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New York Times, Tuesday, August 31, 1965

25-Across : City in Arizona.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
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© 1965, The New York TimesNo. 5,875
Across
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Peter or Paul. : CZAR
5
The French. : GAULS
10
Busy place. : HIVE
14
Impost. : LEVY
15
Musical tone. : AFLAT
16
Scene of strife. : ASIA
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Riffian. : ARAB
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People of Transylvania. : ROUMANIANS
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Moor of Spain. : MORISCO
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County in Ireland. : GALWAY
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___ water. : INHOT
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Feature of the hobble skirt. : SLIT
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City in Arizona. : TUCSON
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Part of "As You Like It." : EPILOGUE
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Identical. : ALIKE
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Wooded vales. : GLENS
33
Staff member: Abbr. : ADC
34
Zodiac sign. : LEO
35
Starr of the Wild West. : BELLE
36
Cambridge school. : MIT
37
Ratite bird. : EMU
38
Jury. : PANEL
39
Office worker. : STENO
41
Notorious Russian. : RASPUTIN
43
Kitchen utensil. : COOKER
44
Der ___. : ALTE
45
Apparition. : SHAPE
46
Composer De Falla. : MANUEL
49
Native of North Carolina. : TARHEEL
52
Time for good hunting. : OPENSEASON
55
18th century portraitist. : OPIE
56
Varied: Abbr. : MISC
57
Businessman. : AGENT
58
Photographer's purchase. : LENS
59
Ornamental ribbon. : SASH
60
Expensive pictures of a kind. : XRAYS
61
Whilom. : ERST
Down
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Chowder base. : CLAM
2
Cipher. : ZERO
3
Grasping. : AVARICIOUS
4
City on the Volga, now Shcherbakov. : RYBINSK
5
Waiter at Maxim's. : GARCON
6
On shank's mare. : AFOOT
7
Curved knife used by Eskimos. : ULU
8
Wallop. : LAM
9
Certain dance guests. : STAGLINE
10
"___ the Chief." : HAILTO
11
What "vidi" means. : ISAW
12
Guitarlike instrument of India. : VINA
13
Marryat's Midshipman. : EASY
19
Synonym for hardness. : NAILS
21
Oxford. : SHOE
24
Charm. : SPELL
25
Old German coin. : TALER
26
Body of Moslem scholars. : ULEMA
27
Lady of Loch Katrine. : ELLEN
28
Warden of a kind. : GAMEKEEPER
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City near Venice. : UDINE
30
King Arthur's foster father. : ECTOR
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Aladdin's friend. : GENIE
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Formidable female. : BATTLEAX
38
Whimpers. : PULES
39
Take wing. : SOAR
40
First-class, in England. : TOPHOLE
42
Falstaff's special feature. : PAUNCH
43
Plain songs. : CHANTS
45
Unyielding. : STONY
46
VIP's on the home front. : MOMS
47
Port of the South Seas. : APIA
48
Suffix with thin or fat. : NESS
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German number. : EINS
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In case. : LEST
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Farmer's forte: Abbr. : AGR
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The Red or the Black. : SEA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 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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