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New York Times, Tuesday, September 17, 1963

40-Across : Heighten.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
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© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 5,161
Across
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Tibetan monks. : LAMAS
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Conversational sound. : AHEM
10
Stinger. : WASP
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Chemical compound. : OXIDE
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Nobody. : NONE
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She: Sp. : ELLA
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___ days. : OLDEN
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State. : CONDITION
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Musical treat. : MEDLEY
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A right and a left. : PAIR
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Physical Ed. degree. : BPE
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Intertwined. : LACED
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Guinea pigs. : CAVIES
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Indian. : UTE
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Story. : ANECDOTE
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Coarse hominy. : SAMP
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Graf ___ . : SPEE
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Remus, for one. : UNCLE
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Heighten. : EXALT
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Room for an odalisk. : ODA
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Bombay city. : SURAT
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Coin of Iraq. : DINAR
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City in Japan. : NARA
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Fountain treat. : SODA
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Insidiously. : COVERTLY
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Centuries ago. : MDL
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English essayist. : STEELE
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Seaport at base of Mt. Carmel. : HAIFA
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"___ armes citoyens ... " : AUX
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City in Ohio. : LIMA
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Fabrics. : SERGES
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Pasture. : GRASSLAND
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Of considerable extent: Prefix. : LONGI
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The alphabet. : ABCS
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Within: Prefix. : ENDO
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Dickens character. : DROOD
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Letter. : NOTE
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Pashas of Tunis. : DEYS
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Discernment. : SENSE
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Come into sight. : LOOM
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Car part. : AXLE
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Agent. : MIDDLEMAN
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Girl's name. : ADELA
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New York lake. : SENECA
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Type of history: Abbr. : ANC
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Ring. : HOOP
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Sicilian city. : ENNA
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Dr. Dooley's good work. : MEDICO
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Soggy. : WET
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Excuse. : ALIBI
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Site for a split-level. : SLOPE
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Star facets. : PANES
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Enraged: Lat. : IRATUS
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Longs for: Colloq. : YENS
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Testify. : DEPONE
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Planet. : VENUS
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Partook of. : USED
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Vehicle. : TAXI
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Wood. : CEDAR
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Famine. : DEARTH
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Table setting. : PLACE
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Term in anthropology. : CROMAGNON
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Hollywood name. : LADD
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And elsewhere: Abbr. : ETAL
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Goes fishing. : TROLLS
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State: Abbr. : ALAS
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Hidden from sight. : VEILED
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Produces. : YIELDS
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French novelist. : SAGAN
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Prefix with fan, pump, jet, etc. : TURBO
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Precise. : EXACT
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Very cold: Poet. : FRORE
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Leonine feature. : MANE
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Hardy boy. : ANDY
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Alter ___. : EGOS
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A left and a right. : SIDE
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Compass point. : SSE
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Musical syllables. : DOS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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