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New York Times, Tuesday, June 20, 1967

17-Across : Perfect type.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { F J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,520
Across
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Minds. : OBEYS
6
Petrol. : GAS
9
Certain Buddhists. : LAMAS
14
Keep going. : RUNON
15
Baseball VIP. : UMP
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That is: Lat. : IDEST
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Perfect type. : BEAUIDEAL
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Holy city. : MECCA
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Letterhead abbreviation. : INC
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Field. : PASTURE
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Razorback. : HOG
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Relative of toodle-oo. : TATA
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Roads of old Rome. : ITERA
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Postern. : GATE
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Girl of song. : SAL
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Magyar. : UGRIAN
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Canine in the comics. : SNOOPY
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Bobolink. : REEDBIRD
38
Twister. : TORNADO
40
Business letter salutation. : DEARSIR
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City on Long Island. : GLENCOVE
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Jazz dance of the Twenties. : SHIMMY
44
Old codger. : GEEZER
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Cultivate. : HOE
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Caledonian. : SCOT
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A sister of Calliope. : ERATO
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Magic object of old tale. : LAMP
54
Steel measure. : TON
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Come into ___. : ONESOWN
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Estuary: Sp. : RIA
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Poppy product. : OPIUM
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Park specialty. : AMUSEMENT
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Middle Easterner. : IRANI
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Egyptian king, for short. : TUT
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Character in many fairy tales. : WITCH
65
Biblical verb. : CANST
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Govt. system. : SSS
67
Kilmer classic. : TREES
Down
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Space Age term. : ORBIT
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Good: Sp. : BUENA
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Portray. : ENACT
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Pronoun. : YOU
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Cut. : SNIP
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Caller. : GUEST
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Dilettante. : AMATEUR
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Embarked on a spending spree. : SPLURGED
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Linden tree. : LIME
10
American humorist. : ADE
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Engine parts. : MECHANISM
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Berkshire racecourse. : ASCOT
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Leg of a journey. : STAGE
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Gymnastics of a kind. : DAILYDOZEN
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Street performances. : RAREESHOWS
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"A moment's monument."—Rossetti. : ASONNET
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Evangeline's lost love. : GABRIEL
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Swiftly. : APACE
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Snake River country. : IDAHO
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Sterling: Abbr. : STG
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___-pros. : NOL
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Man from Klamath Falls. : OREGONIAN
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Brink. : RIM
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Uninteresting. : DRY
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Emulates a gourmand. : OVEREATS
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Dutch scholar and humanist. : ERASMUS
46
Impassive one. : STOIC
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Source of cocoanut oil. : COPRA
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Praises highly: Colloq. : TOUTS
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Relative of a hogback. : ARETE
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Kind of pie. : MINCE
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Trails. : PATHS
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Overlook. : OMIT
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Triton. : NEWT
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German pronoun. : UNS
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Village of old Russia. : MIR

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1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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