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New York Times, Saturday, December 17, 1960

43-Down : Grooved, as a column.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { H Q X }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1960, The New York TimesNo. 4,173
Across
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Means of getting home for Christmas. : JETS
5
Ingenious. : SLICK
10
Stern's opposite. : STEM
14
Shawm. : OBOE
15
Indonesian island. : TIMOR
16
A Gardner. : ERLE
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Board the Chief. : ENTRAIN
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"___ anyone?" : TENNIS
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Massachusetts cape. : ANN
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Colanders. : SIEVES
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Certain Egyptians. : COPTS
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Marsh. : FEN
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Spring up. : ARISE
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Italian silver. : LIRE
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Not often. : SELDOM
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Overturn. : TIP
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Eastern name. : ALI
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"Sing me ___ ... " : TOSLEEP
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Indian. : OTO
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In ___ (again the thing): Lat. : REM
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Destine. : INTEND
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Trampled. : TROD
42
Paper for wrapping. : KRAFT
44
Craft. : ART
45
He wrote "Home, Sweet Home." : PAYNE
46
Threshes. : FLAILS
48
Plans: Abbr. : ARR
49
Begone!, in Shakespeare's day. : AVAUNT
51
Mock. : IMITATE
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58
French man's name. : ELIE
59
Inclines. : LEANS
60
Authorization. : FIAT
61
Do a gardening job. : WEED
62
Certain Hindus. : YOGIS
63
Prophet of Nehemiah's time. : EZRA
Down
1
Character in "Carmen." : JOSE
2
Raven. : EBON
3
Praise highly: Colloq. : TOUT
4
Notched. : SERRATE
5
Mug. : STEIN
6
Delineate. : LIMN
7
"___ lone cowhand ... " : IMA
8
Bed. : COT
9
Where Khania is. : KRETE
10
Fisherman. : SEINER
11
Passing. : TRANSITORY
12
Figure in Norse myth, symbolizing old age. : ELLI
13
Navy dinner. : MESS
18
Preserves. : CANS
19
Renovate. : REVAMP
23
Best ___. : SELLERS
24
Start a new paragraph. : INDENT
25
Supreme Court justice. : CLARK
26
Tanker. : OILER
27
A type of evidence. : PRIMAFACIE
28
Gay. : FESTAL
30
Repress: Colloq. : SITON
31
Lyric. : EPODE
33
Familiar form of address. : SON
34
Great dictionary: Abbr. : OED
37
Giants. : TITANS
41
A hypocrite, from Molière's satire. : TARTUFE
43
Grooved, as a column. : FLUTED
45
Smug one. : PRIG
47
Member of NATO. : ITALY
48
Wrong. : AMISS
49
Quite ___ ( a good many). : AFEW
50
Latin farewell. : VALE
51
African enclave, Spanish colony. : IFNI
52
State: Abbr. : ARIZ
53
Saline drop. : TEAR
54
This: Span. : ESTA
56
Recent: Comb. form. : NEO
57
U. N. name. : DAG

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

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