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New York Times, Saturday, July 23, 1960

60-Across : Character in "Ah, Wilderness!"

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { Q V }, Scrabble score: 321 (avg 1.68)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
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N
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© 1960, The New York TimesNo. 4,026
Across
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Had a spat. : TIFFED
7
Figure with ten 34 Down. : DECAGON
14
Contemporary of Emerson. : THOREAU
15
Scrutinize. : EXAMINE
16
Avant-garde playwright. : IONESCO
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Relatives of carports. : GARAGES
18
Statue's base. : PLINTH
19
Reality. : FACT
20
Follower: Suffix. : IST
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Tempera painting done on dry plaster. : SECCO
22
Beanball. : DUSTER
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Tourist stop. : HOTEL
26
Actor from Vienna. : SLEZAK
30
Devitalize. : SAP
33
Makes insensible. : NUMBS
35
Cooked in a certain way. : SAUTE
36
Short poem. : IDYL
38
Northern Italian city. : TURIN
40
Splashing sound. : PLOP
41
Lively dance. : GALOP
43
Disencumbered. : RIDOF
45
Relative of the draft. : UMT
46
Animals with short hind legs. : HYENAS
48
Find out. : GETAT
50
Diagrams. : GRAPHS
52
Packs tightly. : TAMPS
56
Sounds of protest. : AWS
59
That's ___! : THAT
60
Character in "Ah, Wilderness!" : MURIEL
61
Language akin to Provençal. : CATALAN
63
Game like handball. : JAIALAI
64
Kind of lettuce. : ICEBERG
65
Flemish city on Schelde. : ANTWERP
66
Beethoven works. : SONATAS
67
Grandees in Czarist Russia. : BOYARS
Down
1
Fulcrum for an oar. : THOLE
2
Greek style of architecture. : IONIC
3
___ horn. : FRENCH
4
Decorate. : FESTOON
5
Apiece. : EACH
6
Instrumental group. : DUO
7
French impressionist. : DEGAS
8
Gets by force. : EXACTS
9
Trusts. : CARTELS
10
Doctors' group. : AMA
11
Colette creation. : GIGI
12
Bills. : ONES
13
Spawning place. : NEST
14
Foul ___. : TIPS
19
Southern senator. : FULBRIGHT
22
Have scruples. : DEMUR
23
Use a scythe or sickle. : REAP
25
Word indicating impatience. : TUT
27
Bantu. : ZULU
28
Small but important item. : ATOM
29
Maintained. : KEPT
30
Audible breath. : SIGH
31
Call it ___. : ADAY
32
W. W. II journalist. : PYLE
34
See 7 Across. : SIDES
37
Far-reaching. : LONG
39
Particle of negation. : NOT
42
Ruffled garment of 16th century. : PARTLET
44
Complacent stupidity. : FATUITY
47
Neighbor of Algeria. : SAHARA
49
W. W. II beachhead. : TARAWA
51
Spasms of distress. : PANGS
53
Millrose contestant. : MILER
54
Bartletts. : PEARS
55
___ cover. : SLIP
56
Lover of Galatea. : ACIS
57
Site of Baylor U. : WACO
58
Type of gun. : STEN
60
___ War. : MANO
62
Camel's hair fabric. : ABA
63
Patterson specialty. : JAB

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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