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New York Times, Saturday, June 5, 1965

42-Down : Essay.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F H K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
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© 1965, The New York TimesNo. 5,788
Across
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Part of a rifle. : BUTT
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City in N. E. Italy. : UDINE
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Clean, as decks. : SWAB
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Knockout of a sort. : ONER
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Conducted, as wires. : LEDIN
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Popular cartoonist. : ARNO
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Purely personal. : STRICTLYPRIVATE
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Kind of punishment. : CORPORAL
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___ with (equal to). : ONAPAR
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Grassland. : LEA
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Small mollusk. : SLUG
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Charger. : STEED
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Taste. : SIP
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Rightly: Lat. : RECTE
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Sculls. : OARS
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Symbol of rank. : STRIPE
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Strength. : ARM
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Sgt. or cpl. : NCO
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Specialized in studies. : MAJORED
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Hoover or Norris. : DAM
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Vets. : GIS
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Laundry worker. : IRONER
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Host. : ARMY
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Direct. : STEER
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Burro. : ASS
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Measures. : STEPS
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Facial expression. : GRIN
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Grain. : OAT
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Put (something) ___. : OVERON
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York, for one. : SERGEANT
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Part of the U.N. : GENERALASSEMBLY
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Tribe or clan. : GENS
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Musical term. : LENTO
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Marshall ___. : PLAN
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Cleo's maid. : IRAS
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Lured. : LEDON
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Mal de ___. : TETE
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Kind of pear. : BOSC
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"Render therefore ___ Caesar ... " : UNTO
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Region: Abbr. : TERR
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Certain hits. : TRIPLES
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Extreme. : ULTRA
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___ Warr. : DELA
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Pastoral poem. : IDYL
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Frost. : NIP
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Sign up. : ENROL
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Wild. : SAVAGE
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Stole. : WRAP
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Theater group. : ANTA
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___ War. : BOER
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Certain student. : COED
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Hardened. : INURED
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Sharp tips. : SPIRES
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"Over There" and others. : SONGS
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Unspoken. : TACIT
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Like some leaves: Bot. : EROSE
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Shaw heroine. : STJOAN
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Old military punishment. : IRONS
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Officers, collectively. : CADRE
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March sound. : TRAMP
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TV awards. : EMMYS
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Patriotic org. : SAR
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For each. : PER
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Reflect. : MIRROR
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Essay. : ATTEMPT
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Way out. : EGRESS
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Desert plant. : SAGE
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Totalling. : INALL
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Bean. : ORSON
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Today, in Italy. : OGGI
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Shift. : VEER
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Sicilian city. : ENNA
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Color. : SAND
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This: Sp. : ESTO
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Skilled. : ABLE
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Map abbreviation. : NLAT
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Newcastle's river. : TYNE
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Historic commander. : LEE

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2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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