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New York Times, Thursday, June 26, 1969

39-Across : Actress Elsie.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 326 (avg 1.76)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
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© 1969, The New York TimesNo. 7,257
Across
1
Dollar: Slang. : CLAM
5
Seal. : SIGIL
10
Hoover's helpers. : GMEN
14
Baltic gulf. : RIGA
15
Dispatch boat. : AVISO
16
Rodent. : HARE
17
Love, in Lima : AMAR
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Feline protest. : MIAOW
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Opera bit. : ARIA
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Certain experts. : MARKSMEN
22
Bettor's IOU. : MARKER
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Baubles. : TOYS
25
Port of Iraq. : BASRA
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In the ___. : SWIM
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Scratches. : MARKINGS
31
What veni means. : ICAME
32
Stall, with "out": Slang. : CONK
33
Social doing. : TEA
34
One of a pair. : MATE
35
Ducts. : FLUES
36
Time periods. : EONS
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Copy. : APE
38
Rows. : OARS
39
Actress Elsie. : JANIS
40
Price slash. : MARKDOWN
43
"___ sow ... " : ASYE
44
Nut parts. : MEATS
45
Kind of Susan. : LAZY
47
Old warning. : ALARUM
49
Ski novice's memento. : SITZMARK
53
Porsena. : LARS
54
"I wasn't there," for example. : ALIBI
56
Soviet lake. : ARAL
57
Tad. : TYKE
58
African badger. : RATEL
59
Netman Lacoste. : RENE
60
Parisian suburb. : ISSY
61
Showed obeisance. : KNELT
62
Smith. : KATE
Down
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Stuff. : CRAM
2
New World capital. : LIMA
3
Seaweed product. : AGAR
4
Wait. : MARKTIME
5
Davis. : SAMMY
6
Vines. : IVIES
7
Part of Menotti's name. : GIAN
8
Prefix for bar or tope. : ISO
9
D's and F's. : LOWMARKS
10
Indian carriage. : GHARRI
11
Caesar's friend. : MARKANTONY
12
Pennsylvania city. : ERIE
13
Close. : NEAR
21
___ fun! : SOME
23
Emulate Socrates. : ASK
25
Poisons. : BANES
26
___ Flow. : SCAPA
27
Philatelist's concerns. : WATERMARKS
28
Grieve. : MOURN
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Aladdin's friend. : GENIE
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Lip. : SASS
31
Islamic priest. : IMAM
32
Tears. : CLAWS
35
Clue on an Indian path. : FOOTMARK
36
Dupe. : EASYMARK
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Music form. : JAZZ
41
Woolen cloth. : KERSEY
42
Family member: Abbr. : DAU
45
Defamation. : LIBEL
46
With lance in hand. : ATILT
47
Prefix for meter or tude. : ALTI
48
Ballads. : LAYS
49
Place. : SITE
50
Disaster ___. : AREA
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Bombast. : RANT
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Swiss painter. : KLEE
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Chinese weight. : LAN

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5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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