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New York Times, Tuesday, November 27, 1962

32-Down : Hedges with ditches and rails.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q Y }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,883
Across
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Great name in literature. : SHAK
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Flings. : CASTS
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Auditors. : CPAS
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Do a teaparty job. : POUR
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Near. : ABOUT
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Et ___. : ALII
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Deeds: Lat. : ACTA
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Highborn. : NOBLE
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Sunburns. : TANS
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Delicate ones. : HOTHOUSEPLANTS
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Lively atom. : ION
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Describing some milk. : SPILT
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Casting. : THROWING
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City of W. Texas. : ELPASO
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Nothing: Fr. : RIEN
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Nothing. : ZERO
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Substance used in rubber. : LATEX
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Eaters of 4 Down. : INF
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Playwright Rattigan. : TERENCE
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Common suffix. : ITE
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___ a dozen. : ADIME
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First shepherd. : ABEL
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Crowd sound. : ROAR
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Kind of car. : DINING
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Caustics. : ERODENTS
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Stage direction. : ENTER
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Bunk. : BED
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Song of Chinatown. : LIMEHOUSEBLUES
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Maple genus. : ACER
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Curtain. : DRAPE
60
Bird's crop. : CRAW
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Nunnery: Abbr. : CONV
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Kind of beaver. : EAGER
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One: Ger. : EINE
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___ bien! (Right!): Sp. : ESTA
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Blackthorns. : SLOES
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Document. : DEED
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Evian, for one. : SPA
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High: Ger. : HOCH
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Self: Prefix. : AUTO
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Army food. : KRATION
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Glorify. : CANONIZE
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Ben Adhem. : ABOU
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Tears' accompaniment : SOBS
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Bulrushes. : TULES
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Plain. : STEPPE
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Tree with heart-shaped leaves. : CATALPA
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Tara, for one. : PLANTATION
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"I ___ got nobody ... " : AINT
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Make a hissing sound. : SISS
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The way of doing. : HOW
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French city. : LILLE
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Musical chord. : TRIAD
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Indian language. : HINDI
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Gentility. : REFINEMENT
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Tiber tributary. : NERA
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Loon's cousin. : GREBE
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Assail. : SETAT
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Hedges with ditches and rails. : OXERS
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Unique person: Slang. : ONER
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Fraction. : TENTH
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Defeats overwhelmingly: Slang. : CLOBBERS
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Roman goddess. : MINERVA
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Slimmed. : REDUCED
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Rocks lined with crystals. : GEODES
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State: Abbr. : DEL
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Countrified. : RURAL
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Fine fabric. : LACE
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Twenty: Prefix. : ICOS
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Palm starch. : SAGO
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Foil's cousin. : EPEE
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Huron's neighbor. : ERIE
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Sound. : SANE
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Married. : WED

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

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