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New York Times, Tuesday, July 4, 1961

40-Down : Flaw in a legal document.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 29, Avg Word Len: 5.44, Missing: { Q W X }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 88, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
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© 1961, The New York TimesNo. 4,372
Across
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Peer into outer space. : UPGAZE
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Winter resort feature. : SKISLOPE
15
Old salt. : SEADOG
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Not set upright. : UNREARED
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Denouement. : ENDING
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Counter tendency. : REACTION
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Colorless. : TAME
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Midwest college town. : AMES
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Hour: Lat. : HORA
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Cruiser of a sort. : CAB
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Certificate for fractions of shares of stock. : SCRIP
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Fleur-___. : DELIS
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Eager. : AGOG
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Risky. : UNSAFE
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Lunch. : EAT
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Theme of a 1941 address to Congress. : FOURFREEDOMS
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Involve. : ENTAIL
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Latin-American painter. : RIVERA
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Radio identification of our astronauts. : FREEDOMSEVEN
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Federal agency established 1887. : ICC
46
List of mistakes with corrections. : ERRATA
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Inland state of Saudi Arabia. : NEJD
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Namesakes of Ibsen heroine. : NORAS
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Santa ___. : ANITA
52
Rob ___. : ROY
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Plum pudding ingredient. : SUET
54
Name for Thames River above Oxford. : ISIS
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Chevalier encore. : MIMI
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Type of blow. : UPPERCUT
59
"Three ___ Horse." : MENONA
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Source of danger to ships in stormy weather. : LEESHORE
62
French classicist painter. : INGRES
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Old Italian coins. : TESTONES
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Relatives of chargers. : STEEDS
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Habit. : USE
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McNamara's bailiwick. : PENTAGON
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Roving. : GADABOUT
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Take ___ view of. : ADIM
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Regions. : ZONES
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Humpty Dumpty. : EGG
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Guess. : SURMISE
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Protection for a basketball player. : KNEEPAD
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Character in "Antony and Cleopatra." : IRAS
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Federal agency established 1934. : SEC
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Piece of workshop equipment. : LATHE
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Babe Ruth, in 1914. : ORIOLE
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Home of Bradley University. : PEORIA
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___ Vincent Millay. : EDNAST
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Composer of "Rule, Britannia!" : ARNE
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___ noir. : CAFE
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Beauty aid. : CURLER
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Prefixes meaning "half." : DEMIS
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Continental earl. : GRAF
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Pattern of a TV show. : FORMAT
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Launches, as a rocket. : FIRES
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Swedish explorer, ___ Hedin. : SVEN
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Always. : EVERMORE
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Answered. : REJOINED
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Radio character. : ANDY
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Flaw in a legal document. : ERASURE
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Israelite tribe. : DANITES
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Revolutionary statesman. : OTIS
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Affront. : INSULT
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Quick motion in dancing: Var. : COUPEE
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Dress fabrics. : CREPES
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Nuclear experiment. : ATEST
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Catkin. : AMENT
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Portrait. : ICON
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American dramatist. : INGE
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Greek letter. : RHO
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Wrong: Prefix. : MIS
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Equine animal. : ASS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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