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New York Times, Friday, May 31, 1963

8-Across : Pleasure carriage.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 28, Avg Word Len: 5.63, Missing: { J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 90, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
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© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 5,052
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Compound of different things. : AMALGAM
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Pleasure carriage. : CHAISE
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American heritage. : LIBERTY
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Hotel employes. : DOORMEN
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Piano keyboard. : CLAVIER
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A cheeky success. : UPSTART
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Outsider. : ALIEN
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Summer's shade. : TREES
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Render imperfect. : MAR
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Liz in Germany. : LISE
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The average coffee. : BLEND
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The average man. : PAPA
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Female animal. : DOE
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Usher inside. : SEEIN
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Slipper fabric. : SATIN
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Adorn. : ENRICH
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Most tempting. : TASTIEST
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Housewife's stand-by. : TRADESMAN
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Achiever of a goal. : ATTAINER
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2,200-mile river to the Ob. : IRTISH
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Young pup. : WHELP
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Objectionable. : NASTY
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Expert at figures. : CPA
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Ethereal. : AERY
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Term in the army. : HITCH
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Retail. : SELL
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Stood for office. : RAN
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Ground-breaker, for short. : DOZER
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Half pint: Colloq. : SPLIT
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Shelf-stand for bric-a-brac. : ETAGERE
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One of the seven deadly sins. : AVARICE
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Bobolink. : ORTOLAN
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Spacecraft that passed Venus. : MARINER
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Without effectiveness. : FEEBLE
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Experienced hands. : STAGERS
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Spanish mayor. : ALCALDE
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A very large number. : MILLION
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Ivory black. : ABAISER
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Flood wall. : LEVEE
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Response to a joke. : GRIN
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Gobbled up. : ATE
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Flower-and-berry evergreen. : MYRTLE
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Managed to deal with. : COPED
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Quadruped, Western style. : HOSS
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School course. : ART
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Domain of a sort. : IMAMATE
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Ship defeated by John Paul Jones. : SERAPIS
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Contestant. : ENTRANT
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Chaperones. : DUENNAS
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Din repeatedly. : REITERATE
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The Borstal Boy himself. : BEHAN
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Horse of a different color. : PAINT
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Emergency paper money. : SCRIP
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Bug-eyed. : STARY
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Part of the grand tour. : ITALY
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A worker at any trade. : SMITH
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Inhabitant. : DENIZEN
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Knowing about. : AWAREOF
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Newspaper section. : THEATRE
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In threes, as leaves. : TERNATE
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Graph mark between frozen and liquid water. : ICELINE
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Rope mender. : SPLICER
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Women's garments. : HALTERS
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Vamooses. : SCRAMS
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Goddesses of the seasons. : HORAE
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Piece of parsley. : SPRIG
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Natural hollow. : DELL
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F.D.R.'s mother. : SARA
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Sailor: Slang. : GOB
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Tank. : VAT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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