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New York Times, Monday, August 19, 1968

53-Down : Full of tidings.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1968, The New York TimesNo. 6,946
Across
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Yum-Yum, for one. : MAID
5
American novelist. : OHARA
10
Jewish month. : ADAR
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Impulse. : URGE
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More peaked. : PALER
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S. Amer. monkey. : TITI
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Backslide. : FALLBEHIND
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Book of the Old Testament. : AMOS
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Groove in a shaft. : FLUTE
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Moslem prince. : AMEER
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Kind: Colloq. : ILK
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Peak. : ALP
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Favorably. : BENIGNLY
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Litter, for one. : EYESORE
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Collegiate initials. : NYU
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Highest point: Abbr. : MAX
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Candy flavoring. : WINTERGREEN
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Diminutive suffixes. : ULES
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"And ___ pray ... " : ONETO
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Whenever. : ONCE
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Complete reversal of opinion: Fig. : SUMMERSAULT
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G.P.'s. : DRS
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Young shark. : PUP
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Jittery. : NERVOUS
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Notations. : JOTTINGS
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She's so sweet. : SUE
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Prefix with corn or form. : UNI
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King mackerels. : CEROS
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Character in Golden Fleece legend. : MEDEA
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Kind of sign. : NEON
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Fountainhead. : WELLSPRING
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___ in (hippie imperative). : TUNE
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Sedate. : STAID
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Behold: Lat. : ECCE
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Chancel's neighbor. : APSE
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Scotland, et al. : YARDS
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Letters. : DEES
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Botch up. : MUFF
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Sea of Asia. : ARAL
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Northern home. : IGLU
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Alluvial deposits. : DELTAS
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Poetic "unclose." : OPE
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Mirthful sound. : HAHA
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Out on ___. : ALIMB
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French name. : RENEE
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Forest in Warwickshire. : ARDEN
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___ glance. : ATA
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Musical term. : DIMINUENDO
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Coral island. : ATOLL
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Precarious. : RISKY
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Unworthy of. : BELOW
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Word with finger or leader. : RING
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Church title. : PRIOR
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Spiral: Prefix. : GYRO
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Big birds. : EMUS
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River to the Yellow Sea. : YALU
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Big help at tax time. : EXEMPTIONS
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Danube tributary. : ENNS
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Bohea. : TEA
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Vingt-___. : ETUN
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Hero and heroine. : ROLES
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Color. : ECRU
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Noun suffix. : NESS
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Blacken. : SMUT
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Old style poem. : EPIC
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Good guy. : TRUMP
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Changed direction. : VEERED
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Cabal. : JUNTA
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Slightly ahead. : ONEUP
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Full of tidings. : NEWSY
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Form of Margaret. : GRETA
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Kind of energy. : SOLAR
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Moved easily. : SLID
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Do a kitchen chore. : DICE
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Noun suffix. : ENCE
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Thirty and others. : AGES
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Born. : NEE
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College degrees: Abbr. : SDS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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