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New York Times, Tuesday, November 28, 1967

50-Down : ___ importance.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { K Q X }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,681
Across
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Nursery rhyme character. : LAMB
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Verne. : JULES
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Arm of the Black Sea. : AZOV
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Omnia vincit ___. : AMOR
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Run away (from). : ELOPE
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Partial: Prefix. : SEMI
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Refuse assent to. : VETO
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Cousin of odds and ends. : SCRIPSCRAP
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Lively. : ANIMATED
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Housewear. : APRONS
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Fuel carrier. : OILER
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At liberty, in Bonn. : FREI
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Forthright. : CANDID
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Removable parts of fences. : DRAWBARS
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Drags with violence. : HALES
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Reading on a tapeline. : FOOT
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French form of Aeneas. : ENEE
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Choler. : IRE
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Emotional pangs. : TWINGES
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Do a farm job. : TED
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Missing. : LOST
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Certain dwellings. : INNS
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Bel ___, Italian cheese. : PAESE
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One star, two stars, etc. : INSIGNIA
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Utensil for preparing corn. : POPPER
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Dissenting words. : NOES
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Square: Fr. : CARRE
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Rock garden features. : MOSSES
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Fasten in a way. : BUTTONUP
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In a haphazard way. : AFTERASORT
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Dark red. : PUCE
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Not dual. : UNAL
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River of Venetia. : PIAVE
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Kettle: Sp. : OLLA
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Retrievers. : DOGS
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Sylvan deity. : SATYR
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Suffix with gyro or thermo. : STAT
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Lassen product. : LAVA
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Choir response. : AMEN
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Statuelike. : MOTIONLESS
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"The show must go on," for one. : BROMIDE
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Quipped. : JESTED
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Worrier's reward. : ULCER
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One of the peerage. : LORD
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Finial. : EPI
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Different. : SEPARATE
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Attribute (to). : ASCRIBE
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Box score notation. : ZERO
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Arabian gulf. : OMAN
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The red-carpet set. : VIPS
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Cast forth, as one down. : SPEW
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Tilted. : ALIST
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Spring peepers. : FROGS
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Hot dish. : CHILI
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Composer Copland. : AARON
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Lady from Florence. : DONNA
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Second syllable from the last. : ANTEPENULT
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Baseball name. : REESE
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Part of Passover. : SEDER
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The end. : FINIS
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Apples. : WINESAPS
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Surfing. : SPORT
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Christmas decorations. : TINSELS
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To the point. : APROPOS
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Active one. : GOER
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Talk, stage style. : PATTER
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Winding. : CURVY
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Tennyson poem. : MAUD
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___ importance. : OFNO
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Big game. : STAG
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Shell of a kind. : BOAT
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Western campus. : UCLA
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Fuel. : PEAT
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Indian of New Mexico. : SIA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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