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New York Times, Tuesday, August 29, 1961

60-Across : Our: Ger.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J Q W }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1961, The New York TimesNo. 4,428
Across
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Women. : SHES
5
Surrounded by. : AMID
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Preserves. : CANS
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Start of a serial. : PARTI
15
Type size. : PICA
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Medical course: Abbr. : ANAT
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Of birds. : AVIAN
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Decree. : PRONOUNCE
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Kind of hat. : TENGALLON
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Trumpet sound. : BLARE
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To ___ (exactly). : ATEE
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___ Ford Ranges, in Antarctica. : EDSEL
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People of Basutoland. : BANTUS
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Gloomy. : DREAR
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Island: Fr. : ILE
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Kind of jazz. : BARRELHOUSE
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Part of a church. : NAVE
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Fictional ship. : CAINE
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State: Abbr. : NMEX
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Alias Captain Ahab. : GREGORYPECK
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Before: Prefix. : PRE
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Surmise. : GUESS
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Coaxes. : TEASES
48
Not likely. : UNAPT
51
Natural resources. : ORES
52
Thousand: Fr. : MILLE
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Poet of many Cantos. : EZRAPOUND
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Florida resort. : BOCARATON
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Our: Ger. : UNSER
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Israeli statesman. : EBAN
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Type of headgear. : HALO
63
Religious picture. : PIETA
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Imparted. : LENT
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Piece of wood. : SLAT
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Aide: Abbr. : ASST
Down
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Tiff. : SPAT
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Experience. : HAVE
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Finn Mac Cool's land. : ERIN
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"The ___ eve ... " : STAGAT
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Greening. : APPLE
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Spanish painter. : MIRO
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Religious picture. : ICON
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Son of Jacob. : DAN
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Large kettle. : CAULDRON
10
Coins of India. : ANNAS
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Mother-of-pearl. : NACRE
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Shade of gray. : STEEL
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" ... three men ___." : INATUB
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Form of witchcraft. : OBEAH
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"___ du Printemps." : LESACRE
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Met. man. : BING
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Winged. : ALAR
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Firn. : NEVE
28
Rainy day sounds. : DRIPS
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M. Descartes. : RENE
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Sister of Orestes. : ELECTRA
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Skates. : RAYS
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Diamond men. : UMPS
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Dried up. : SERE
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Letters. : EXES
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Vegetable. : EGGPLANT
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___ space. : OUTER
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Maintain in good order. : KEEPUP
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Deafness to certain tones. : ASONIA
48
Flower cluster. : UMBEL
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Mythical weeper. : NIOBE
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Western highway. : ALCAN
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Whether ___. : ORNOT
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Common Latinism. : ETAL
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French writer. : ZOLA
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Our employment service: Abbr. : USES
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Cape Cod décor. : NETS
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Mild expletive. : DRAT
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Exclamations. : AHS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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