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New York Times, Friday, July 1, 1966

51-Across : Chimney swift.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { Q V X }, Scrabble score: 308 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
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© 1966, The New York TimesNo. 6,166
Across
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Peat. : TURF
5
Conferences. : TALKS
10
Egyptian. : COPT
14
Particle. : ATOM
15
Type of window. : ORIEL
16
Other: Sp. : OTRO
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Workshops, in short. : LABS
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Subject of T. H. White books. : KINGARTHUR
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Greek letter. : CHI
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Tributary of the Seine. : OISE
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Cogent. : POTENT
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"The ___ Roman of them all." : NOBLEST
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Microscopic openings. : PORES
27
Front-page topic. : SCHOOLS
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Ready for business. : OPEN
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"Oh, give me ___ ... " : AHOME
32
Arrange. : CLASSIFY
36
"Flying down to ___." : RIO
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"___ Night," Dorothy Sayers novel. : GAUDY
39
New Deal initials. : NRA
40
Signify. : INDICATE
43
Unexpected difficulty. : FACER
45
Scruff. : NAPE
46
___ it off. : LAUGHED
48
Detection device. : RADAR
51
Chimney swift. : SWALLOW
53
Prayer. : ORISON
55
Condition: Suffix. : OSIS
56
Units of wt. : OZS
59
See 3 Down. : LITTLEJOHN
61
Apple or crab apple. : TREE
62
Recent. : LATE
63
Ship with a deck cut off. : RAZEE
64
12th cen. poet. : OMAR
65
Mountain's cap. : SNOW
66
Chasm. : ABYSS
67
Body of land. : ISLE
Down
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Magnesium silicate. : TALC
2
Beehive State. : UTAH
3
De Koven opera. : ROBINHOOD
4
Certain radios. : FMS
5
"___ a Mockingbird." : TOKILL
6
Originates. : ARISES
7
Speeches. : LINES
8
100 lbs. of nails. : KEG
9
Rebuff. : SLAP
10
Summer dresses. : COTTONS
11
Different from. : OTHER
12
Type of fruit. : PRUNE
13
In law, wrongful acts. : TORTS
19
Ring boundary. : ROPES
21
Organ stop. : OBOE
24
___ Paul. : OOM
25
Related. : TOLD
27
Garment for a rani. : SARI
28
Part of the face. : CHIN
30
Compensation. : PAY
32
Pool item. : CUE
33
Certain larvae. : INCHWORMS
34
Part of FOB. : FREE
35
Farm adjunct. : YARD
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Hiatus. : GAP
38
Noun suffixes. : ATES
41
Agitated: Colloq. : INASTEW
42
"Main Street" heroine. : CAROL
43
Suffixes for cup or spoon. : FULS
44
Gone by. : AGO
46
Cilia. : LASHES
47
Straightens. : ALINES
48
Brioches. : ROLLS
49
Occupation: Suffix. : ARIAN
50
Likewise. : DITTO
52
Befuddled: Slang. : WOOZY
54
Black: It. : NERA
57
Fervor. : ZEAL
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Withered. : SERE
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Quick thrust. : JAB
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Thou: Fr. : TOI

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