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New York Times, Friday, May 8, 1970

67-Across : Noble

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
David Steinberg notes:

Original 9-Down clue had "Field's"; changed this to "Fields's."

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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,573
Across
1
Sets upon : ASSAILS
8
Frowns : GLOWERS
15
Weld : TUESDAY
16
Royal symbols : REGALIA
17
Memorable teacher : MRCHIPS
18
Bandit : BRIGAND
19
New-math term : SET
20
East: Ger. : OST
21
Straying : ROVING
22
Dutch painter : STEEN
24
Urge : YEN
25
Dry : SEC
27
Face: Slang : MAP
29
___ tidings : GLAD
33
Machines : LATHES
36
Shakespearean hero : PROSPERO
39
Horns : ANTLERS
41
Pearls of great luster : ORIENTS
42
Passage of immigrant days : STEERAGE
44
Get lost! : BEATIT
45
Press agency : TASS
46
Craggy hill : TOR
48
Iowa college : COE
49
Egos' sources : IDS
52
Condition : SHAPE
55
Signify : DENOTE
58
W. W. II agency : OPA
59
Kind of tide : EBB
62
Asian capital : RANGOON
63
Czechoslovakian region : MORAVIA
65
Perfume : INCENSE
66
Factor in wit : BREVITY
67
Noble : PEERESS
68
Furtiveness : STEALTH
Down
1
Planetary gases: Abbr. : ATMS
2
Natch : SURE
3
Denomination : SECT
4
Tree : ASH
5
Dostoevski novel, with "The" : IDIOT
6
Error : LAPSE
7
Things to beat : SYSTEM
8
United Kingdom: Abbr. : GRBR
9
Baby in W. C. Fields's life : LEROY
10
Arch : OGIVE
11
Eisenhower volume : WAGINGPEACE
12
Ardor : ELAN
13
Opera cycle : RING
14
Deplorable : SAD
22
Presidential biographer : SCHLESINGER
23
Downy surface : NAP
25
___ Vittoria : SANTA
26
Diminutive suffixes : ETTES
28
Not a tyro : PRO
30
Slow, in music : LENTO
31
Man's nickname : ARTIE
32
Biblical verb : DOST
33
Shoe form : LAST
34
Poetic word : EER
35
Spanish lady: Abbr. : SRA
37
Sphere : ORB
38
She: Ger. : SIE
40
N.C.O. : SGT
43
Dawn goddess : EOS
47
Geometry figures : RHOMBS
50
Blackmore heroine : DOONE
51
On the glacial side : STOSS
53
Ship direction : APORT
54
Gay place : PAREE
55
Borge or Andersen : DANE
56
Noun ending : ENCE
57
Chemical suffixes : ENES
59
Bad : EVIL
60
Bollard : BITT
61
Birch : BAYH
62
Kind of saw : RIP
64
Gardner : AVA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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