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New York Times, Monday, August 19, 1968

73-Across : Letters.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1968, The New York TimesNo. 6,946
Across
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Yum-Yum, for one. : MAID
5
American novelist. : OHARA
10
Jewish month. : ADAR
14
Impulse. : URGE
15
More peaked. : PALER
16
S. Amer. monkey. : TITI
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Backslide. : FALLBEHIND
19
Book of the Old Testament. : AMOS
20
Groove in a shaft. : FLUTE
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Moslem prince. : AMEER
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Kind: Colloq. : ILK
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Peak. : ALP
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Favorably. : BENIGNLY
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Litter, for one. : EYESORE
32
Collegiate initials. : NYU
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Highest point: Abbr. : MAX
34
Candy flavoring. : WINTERGREEN
40
Diminutive suffixes. : ULES
42
"And ___ pray ... " : ONETO
43
Whenever. : ONCE
44
Complete reversal of opinion: Fig. : SUMMERSAULT
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G.P.'s. : DRS
48
Young shark. : PUP
49
Jittery. : NERVOUS
51
Notations. : JOTTINGS
56
She's so sweet. : SUE
57
Prefix with corn or form. : UNI
58
King mackerels. : CEROS
60
Character in Golden Fleece legend. : MEDEA
64
Kind of sign. : NEON
66
Fountainhead. : WELLSPRING
68
___ in (hippie imperative). : TUNE
69
Sedate. : STAID
70
Behold: Lat. : ECCE
71
Chancel's neighbor. : APSE
72
Scotland, et al. : YARDS
73
Letters. : DEES
Down
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Botch up. : MUFF
2
Sea of Asia. : ARAL
3
Northern home. : IGLU
4
Alluvial deposits. : DELTAS
5
Poetic "unclose." : OPE
6
Mirthful sound. : HAHA
7
Out on ___. : ALIMB
8
French name. : RENEE
9
Forest in Warwickshire. : ARDEN
10
___ glance. : ATA
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Musical term. : DIMINUENDO
12
Coral island. : ATOLL
13
Precarious. : RISKY
18
Unworthy of. : BELOW
22
Word with finger or leader. : RING
25
Church title. : PRIOR
27
Spiral: Prefix. : GYRO
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Big birds. : EMUS
29
River to the Yellow Sea. : YALU
30
Big help at tax time. : EXEMPTIONS
31
Danube tributary. : ENNS
35
Bohea. : TEA
36
Vingt-___. : ETUN
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Hero and heroine. : ROLES
38
Color. : ECRU
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Noun suffix. : NESS
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Blacken. : SMUT
45
Old style poem. : EPIC
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Good guy. : TRUMP
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Changed direction. : VEERED
51
Cabal. : JUNTA
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Slightly ahead. : ONEUP
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Full of tidings. : NEWSY
54
Form of Margaret. : GRETA
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Kind of energy. : SOLAR
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Moved easily. : SLID
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Do a kitchen chore. : DICE
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Noun suffix. : ENCE
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Thirty and others. : AGES
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Born. : NEE
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College degrees: Abbr. : SDS

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

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