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New York Times, Thursday, October 11, 1973

26-Down : Beloved, in Italy

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
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© 1973, The New York TimesNo. 8,825
Across
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Cabbage : KALE
5
Arbor : BOWER
10
Phone button : HOLD
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Leave out : OMIT
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Poplar : ABELE
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Dies ___ : IRAE
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Horseshoe-playing judge, perhaps : HISHONORATSTAKE
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Permit : LET
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Wan : PALE
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Senior : OLDER
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Spoiler : BANE
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Thin : RARE
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Occult doctrine : CABALA
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Good-for-nothing : WASTREL
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Cupid : AMOR
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Faculty : SENSE
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Teachers' org. : NEA
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Cause calls to the S.P.C.A. shelter : RAINCATSANDDOGS
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Animal : ASS
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Court decree : ARRET
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Russian saint : OLGA
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Bring, as a price : SELLFOR
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Secures a ship's rope : BELAYS
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Speech problem : LISP
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Cook : BAKE
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Australian soldier : ANZAC
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Singing voice : ALTO
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Baseball abbr. : RBI
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Baseball victory fetes, in a way : DIAMONDJUBILEES
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N. Y. college : IONA
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"That's ___" (forbidden) : ANONO
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First czar : IVAN
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Bargains : BUYS
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Cuckoo : BATTY
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Parks or Lahr : BERT
Down
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Eastern cosmetic : KOHL
2
French friend : AMIE
3
Careen : LIST
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Anglo-Saxon letter : ETH
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Fruit-salad staple : BANANA
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Old French coin : OBOLE
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Part of to be : WERE
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High note : ELA
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On Social Security: Abbr. : RET
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Axis leader : HITLER
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Toward the mouth : ORAD
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Louise, for one : LAKE
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Hind : DEER
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Gem : OPAL
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Got the wash ready : SORTED
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Farm unit : BARN
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Charged : RANAT
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Org. : ASSN
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Beloved, in Italy : CARA
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Gather : AMASS
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Western capital : BOISE
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River to North Sea : WESER
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___ Gay, A-bomb plane : ENOLA
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Long-stemmed : LEGGY
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Hone : STROP
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Jolson's namesakes : ASAS
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Eugene Field's cat : CALICO
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Cartoon dog's barks : ARFS
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Give out : DOLE
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Woolly animals : LLAMAS
45
Worker around home plate : BATBOY
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Nigerian native : EKOI
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Outspoken : BLUNT
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Star in Draco : ADIB
50
Siamese measure : NIOU
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Crazy : ZANY
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Not ___ or a tittle : AJOT
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French dream : REVE
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Endure : BEAR
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"There ___ any more" : ISNT
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Catch : NAB
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Nucleic acid : DNA
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Women's ___ : LIB

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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