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New York Times, Thursday, July 8, 1971

10-Down : Slacken

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { J Q V Y Z }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
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© 1971, The New York TimesNo. 7,999
Across
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Edge of a cliff : BROW
5
Search widely : COMB
9
Strikes : SLAPS
14
Western ridge : LOMA
15
Jewish month : ADAR
16
Ancient serf : HELOT
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Discharge : EMIT
18
Russian river : LENA
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In harmony : ATONE
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Crushing defeats : WATERLOOS
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Numbskull : DUNCE
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Control : REIN
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Makeshift : STOPGAP
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Sewing-machine part : BOBBIN
29
Grub : CHOW
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Mean ones : OGRES
31
Places for admirals : FLAGSHIPS
36
Direct : LEAD
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Deer tracks : SLOTS
38
Of a verse : ODIC
39
Haberdasheries : MENSSHOPS
41
___ jure : PLENO
42
Courts : WOOS
43
First-born : ELDEST
44
Deliberate : STUDIED
48
Kind of poke : SLOW
49
Ecclesiastical law : CANON
50
Way to spend money : LIKEWATER
55
Irritating : APING
56
Slip ___ : ACOG
57
Vehicle : TAXI
58
Climbing vine : LIANE
59
Middle: Prefix : MEDI
60
"Idylls" heroine : ENID
61
" ... ye who ___ here" : ENTER
62
Map : PLAT
63
Scold : RATE
Down
1
Scrammed : BLEW
2
City on Italian map : ROMA
3
Fail to do : OMIT
4
Liquid assets of a sort : WATERBEDS
5
Collect : CALLIN
6
Keats's "___ Insolence" : ODEON
7
___ War : MANO
8
Military wheels : BRASSHATS
9
Follows secretly : SHADOWS
10
Slacken : LETUP
11
"It's been ___ time" : ALONG
12
Nebraskan Indian : PONCA
13
Exorbitant : STEEP
21
Old Portuguese money : REIS
25
Clothes : TOGS
26
Swedish lake : BOLM
27
Curved molding : OGEE
28
Wheat by-product : BRAN
29
Horse sounds : CLOPS
31
Large-area illuminator : FLOODLAMP
32
Be logical : HOLDWATER
33
___ fixe : IDEE
34
Fasteners : PINS
35
Britisher : SCOT
37
Loafer : SHOE
40
Good-time Charlie : SWINGER
41
Farm implement : PLOW
43
Legal writ : ELEGIT
44
Ascend : SCALE
45
Basketball maneuver : TAPIN
46
Eastern Christian : UNIAT
47
English poet : DONNE
48
Czech arms name : SKODA
51
Reykjavik's country: Abbr. : ICEL
52
Ethiopian lake : TANA
53
Theater sign : EXIT
54
Revere's thing : RIDE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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