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New York Times, Saturday, January 1, 1972

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 313 (avg 1.69)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 22.1
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,176
Across
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Bridge call : PASS
5
Made solemn : AWED
9
Relative of puss or pan : PHIZ
13
Buddhist sacred mountain : OMEI
14
Fruit dots : SORI
15
Buy and sell : TRADE
16
Harvest feast, in Scotland : KIRN
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Fairway feature : TRAP
18
Disturbs : ROILS
19
Puzzles : ENIGMAS
21
Chuck-wagon item : SKILLET
23
Mediocre : OFSORTS
25
Bee: Prefix : API
26
Canticle : ODE
27
Current year : MCMLXXII
32
Endured : BORNE
35
Misrepresent : BELIE
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Habitat: Prefix : ECO
37
Eager : AGOG
38
Printed fabric : BATIK
39
Gist of a matter : KNOT
40
Become fixed : SET
41
Do a new bugging job : RETAP
42
City in India : POONA
43
Intensify : HEIGHTEN
45
Exclamation of contempt : POH
46
Caviar : ROE
47
Pardon : ABSOLVE
51
Without breaks : SOLIDLY
55
Paperback, usually : REPRINT
57
Shade of green : OLIVE
58
___ près (nearly): Fr. : APEU
60
Noun suffix : ANCE
61
Egyptian dancing girls : ALMES
62
Blue dyestuff : WOAD
63
British cowbarn : BYRE
64
Fully absorbed : RAPT
65
Italian resort : LIDO
66
French aits : ILES
Down
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Place for a pig : POKE
2
Kind of acid : AMINO
3
Printing stroke : SERIF
4
Like an auctioneer's voice : SINGSONG
5
Gazing : ASTARE
6
Overthrow : WORST
7
Christian or Victorian : ERA
8
Snack-tray mixtures : DIPS
9
Wordy : PROLIX
10
Greet : HAIL
11
Shiftless : IDLE
12
Spirited enjoyment : ZEST
15
Certain hit : TRIPLE
20
Vogue : MODE
22
Eskimo boat : KAMIK
24
"Bartered Bride" composer : SMETANA
28
Football infraction : CLIP
29
Foreign: Prefix : XENO
30
Image : ICON
31
Least bit : IOTA
32
Wingding : BASH
33
Molding : OGEE
34
French menu word : ROTI
35
Restrain : BATE
38
Kind of nut or palm : BETEL
39
Bulby vegetable : KOHLRABI
41
Colossus's place : RHODES
42
Tire : POOP
44
Intelligent monkey : GRIVET
45
Fake : PSEUDO
48
Pumpernickel : BREAD
49
Plastic : VINYL
50
French writing fluid : ENCRE
51
Tower : SOAR
52
Earthen pot : OLLA
53
Flabby : LIMP
54
Jolly boat : YAWL
56
Gadgets for Trevino : TEES
59
Kanaka fare : POI

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

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