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New York Times, Thursday, September 2, 1965

53-Across : Ducks.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 321 (avg 1.70)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
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© 1965, The New York TimesNo. 5,877
Across
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Small fry. : TADS
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Coffee. : MOCHA
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Ridicule. : TWIT
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Not ___ (many). : AFEW
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Mixture of metals. : ALLOY
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Mixture of foods. : HASH
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Product of Etna. : LAVA
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Moves with speed. : TEARS
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Facility. : EASE
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Problem in suburbia. : CRABGRASS
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The real ___. : MCCOY
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___ Canals. : SOO
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Hebrew word in the Psalms. : SELAH
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Seedy fruit. : FIG
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Furthermore. : AND
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Save. : LAYAWAY
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Make into law. : ENACT
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A woman loved. : INAMORATA
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External: Prefix. : ECTO
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Square accounts. : PAYUP
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Friday, for one. : GIRL
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Robot bomb. : DOODLEBUG
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Kind of jury. : PETIT
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Shake hands on. : AGREETO
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Famous Secretary of State. : HAY
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European resort. : SPA
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Sky-blue shades. : CIELS
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Refrain syllable. : TRA
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Ducks. : TEALS
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Popular sport. : ICEHOCKEY
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Storage place of a kind. : HIVE
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Suffix with land or sea. : SCAPE
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Time of day: Prefix. : HORO
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To join: Fr. : UNIR
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Composer Copland. : AARON
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Type of type: Abbr. : ITAL
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Secretary. : DESK
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Favor. : BLESS
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White House name. : POLK
Down
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Soft mineral. : TALC
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From a distance. : AFAR
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Hindu angel. : DEVA
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Wipes up. : SWABS
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___ of honor. : MATRON
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Olive genus. : OLEA
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Style: Slang. : CLASS
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Guffaw. : HORSELAUGH
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Assents. : AYS
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In ___ of (under supervision). : THECHARGE
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Army member. : WAAC
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"This ___ sudden!" : ISSO
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People. : THEY
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Capricorn's shape. : GOAT
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Famous name in medicine. : MAYO
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Hurricane ___. : LAMP
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"___ cold ... " : FEEDA
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In disguise: Colloq. : INCOG
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Croc's cousin. : GATOR
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Fiendish. : DIABOLICAL
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Bides one's time. : WAITS
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Nautical term. : ATRIP
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Conference place of 1945. : YALTA
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Worker in CIA. : CODECLERK
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Site of the Hall of Fame: Abbr. : NYU
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Man's nickname. : PETE
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Garlands. : LEIS
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Fire: Prefix. : PYRO
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Constantine's capital. : ATHENS
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Panic. : SCARE
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Have ___ on the shoulder. : ACHIP
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Sound of a sort. : THUD
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German article. : EINE
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Bird: Lat. : AVIS
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Primitive poem. : EPOS
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Japanese zither. : KOTO
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Of an age. : ERAL
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Recipe ingredient. : YOLK
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Saturday or Sunday: Abbr. : SAB

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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