE
35
Metal: Poet. : ORE
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Exact. : TRUE
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Required size for any voting group. : QUORUM
38
Pakistan Prince at U. N. : ALYKHAN
40
Believe to be. : SUPPOSE
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Gasoline, in Britain. : PETROL
42
South Korean notable. : RHEE
43
Actress Merriman. : NAN
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Scornful expression. : SNEER
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Actress Alice. : FAYE
46
Central American country: Abbr. : HOND
47
Deprive of weapons. : UNARM
49
Where to mail a letter: Abbr. : GPO
51
Baltic native. : LETT
54
Roman ___. : NOSE
56
Mechanical being. : ROBOT
60
Female warriors. : AMAZONS
62
Fictional doctor. : ZHIVAGO
64
Small, valuable object. : BIBELOT
65
Pharaoh of Exodus. : RAMESES
66
Firm. : STURDY
67
Accumulates. : AMASSES
Down
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Chums. : PALS
2
Part of a range. : OVEN
3
Ear ___. : LOBE
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Game in which the king is high. : ECARTE
5
Fudge. : CANDY
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Trouble. : ADO
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Emmy's relative. : TONY
8
Romeo. : LOVER
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Compass point. : ENE
10
Author of "The Meeting of East and West." : NORTHROP
11
Up to and including. : OVER
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At any ___ (anyway). : RATE
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Grafted, in heraldry. : ENTE
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Postponement. : DELAY
20
Pulitzer Prize novelist, 1958. : AGEE
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Of the country. : RURAL
25
Mole color. : TAUPE
26
Lathers. : SOAPS
27
Author of "The Green Hat." : ARLEN
28
Island of the Philippines. : LEYTE
30
Go swiftly. : RUN
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College town in Maine. : ORONO
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Lazy ___. : SUSAN
34
Correct. : EMEND
36
Prickly shrub. : THORN
37
Character in "The Caine Mutiny." : QUEEG
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Beethoven sonata. : KREUTZER
40
Fling. : SHY
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Ovine animals. : RAMS
45
American poet. : FROST
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Equine feet. : HOOVES
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Bother. : ANNOY
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___ donna. : PRIMA
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Physics workrooms. : LABS
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Send out. : EMIT
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Prohibition. : TABU
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Old Testament book. : EZRA
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Perchlike fish. : BASS
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Pointed arch. : OGEE
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Fling. : TOSS
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Former. : OLD
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Meat. : HAM

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

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