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New York Times, Monday, May 2, 1960

34-Across : Pendants on crystal chandeliers.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { Q }, Scrabble score: 317 (avg 1.69)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
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© 1960, The New York TimesNo. 3,944
Across
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Soothing ointment. : BALM
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Lie. : FIB
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Telling argument. : POINT
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On the deep. : ASEA
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Old English money. : ORAS
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What "panzer" means. : ARMOR
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Sports enclosure. : RINK
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Haul. : CART
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Less presentable. : SEAMY
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Ball players. : BASERUNNERS
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Highway sign. : GAS
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___ boy. : BUS
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Street sign abbreviation. : AVE
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Indian lodge. : TENT
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Fine stationery. : LINEN
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Figuratively, life. : BREATH
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Admired greatly. : IDOLIZED
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Pendants on crystal chandeliers. : PRISMS
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Fine woolens. : MERINOS
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Cooking crock. : BEANPOT
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Family of American poets. : BENETS
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Flower. : MARIGOLD
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Elect. : VOTEIN
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Golf strokes. : PUTTS
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Good promise. : HOPE
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Inspected: Abbr. : EXD
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Doctrine. : ISM
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Shoemaker's tool. : AWL
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Take aim at. : DRAWABEADON
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Move sinuously. : SNAKE
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Kilkenny fighters. : CATS
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Lingo of swing. : JIVE
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Enter a port. : PUTIN
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Lively child: Colloq. : TYKE
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Holly genus. : ILEX
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Used up. : SPENT
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___ Luis Obispo. : SAN
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Encircled. : GIRT
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Sharp projection. : BARB
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Where the Yana flows. : ASIA
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Equipment on Tiros I. : LENS
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Specialty of childhood. : MAKEBELIEVE
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Concentrate on. : FOCUS
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Queen Farah's country. : IRAN
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College founded 1889. : BARNARD
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Situation, often pretty. : PASS
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Cuprite. : ORE
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Copy. : IMAGE
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Nobody. : NOMAN
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Rendezvous. : TRYST
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First name on TV. : STEVE
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Meet by chance. : RUNINTO
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Farm machine. : REAPER
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Cousin of a gimmick. : THINGUMAJIG
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Bough. : LIMB
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Notion: Fr. : IDEE
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Norse goddess of destiny. : NORN
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Egyptian god of pleasure. : BES
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Gadabout's walk. : TRAIPSE
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Girdle of ancient Greek costume. : ZOSTER
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Place. : SPOT
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Cast off, as skin. : MOLT
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Flags: Abbr. : STDS
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Prohibit. : BAN
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Fair concourses. : MIDWAYS
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Precise. : EXACT
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Metal clasps. : HASPS
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Confess frankly: Colloq. : OWNUP
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Photographer's item. : PLATE
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Creator of Rebecca West. : IBSEN
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Slight depression. : DENT
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Aleutian island. : ATKA
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Capital of Timor. : DILI
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Across. : OVER
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Nearest to. : NEXT
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Family. : KIN

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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