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New York Times, Wednesday, December 6, 1972

53-Down : First-class

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,516
Across
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Bird sound : COO
4
Manifest : OVERT
9
Mail-service abbr. : DPO
12
S. A. balsam : TOLU
13
French painter : LEGER
14
Sanction : FIAT
15
Standard quantity : UNIT
16
Launching-pad fuel : PROPELLANT
18
Enjoyed : SAVORED
20
Do a stenog's job : RETYPE
21
Utensil : KNIFE
22
"___ on parle ... " : ICI
24
Blue pigment : SMALT
26
___ quo : STATUS
28
She-bear: Sp. : OSA
30
Process: Suffix : ESIS
31
Chop : HEW
32
Allen or Brooks : MEL
33
Style : TONE
34
Famous first man of a sort : NEILARMSTRONG
38
Streams: Abbr. : RIVS
39
___ culpa : MEA
40
No longer chic : OUT
41
Again : ANEW
42
___-Saud : IBN
43
Place of learning: Lat. : SCHOLA
47
Everglades bird : HERON
49
Paid notices : ADS
51
Leander's love and others : HEROS
52
Man from Damascus : SYRIAN
54
Component : ELEMENT
56
Flight of 1969 : APOLLONINE
58
Russian saint : OLGA
59
Thoreau subject : POND
60
Lights : NEONS
61
Eskers : OSAR
62
Season in Paris : ETE
63
Ferber and Millay : EDNAS
64
Gain : NET
Down
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Harvard name : CONANT
2
De Havilland : OLIVIA
3
Ultramundane : OUTOFTHISWORLD
4
Old Greek flask : OLPE
5
Composer Giuseppe : VERDI
6
Self : EGO
7
Musical-show comebacks : REPRISES
8
Family or Christmas : TREE
9
Organ stop : DIAPASON
10
Wall material : PANELING
11
Baseball great : OTT
12
Warthogs' pride : TUSKS
14
Song for the restless : FLYMETOTHEMOON
17
Mil. officers : LTS
19
Hebrew masculine name : REUEL
23
___ module : COMMAND
25
Part of Mao's name : TSE
27
Hindu pundit : SWAMI
29
Voice parts : ALTOS
34
Card : NINESPOT
35
"___ is a moon and has a dark side ... " : EVERYONE
36
Forbade again : REBANNED
37
Dress trimming : RUCHE
38
Cheer : RAH
44
Ultimatum words : ORELSE
45
"Johnny's so ___ the fair" : LONGAT
46
Wish upon ___ : ASTAR
48
Nothing : NIL
50
Persian rug : SENNA
53
First-class : AONE
55
Without: Suffix : LESS
56
Copy : APE
57
Atom : ION

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 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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