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New York Times, Thursday, August 6, 1970

61-Across : Fateful time

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,663
Across
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Inclination : BENT
5
Ceramic material : FRIT
9
Studied : PORED
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Latin spouse : UXOR
15
Crescent-shaped figure : LUNE
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Zola : EMILE
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Like some gases : RARE
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With derring-do : INTREPIDLY
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Collectors of a sort : SCAVENGERS
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Hyson and others : TEAS
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"___ of beauty is ... " : ATHING
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Old English coin : RYAL
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Civil War initials : CSA
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Style of food : CUISINE
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Sao ___ : PAULO
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Tiny Tim's notes : FALSETTOS
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Man's name : ABRAM
40
Early car : REO
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Spirit: Ger. : GEIST
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Cynical one : PESSIMIST
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Banquet man : EMCEE
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Kemal ___ : ATATURK
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German court : HOF
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Extinct birds : MOAS
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Tickets, familiarly : DUCATS
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Essence : GIST
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Honest : ONTHELEVEL
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Fateful time : HOUROFDOOM
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Chide : RATE
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365 jours : ANNEE
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Sicilian city : ENNA
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Helen's milieu : TROY
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Certain bettor : TAKER
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Control : REIN
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Wash. people : SENS
Down
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Sac : BURSA
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Precise : EXACT
3
___ Lofts, English author : NORAH
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Fountain of note : TREVI
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Sprees : FLINGS
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Ladder feature : RUNG
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Prefix for pret or cession : INTER
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Looped fabric : TERRYCLOTH
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Zing : PEP
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Leave out : OMIT
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Lie at anchor : RIDE
12
Logan : ELLA
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Old N. African rulers : DEYS
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Isaac's son and others : ESAUS
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Praise : ENCOMIUM
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Loyal, old style : LIEGEFUL
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Boer : AFRIKANDER
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Flower part : STEM
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Resembling: Suffix : ITIC
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Sniff : NOSE
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This, in Madrid : ESTE
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Family member : PAPA
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Back up : ABET
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Sky animal : URSA
36
Shoe form : LAST
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Bronze : AES
43
Certain combination of gables : MROOF
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Certain poet, perhaps : ODEMAN
49
Fred or Lewis : STONE
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Documents: Abbr. : CERTS
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Molière's miser : AVARE
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Western range : TETON
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Weaver's reeds : SLEYS
55
Mountain pass : GHAT
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Hebrides island : IONA
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Done for : SUNK
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Large plant : TREE
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First word of a French motto : HONI
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Poetic contraction : OER

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 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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