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New York Times, Saturday, July 15, 1972

12-Down : What a certain Jack isn't

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { B F J K Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 241 (avg 1.30)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid is asymmetric.
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,372
Across
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Cultivated : RAISED
7
Intellectual ones : MINDS
12
"Medium" composer : MENOTTI
13
Balzac : HONORE
14
Telescope devices : ALINERS
15
Old Syrian tongue : ARAMAIC
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___ aside : SET
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Peace Nobelist of 1957 : PEARSON
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Writer Tarbell : IDA
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Covering, for short : TARP
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Convenes : SITS
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Beasts of burden: Fr. : ANES
25
Biblical brother : ESAU
26
Heater : ETNA
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Girl's name : ADELE
28
Take five : REST
29
Bridge-score unit : LEG
30
Irrational numbers : SURDS
31
Alessandro or Domenico of music : SCARLATTI
34
Sing, thirties' style : CROON
36
Tokyo, once : EDO
37
Buzzing : AHUM
41
Big bills, for short : THOUS
42
Coronation, for one : GALA
43
Goose of Hawaii : NENE
44
Transported : RAPT
45
Literature Nobelist, 1947 : GIDE
46
Lip : SASS
47
Hibernia: Abbr. : IRE
48
Scandal subterfuge : COVERUP
51
___ volente : DEO
52
Veteran : OLDTIMER
54
Ethel of stage : MERMAN
56
Father of Rhesus : EIONEUS
57
Dress features : PLEATS
58
Derisive looks : SNEERS
59
O'Faoláin et al. : SEANS
Down
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Publicity item : RELEASE
2
"___ Dance" : ANITRAS
3
Condition: Suffix : ION
4
"___ lively, please" : STEP
5
Common French verb : ETRE
6
Titanic sinking, for one : DISASTER
7
Sulu natives : MOROS
8
___ instant : INAN
9
___ de guerre : NOM
10
Exhausted : DRAINED
11
Brauhaus items : SEIDELS
12
What a certain Jack isn't : MASTER
13
___ luego (good-by) : HASTA
16
Accusative, for one : CASE
19
Plot organizers : RINGLEADERS
22
Inconveniences : PUTSOUT
24
Names of early Popes : ADRIANS
26
Impetuosity : ELAN
27
Self-acting: Prefix : AUT
30
Portico : STOA
32
Romaine lettuce : COS
33
Psychiatrist Alfred : ADLER
34
Elizabeth's son : CHARLES
35
Swindled : ROPEDIN
38
Top of the tribe : HEADMAN
39
Defeats in a way : UNSEATS
40
Electronic particles : MESONS
41
Musical group : TRIO
42
"___ this day our ... " : GIVEUS
45
Pyle of TV show : GOMER
48
Movies, in France : CINE
49
Baseball figures : UMPS
50
Soccer star of Brazil : PELE
53
Kind of hold or dance : TOE
55
Cartoonist Gardner : REA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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