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New York Times, Wednesday, September 5, 1962

10-Down : Matinee idol.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 302 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,800
Across
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Is wearing. : HASON
6
N. Y. or N. Y. C. : ABBR
10
Resting on. : ATOP
14
In rapport. : ATONE
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Item for 30 Across. : CLUE
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Child's parental greeting. : DADA
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Pirate-flag emblem. : SKULL
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Coins. : HARDMONEY
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Stassen. : HAROLD
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Suppress. : STRANGLE
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Evening party. : SOIREE
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Baltimore ballplayer. : ORIOLE
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Iowan. : HAWKEYE
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Specks. : DOTS
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Bide ___. : AWEE
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Sherlock. : SLEUTH
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"___ Ballads." : BAB
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Cultivators. : HOERS
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Buddy. : PAL
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Have ___. : ACARE
40
High in pitch. : ALT
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Burden of a song. : CHORUS
44
Pearl Buck heroine. : OLAN
45
Smell ___ (suspect). : ARAT
46
Ship's spar. : TOPMAST
48
Trapper. : SNARER
51
Shrill outcry. : SHRIEK
52
Algonquian Indian. : KICKAPOO
54
___ Island, now Liberty Island. : BEDLOE
57
Silver-lining seekers. : OPTIMISTS
59
Crown jewel. : TIARA
60
"And boiled in ___." : APOT
61
Biblical patriarch. : SETH
62
Dreams: Fr. : REVES
63
Cithara. : LYRE
64
Ancient Ionian city. : TEOS
65
Indian. : OSAGE
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Dinner dish. : HASH
2
Aleutian island. : ATKA
3
Kind of pickle. : SOURSWEET
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Spectator. : ONLOOKER
5
Baseball's Mr. Fox. : NELLIE
6
Alas: Ger. : ACH
7
Indifferent. : BLASE
8
Lancaster. : BURT
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Perennial herb. : REDROOT
10
Matinee idol. : ADONIS
11
Argentine dance. : TANGO
12
Governor of New York, 1900. : ODELL
13
IOU holder. : PAYEE
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First First Lady. : MARTHA
21
Prohibitionists. : DRYS
24
Fishing device. : EELPOT
26
Derisive laugh. : HAHA
27
Military problem, for short. : AWOL
28
Great Lakes iron ore center. : DULUTH
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Projecting lug. : EAR
32
Where the Light Brigade charged. : BALAKLAVA
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Macaws. : ARAS
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Crooked. : BENT
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See 51 Across. : SCREAM
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Broadway fare. : COMEDIES
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Musician of a sort. : HARPIST
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Tree of the apple family. : SORB
45
Voyager with Noah. : ARKITE
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Composer Mascagni. : PIETRO
48
Toast. : SKOAL
49
Biting. : NIPPY
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Thespian. : ACTOR
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Under: It. : SOTTO
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Greek form of Hosea. : OSEE
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State: Abbr. : OREG
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Comfort. : EASE
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Sibilant sounds. : SHS

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

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