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New York Times, Wednesday, August 10, 1966

40-Down : Innocents.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.34, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
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© 1966, The New York TimesNo. 6,206
Across
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Modern roundabout. : ORBIT
6
Spokes. : RADII
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Hades of Roman myth. : AVERNUS
13
Usual result of one-man rule. : TYRANNY
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Third tone of a musical scale. : MEDIANT
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Go back over. : RETRACE
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Dress goods. : PRINT
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Verse. : ODE
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Former sultan of Turkey. : SELIM
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Wagtail. : LARK
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Rotates. : SPINS
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Dice throw. : SISE
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Conceit. : EGO
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Barmaid of yore. : TAPSTER
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Reverse of: Prefix. : NON
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Salad greens. : ENDIVES
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By no means. : NEVER
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Works of Hawthorne, Mark Twain, etc. : AMERICANA
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Hungered (for). : PINED
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Power. : POTENCY
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Shopper's need. : BAG
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Father of the Titans in Greek myth. : OURANOS
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Loosen soil, in a way. : HOE
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Tiny amount. : ATOM
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Saint. : PETER
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European: Abbr. : TEUT
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Basque wear. : BERET
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___ canto. : BEL
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Common verbal contraction. : ARENT
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Tending to wear away. : EROSIVE
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Widen. : ENLARGE
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Fiendish. : SATANIC
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Friends of the doughboys. : TOMMIES
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City east of Duisburg. : ESSEN
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Aura material. : VAPOR
Down
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Surplus. : OVERAGE
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Hematite. : REDIRON
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Edge. : BRINK
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___ the finish. : INAT
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Large container. : TUN
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Westchester County city. : RYE
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College courses. : ARTS
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Challenges. : DARES
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Queued up. : INALINE
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Tooth. : INCISOR
11
Abundant. : AMPLE
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Plug. : STOPPER
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Nottingham's river. : TRENT
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Near East country. : YEMEN
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Waste. : DISSIPATE
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Acquired a nest egg. : SAVEDUP
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One in a hundred. : SENATOR
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I fear: Lat. : TIMEO
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Le Sage and others. : RENES
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Son of Jacob. : DAN
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Large truck. : VAN
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Small fruit of a tree. : CONELET
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Ancient saucer-like dishes. : PATERAE
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Inhabitants of Luzon. : IGOROTS
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Piccadilly farewell. : CHEERIO
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Less experienced. : YOUNGER
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Innocents. : BABES
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Old stringed instrument. : REBEC
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Diminutive endings. : ETTES
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Plateaus. : MESAS
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Hike. : TRAMP
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Spike. : TINE
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Associated with mater. : ALMA
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___ rouge, relative of Chianti. : VIN
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Fiction writer: Abbr. : NOV

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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