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New York Times, Thursday, March 5, 1964

5-Down : Collecting.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 306 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
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© 1964, The New York TimesNo. 5,331
Across
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Eat greedily. : GULP
5
Disconcert. : ABASH
10
Big name in Britain. : HOME
14
Spotted fish. : OPAH
15
Vague. : MISTY
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Lancer: Var. : ULAN
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Up ___ good. : TONO
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Tax collector's concern. : ASSESSMENT
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World-famous American contralto. : ANDERSON
22
Descendants. : SCIONS
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Petty officer. : BOSN
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In grammar, a verb inflection. : MOOD
25
Saturday: Fr. : SAMEDI
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Bohlen, for one. : DIPLOMAT
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School group. : PTA
33
Playfully. : INFUN
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Shakespeare's forte. : DRAMA
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Apiece. : EACH
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Lively dance. : GALOP
40
Gradual. : SLOW
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Remote. : ALOOF
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Rebound. : CAROM
45
Massachusetts cape. : ANN
46
Augusta's river. : KENNEBEC
48
Orbit point, in astronomy. : SYZYGY
50
Times. : ERAS
51
Chemical abbreviation. : ATNO
52
German toast. : PROSIT
55
Current style in men's jackets. : UNPADDED
59
Famous vessel. : SANTAMARIA
61
Othello's ancient. : IAGO
62
Covering all items: Abbr. : INCL
63
Vedic goddess. : ADITI
64
Presently. : ANON
65
Sojourn. : STAY
66
Wanderer. : NOMAD
67
Playbill list. : CAST
Down
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Canal of Sweden. : GOTA
2
Newcastle-___-Tyne. : UPON
3
Catch. : LAND
4
Pewit. : PHOEBE
5
Collecting. : AMASSING
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Animal on a coin. : BISON
7
See 32 Across. : ASSN
8
Genevieve or Therese: Abbr. : STE
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Blue-flowered plant. : HYSSOP
10
Where to find coronas. : HUMIDORS
11
Bread spread. : OLEO
12
Nobel prize novelist. : MANN
13
Noun suffixes. : ENTS
19
Rebuke. : SCOLD
21
Italian name for Rhodes. : RODI
24
Type of key, in music. : MINOR
25
Command to a dog. : SPEAK
26
Start of Dickens title. : ATALE
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City in Georgia. : MACON
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Lancelot's last name. : DULAC
29
Indonesian language. : MALAY
30
With. : AMONG
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Like a lion. : TAWNY
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Photographer's specialty. : FACES
37
Frankly. : HONESTLY
39
Delivered free. : POSTPAID
42
Day on a church calendar. : FERIA
44
Relative of a starling. : MYNA
47
British orderly. : BATMAN
49
Astrology term. : ZODIAC
51
Santa ___. : ANITA
52
Greek letters. : PSIS
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Declaim loudly. : RANT
54
Portuguese ounce. : ONCA
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Old Testament object used in sacred lots. : URIM
56
Charles ___ Gibson. : DANA
57
Selves. : EGOS
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Forbidding word. : DONT
60
Pother. : ADO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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