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New York Times, Thursday, May 28, 1970

61-Across : Last syllable

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { Y }, Scrabble score: 307 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 87, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,593
Across
1
Afternoon pick-me-up : APERITIF
9
Go this way and that : ZIGZAG
15
Tear roughly : LACERATE
16
New York lake : ONEIDA
17
Coastal region : LITTORAL
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Indian Ocean gulf : MANNAR
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Sign of a hit : SRO
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Little Eleanor : NELL
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European badgers : BROCKS
22
Irish luck : CESS
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Kind of cotton : PIMA
24
Repudiate : ABJURE
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Liquefy by heat : FUSE
28
___ jure? : QUO
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Rummage : ROUT
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Word under a red light : EXIT
34
Intimidate : DAUNT
36
Function : ROLE
37
"Moll Flanders" author : DEFOE
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___ yourself : DOIT
40
On the qui vive : ALERT
42
Hur and others : BENS
43
Little thing : MITE
44
Enervate : SAP
45
Important nights : EVES
47
Morning glory, for one : TWINER
49
Secular : LAIC
50
Trumpeter Al : HIRT
51
Nautical ropes : SHEETS
54
Branches : RAMI
55
Church title : FRA
58
Go one better : OUTWIT
59
Of an area of Turkey : ANATOLIC
61
Last syllable : ULTIMA
62
Enzyme : ESTERASE
63
Hesitations : PAUSES
64
Alternated : SEESAWED
Down
1
Contraction in Shakespeare title : ALLS
2
Shoes or stockings : PAIR
3
Prefix for plasm : ECTO
4
Send back: Abbr. : RET
5
Mangle : IRONER
6
Darnel kernel : TARESEED
7
Styles of type: Abbr. : ITALS
8
What Jack did : FELL
9
Tall rum drinks : ZOMBIS
10
Embraced : INARMED
11
Rival of Pisa and Venice : GENOA
12
Metallic element : ZINC
13
Island off Alaska : ADAK
14
Destructive fishes : GARS
22
Like one's own baby : CUTER
23
Don : PUTON
24
Wall hanging : ARRAS
25
Word in a college song : BOOLA
26
Derby drink : JULEP
27
They go with drums : FIFES
28
Wedgelike piece of stone : QUOIN
29
Be as one : UNITE
30
Badger's relative : OTTER
33
Medit. vessel : XEBEC
35
Confess : ADMIT
38
Early word on TV repair cost : ESTIMATE
41
Four o'clock, to some : TEATIME
46
Outlooks : VISTAS
48
Pens : WRITES
49
Trailblazer with Clark : LEWIS
50
Early guild: Var. : HANSE
51
Heavy fog : SOUP
52
Dance : HULA
53
Caesar's words : ETTU
54
Name for girls : RAES
55
Gust of wind : FLAW
56
Get up : RISE
57
Scored a point : ACED
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___ pro nobis : ORA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 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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