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New York Times, Saturday, November 12, 1966

11-Down : Insect stage.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { G Q W X }, Scrabble score: 315 (avg 1.65)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1966, The New York TimesNo. 6,300
Across
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___ a rose. : REDAS
6
Letter of a kind: Abbr. : INIT
10
Member of the Coast Guard. : SPAR
14
Negatively charged particle. : ANION
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Honshu city. : NARA
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Invisible emanation. : AURA
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Flower. : JACKINTHEPULPIT
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Doing. : ACT
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Song of joy. : PAEAN
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Square. : PLAZA
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Parts of flowers. : STAMENS
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Being: Lat. : ESSE
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Emulate Demosthenes. : ORATE
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Soap bubbles. : LATHER
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Talk indiscreetly. : BLAB
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Dismay. : APPAL
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___ julienne. : ALA
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Flower. : LILYOFTHEVALLEY
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Pertinent. : APT
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Awesome. : DREAD
45
Doctrines, theories, etc. : ISMS
46
Old World bird. : HOOPOE
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Hailing calls, Latin-American style. : HOLAS
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Recent hurricane. : INEZ
53
Bitterroot is its flower. : MONTANA
57
Cash, for one. : ASSET
60
Drive out. : EJECT
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A. A. Milne character. : PIM
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Flower. : STAROFBETHLEHEM
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Whitish mineral. : TALC
67
Gallic name. : RENE
68
Heath genus. : ERICA
69
Status quo ___. : ANTE
70
Fighter's memento. : SCAR
71
Bicycles. : RIDES
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Dignitaries of the East. : RAJAS
2
Decree. : ENACT
3
Pronouncements. : DICTA
4
Spaceman's report. : AOK
5
Hidden shooter. : SNIPER
6
Not bequeathed. : INTESTATE
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Okinawa port. : NAHA
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Daughter of Themis. : IRENE
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Kind of dance. : TAP
10
Medieval helmet. : SALLET
11
Insect stage. : PUPA
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Where the saguaro grows: Abbr. : ARIZ
13
Pro ___. : RATA
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Zola character. : NANA
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College in N. J. : UPSALA
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First name of fictional mammal. : MOBY
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Bulgar. : SLAV
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Hebrew measure. : EPHAH
30
Frans of art. : HALS
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Type of school: Abbr. : ELEM
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Parts of some flowers. : RAYS
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Nonsense: Slang. : BLAH
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Chinese poet of T'ang dynasty. : LIPO
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Voice. : ALTO
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Instrument for hikers. : PEDOMETER
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Tooth: Prefix. : ODONTO
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Loosen. : FREE
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Roll. : LIST
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President Franklin. : PIERCE
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Site of the bonny, bonny banks. : LOCH
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Horn. : ANTLER
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Mediterranean vessel. : ZEBEC
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Gardener's bane. : APHID
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Family member. : NIECE
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Abbesses. : AMMAS
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Canine in movies. : ASTA
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First name in baseball lore. : STAN
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Flavor. : SALT
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University city in Germany. : JENA
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Foreign money: Abbr. : FRS
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Son of Gad. : ERI

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 6 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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