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New York Times, Friday, February 26, 1965

35-Down : Hawaiian isle.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { Q }, Scrabble score: 334 (avg 1.77)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1965, The New York TimesNo. 5,689
Across
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Hasty pudding. : MUSH
5
___ Flow, in the Orkneys. : SCAPA
10
Challenge: Fr. : DEFI
14
Killer whale. : ORCA
15
Shipping clerk, for example. : CASER
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Plodding beasts. : OXEN
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What "vidi" means. : ISAW
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Extreme. : ULTRA
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Trappist. : MONK
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Declined. : SANK
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Lethal spouses. : BLUEBEARDS
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Not volatile. : STAID
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Old ___. : VIC
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Quality arousing compassion. : PATHOS
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Native of Mocha. : YEMENITE
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Go on ___ (carouse). : ATEAR
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Type of performer. : MIME
36
Discrete whole. : SUM
37
Mystery story, 1860. : THEWOMANINWHITE
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Very controversial. : HOT
42
Squall. : GUST
43
French annuity. : RENTE
44
Abstruse. : ESOTERIC
47
Wall Street "wedding." : MERGER
48
Poetic contraction. : TIS
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Put ___ to. : ANEND
51
Special kind of vehicle. : BLACKMARIA
55
Nobelist in literature, 1925. : SHAW
59
People. : FOLK
60
One of the Dulleses. : ALLEN
61
Goya lady. : MAJA
62
Tasman. : ABEL
63
Kitchen need. : SIEVE
64
Muezzin's call. : AZAN
65
Resentful: Colloq. : SORE
66
Check "artist." : KITER
67
Proximate. : NEXT
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Mars et avril. : MOIS
2
She-bear: Lat. : URSA
3
Closely examine. : SCAN
4
Detective from 1863 play. : HAWKSHAW
5
Divers' gear. : SCUBAS
6
Beautiful: Prefix. : CALLI
7
Manuscript sold for £25, in 1889. : ASTUDYINSCARLET
8
___ Marquette. : PERE
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Fatima, for one. : ARAB
10
Field of control. : DOMAIN
11
Driving out evil spirits. : EXORCISING
12
Ward (off). : FEND
13
The red and the black. : INKS
22
First lady. : EVE
24
Matador's adversary. : TORO
26
Motion-picture pioneer. : PATHE
27
Comte de la Fère's nom de guerre. : ATHOS
28
Abstemious one. : TEETOTALER
30
Utter. : EMIT
31
People. : MEN
32
"Cosi fan ___." : TUTTE
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Grandee in Mocha. : EMEER
35
Hawaiian isle. : MAUI
38
Executive: Abbr. : MGR
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Birdie. : WREN
40
Vaquero. : HERDSMAN
45
Amuse greatly. : TICKLE
46
River of Scotland. : ESK
47
More penurious. : MEANER
50
Snow, in Spain. : NIEVE
51
College degrees. : BFAS
52
Timber wolf. : LOBO
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Domino. : MASK
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Et ___. : ALII
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Vapor. : HAZE
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Iliadic hero. : AJAX
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Long for. : WANT

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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