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New York Times, Friday, December 10, 1971

33-Down : Hesitant sounds

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 43, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
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© 1971, The New York TimesNo. 8,154
Across
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Stadium : SHEA
5
Kind of degree : NTH
8
Tear : RENT
12
Notch made in cutting : KERF
13
Burr : AARON
15
Always : EVER
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Direction : EAST
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Flora and fauna : BIOTA
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Wine and ___ : DINE
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Second three colors of rainbow : GREENBLUEVIOLET
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Female ruff : REE
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Indistinct : BLEAR
24
Form number for April 15 : IO4O
26
Smith and Kaline : ALS
27
Headpieces : TAMS
30
Sailors' saint : ELMO
31
Beverage : ADE
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Showy : ORNATE
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___ dyed (did a coloring job) : TIEDAND
36
Fish-smoking ship : DROGHER
37
Xavier and family : CUGATS
38
Civil or Punic : WAR
39
"I'm all ___" : EARS
40
Willie : MAYS
41
Electrical unit : OHM
42
River in Northumberland : TYNE
43
With 9 Down, a monkey's credo : SEENO
45
Sheep : EWE
46
Constituents of a rainbow : REFRACTEDCOLORS
53
Samoan port : APIA
54
Wreak ___ : HAVOC
55
Social or mountain : LION
56
One-third of Caesar's dispatch : VIDI
57
___ citato : OPERE
58
Bone: Prefix : OSTE
59
College course: Abbr. : ECON
60
Fine fur: Abbr. : ERM
61
Coach Ewbank : WEEB
Down
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Part of a keel : SKEG
2
Listen to : HEAR
3
Gaelic : ERSE
4
When Noah might have seen a rainbow : AFTER4ODAYSRAIN
5
Brad or spike : NAIL
6
Bother : TROUBLE
7
Tourists' lodgings : HOTELS
8
First three colors of rainbow : REDORANGEYELLOW
9
See 43 Across : EVIL
10
Hawaiian goose : NENE
11
Allowance for waste : TRET
13
French cleric : ABBE
14
Part of a church : NAVE
20
Recent: Prefix : NEO
21
Medical: Prefix : IATRO
24
Ancient Troy : ILIUM
25
Finis : OMEGA
26
Do arithmetic : ADD
28
U.S. naval writer : MAHAN
29
Metric measure : STERE
30
Catch-all abbr. : ETC
31
Reply: Abbr. : ANS
32
Bobby of hockey : ORR
33
Hesitant sounds : ERS
35
Perplexed : ATSEA
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Obstruct : DAM
38
Pronoun : WHOEVER
41
Recorded : ONTAPE
42
___ on the aisle : TWO
44
Reverberate : ECHO
45
Behold! : ECCE
46
Review for an S.R.O. : RAVE
47
Heroic : EPIC
48
Name for a dog : FIDO
49
Campus quarters : DORM
50
French river : OISE
51
Sound of surf : ROTE
52
Reprimand: Scot. : SNEB

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 1 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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