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New York Times, Thursday, June 7, 1973

51-Down : Johnson

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
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© 1973, The New York TimesNo. 8,699
Across
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Guile : CRAFT
6
Bathes : TUBS
10
Particle : ATOM
14
Thread : LISLE
15
Jacob's brother : ESAU
16
Flatfish : SOLE
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Hurt : ACHED
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City south of Turin : ASTI
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Fissure : SLIT
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Turnpike sign : NOEXIT
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Do a Labrador job : RETRIEVE
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Red dye : EOSIN
26
South Pacific island : EASTER
27
Talk into : PERSUADE
30
Assemble : SIT
31
Mine yield : ORE
32
Express indignation : SNORT
34
Lake Geneva, to French : LEMAN
38
Legal right : LIEN
40
Dancer Ailey : ALVIN
42
Bones : DICE
43
Fisherman : EELER
45
Passover feast : SEDER
47
Agency of the 1930's : NRA
48
Wordplay : WIT
50
High-handed : CAVALIER
52
Stretching muscle : TENSOR
55
Milton's "Lycidas," for one : ELEGY
56
Response : REACTION
58
Sonata parts : RONDOS
62
Solo : ARIA
63
___ snuff : UPTO
65
Province of Italy : UDINE
66
Wire measures : MILS
67
Obligation : NEED
68
Keepsake : TOKEN
69
Nuisance : PEST
70
Slips : ERRS
71
Mortimer : SNERD
Down
1
Family : CLAN
2
Puerto ___ : RICO
3
Court man : ASHE
4
Shows one's muscles : FLEXES
5
Humdrum : TEDIOUS
6
Oolong : TEA
7
Kremlin : USSRNERVECENTER
8
Subside : BATE
9
Nutcracker and others : SUITES
10
Seconded : ASSISTED
11
House sign : TOLET
12
Sacred tree of Athena : OLIVE
13
Suffix for alti or chrono : METER
21
Ethiopian lake : TSANA
23
Marsh bird : RAIL
25
Adored ones : IDOLS
27
Opposing force : POLE
28
One of five : ERIE
29
Whirl : REEL
33
Kind of basin : TIDAL
35
Recent fashion : MINI
36
"God's Little ___" : ACRE
37
Close : NEAR
39
TV offering : NEWSCAST
41
"___ say die" : NEVER
44
Donnybrook : RIOT
46
Stews : RAGOUTS
49
Three in one : TRIUNE
51
Johnson : LYNDON
52
Vagabond : TRAMP
53
Weird : EERIE
54
Captures : NAILS
57
Music drama, in Berlin : OPER
59
Netherlands sight : DIKE
60
Outstanding thing : ONER
61
Forward : SEND
64
___ bodlkins, old oath : ODS

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