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New York Times, Friday, January 29, 1960

41-Down : Cotton cloth.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 315 (avg 1.65)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12
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© 1960, The New York TimesNo. 3,850
Across
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Gulf. : CHASM
6
Communications security means. : CODE
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Soothing substance. : BALM
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Part of North Africa. : LIBYA
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___ N. Bradley. : OMAR
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Inter ___. : ALIA
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Playwright Hopwood. : AVERY
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Don't bother. : NEVERMIND
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What magazine readers do. : RESUBSCRIBE
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Request courteously. : BEG
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Marmalade ingredient. : PEEL
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Chemical compound. : SULFIDE
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Sound in the Morse code. : DOT
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Mollusk like a land snail. : SLUG
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New Mexico pueblo Indian. : SIA
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Concerned with ears. : OTIC
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___ Khokh, peak in the Caucasus. : ADAI
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Rub out. : ERASE
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Phrase used by Dumas père. : CHERCHEZLAFEMME
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Recent battleground. : KOREA
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One's own person. : SELF
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The good earth. : SOIL
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Relatives of lambdas. : ELS
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A brother of Cain. : SETH
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Porker's home. : STY
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Exact copy. : REPLICA
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Runs. : GOES
57
Bird. : EMU
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Chance happening. : CONTINGENCY
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Loquacity: Colloq. : GIFTOFGAB
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Brain products. : IDEAS
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Esparto grass. : ALFA
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Cut down. : FELL
68
Tree-climbing, perfume-yielding civet. : RASSE
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Cozy home. : NEST
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Plumlike fruit. : SLOE
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Goose genus. : ANSER
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Wind instrument: Abbr. : CLAR
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Busy place. : HIVE
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Men named after a president. : ABES
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Sweetener. : SYRUP
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Uncertainties. : MAYBES
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Decides by reasoning. : CONCLUDES
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One-tenth of an ephah. : OMER
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Next Governor of Louisiana. : DAVIS
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Son of Chaos. : EREBUS
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Exclamation imitating a sound. : BAM
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Any excuse: Colloq. : ALIBI
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Describing warm coats. : LINED
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Gypsy girl in "Heart of Midlothian." : MADGE
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Governmental aid. : RELIEF
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Psalmic word of pause. : SELAH
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Streetcar passengers. : FARES
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Common weed. : DOCK
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Roman emperor. : OTHO
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Child's pinafore. : TIER
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Looks. : GAZES
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Angler's basket. : CREEL
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Undecipherable. : ILLEGIBLE
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Well-known radio character. : AMOS
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Struck: Obs. : SMIT
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Wriggling. : EELY
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Cotton cloth. : CALICO
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Scottish river. : AFTON
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Jeers. : SCOFFS
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Mohammedan exodus. : HEGIRA
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Lear's daughter. : REGAN
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Rousseau book. : EMILE
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Smoke masses. : PUFFS
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Cherub. : ANGEL
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Style of car. : SEDAN
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Of the ankle: Comb. form. : TALO
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Promontory. : NESS
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Law suit. : CASE
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Nieuport's river. : YSER
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Gunny cloth. : TAT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 1 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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