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New York Times, Friday, July 3, 1970

57-Across : Common skink

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 322 (avg 1.70)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,629
Across
1
Southern tree : TITI
5
Amontillado containers : CASKS
10
Charity : ALMS
14
Waugh : ALEC
15
Chianti country : ITALY
16
Bell sound : PEAL
17
Equator : LINE
18
Hebrew temple platform : DUKAN
19
Brown ore : PACO
20
Salinger perennial : CATCHERINTHERYE
23
Chilean cape : HORN
24
Auto org. : AAA
25
Corresponds : AGREES
28
Digitalis : FOXGLOVE
33
Newspapers : PRESS
34
Moslem magistrates : CADIS
35
Zuyder or Tappan : ZEE
36
Throb : PANT
37
French claret : MEDOC
38
Composer Orff : CARL
39
Bed, in Paris : LIT
40
Ampler : WIDER
41
Hardy plant of Europe : GORSE
42
Glazed : ENAMELED
44
Double ___ : PARKED
45
Keg wood : OAK
46
Long time : AEON
47
Pennsylvania event of 1794 : WHISKYREBELLION
55
Particles : IONS
56
Baseball brothers : WANER
57
Common skink : ADDA
58
Complication : NODE
59
Soap plant : AMOLE
60
Emulate a willow : WEEP
61
Nigerian people : EDOS
62
Went off course : YAWED
63
Teasdale : SARA
Down
1
Soft stone : TALC
2
Pelvic bones : ILIA
3
Circus feature : TENT
4
Cooler : ICECHEST
5
Drinks : CIDERS
6
Done to ___ : ATURN
7
Literary pseudonym : SAKI
8
Secret U. S. group : KLAN
9
Relating to symbolic behavior : SYNTAXIC
10
Entreaty : APPEAL
11
Shakespearean character : LEAR
12
Neighbor of Gimbel : MACY
13
___ gin : SLOE
21
Cultivates : HOES
22
Witches : HAGS
25
Ingredient of 5 Down : APPLE
26
Wheat or millet : GRAIN
27
___-car : RENTA
28
Withered : FADED
29
Bouquet : ODOR
30
Southwest mountain range : OZARK
31
Bit of poetry : VERSE
32
Fished : EELED
34
Grant : CEDE
37
Path for a teetotaler : MILKYWAY
38
British duties ended in 1846 : CORNLAWS
40
Diluted : WEAK
41
Reading, for one : GAOL
43
"___ from an Old Manse" : MOSSES
44
Looked in a way : PEERED
46
Poplar : ABELE
47
Port or hock : WINE
48
Bonnet : HOOD
49
Asian prefix : INDO
50
Incarnation of Vishnu : RAMA
51
Sufficient, poetically : ENOW
52
Impression : IDEA
53
German river : ODER
54
California grape center : NAPA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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