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New York Times, Saturday, June 30, 1973

68-Across : "Where ignorance is ___ ... "

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 45, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { C J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 58, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
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© 1973, The New York TimesNo. 8,722
Across
1
" ... equal right ___ and women" : OFMEN
6
Brood : MOPE
10
Over the ___ : TOP
13
Composure : POISE
14
Periods : ERAS
15
___ and cry : HUE
16
College terms : TRIMESTERS
18
Used up : ATE
19
Wrong: Prefix : MIS
20
Harem room : ODA
21
Bar legally : ESTOP
23
Latin-class word : AMO
24
Inflammable substance : NAPALM
28
Cans : TINS
29
Oslo, for one : FIORD
31
Rodeo items : NOOSES
33
Panama, for one: Abbr. : ISTH
34
One who complains : GROUSER
36
Greek city, to Greeks : ATHENAI
38
Putting into corrals : PENNING
42
Angry outbursts : TIRADES
44
Singular person : ONER
45
Old kind of skirt : HOBBLE
46
Magazine number : ISSUE
47
But, in Cologne : ABER
49
Western Indians : OSAGES
52
Three, in Naples : TRE
53
Impudent : BRASH
55
Tree : ASH
56
Astronaut's reply : AOK
57
Helmsman's concern: Abbr. : NAV
58
Forms a part of, with "to" : APPERTAINS
63
Dutch town : EDE
64
Ball-game canceler : RAIN
65
Cement impurity : ALITE
66
Certain carriers: Abbr. : RYS
67
Do office work : TYPE
68
"Where ignorance is ___ ... " : BLISS
Down
1
One with rose-colored glasses : OPTIMIST
2
Indeed, in old days : FORSOOTH
3
Roman 1,002 : MII
4
Thackeray's Henry : ESMOND
5
"___ lift?" : NEEDA
6
Queens athlete : MET
7
Danish coin : ORE
8
Golf score : PAR
9
___ est percipi : ESSE
10
___ to say : THATIS
11
___ a limb : OUTON
12
Chick sounds : PEEPS
17
Dope : SAP
19
Criminal group : MAFIA
22
Prefixes for breastbones : STERNOS
25
Upper: Prefix : ANO
26
Jeweler's eyepiece : LOUPE
27
Grandma of art : MOSES
30
Teachers of speech : RHETORS
32
Japanese coin : SEN
34
"Ninotchka" star : GARBO
35
Moroccan coins : RIALS
37
Penpoint : NIB
39
Moments : INSTANTS
40
Psychiatrists' concerns : NEUROSES
41
Agora visitor : GREEK
43
Goddess: Lat. : DEA
45
Horse malady : HEAVES
46
"___ return" : ISHALL
47
Li'l one : ABNER
48
Civil War photographer : BRADY
50
Needlefish : GAR
51
Founded: Abbr. : ESTAB
54
"Act 1" author : HART
59
What crime doesn't do : PAY
60
Dickens orphan : PIP
61
Nautical direction : ENE
62
Clock reading : III

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 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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