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New York Times, Saturday, October 23, 1965

10-Down : Meddlesome creature.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q W }, Scrabble score: 310 (avg 1.64)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1965, The New York TimesNo. 5,915
Across
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Buckeye State. : OHIO
5
American-born Japanese. : KIBEI
10
Joyous. : GLAD
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Deplorable behavior. : BADMANNERS
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Where the Corso is. : ROMA
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Like certain dresses. : SLEEVELESS
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At all. : EVER
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Alone. : SOLELY
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Increase. : AUGMENT
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Photographer's abbreviation. : ENL
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Symbol of hardness. : STEEL
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Skye dwellers. : SCOTS
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Namely. : VIZ
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French exclamation. : TIENS
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___ les jours (every day): Fr. : TOUS
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Repair. : FIX
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Sarge, for one. : NONCOM
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Wife of Saturn. : OPS
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Writer Allingham's sleuth. : CAMPION
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Brooklyn college. : LIU
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School of acting. : METHOD
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Furthermore. : AND
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Bygone. : PAST
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Genus of geese. : ANSER
44
Banking abbreviation. : PCT
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Adduces. : CITES
46
Former Soviet delegate to U.N. : MALIK
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___ ami. : MON
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Sweet yeast bread. : STOLLEN
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Finnish baths. : SAUNAS
55
Half: Prefix. : HEMI
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Certain signatures. : AUTOGRAPHS
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Farmer's team. : OXEN
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Show indifference: Colloq. : PLAYITCOOL
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Being: Fr. : ETRE
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Pinnacle of ice. : SERAC
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Notice. : ESPY
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Passé: Abbr. : OBS
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Haarlem painter. : HALS
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Thought: Prefix. : IDEO
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Souffles' cousins. : OMELETS
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What the "curfew tolls." : KNELL
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Within: Poet. : INLY
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Paragon of activity. : BEE
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Substitute. : ERSATZ
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Problem. : ISSUE
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Meddlesome creature. : GREMLIN
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Term in tennis. : LOVE
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Verily. : AMEN
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Tapered dress seam. : DART
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Plant of the rose family. : AVENS
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Make progress. : GETON
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Beverage quantity. : SIXPACK
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Breathing pore, in plants. : STOMA
25
Shade of blue. : COPEN
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Evicts. : OUSTS
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Energy. : VIM
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Acclaim. : ECLAT
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Bang-bang. : NOISE
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Notable name in South Africa. : SMUTS
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Passing fashion. : FAD
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Be very sleepy. : NOD
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Lobster delicacy. : CORAL
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Banking abbreviation. : INT
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Couturier's concern. : HEMLINE
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Small sailboat. : PINNACE
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Small fin: Var. : PINULE
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St. James, for one : COURT
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Partner of bounds. : LEAPS
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Hocus-pocus. : MAGIC
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Mule. : SHOE
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Kind of book. : TEXT
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Old Hebrew measure. : OMER
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___ sauce. : SOYA
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Mark of possessive case: Abbr. : APOS
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Plant. : SHOP
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Old salt. : TAR
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Evasive. : SLY

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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