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New York Times, Saturday, October 23, 1965

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q W }, Scrabble score: 310 (avg 1.64)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 31.4 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1965, The New York TimesNo. 5,915
Across
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Buckeye State. : OHIO
5
American-born Japanese. : KIBEI
10
Joyous. : GLAD
14
Deplorable behavior. : BADMANNERS
16
Where the Corso is. : ROMA
17
Like certain dresses. : SLEEVELESS
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At all. : EVER
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Alone. : SOLELY
20
Increase. : AUGMENT
22
Photographer's abbreviation. : ENL
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Symbol of hardness. : STEEL
24
Skye dwellers. : SCOTS
27
Namely. : VIZ
28
French exclamation. : TIENS
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___ les jours (every day): Fr. : TOUS
33
Repair. : FIX
34
Sarge, for one. : NONCOM
35
Wife of Saturn. : OPS
36
Writer Allingham's sleuth. : CAMPION
38
Brooklyn college. : LIU
39
School of acting. : METHOD
41
Furthermore. : AND
42
Bygone. : PAST
43
Genus of geese. : ANSER
44
Banking abbreviation. : PCT
45
Adduces. : CITES
46
Former Soviet delegate to U.N. : MALIK
48
___ ami. : MON
49
Sweet yeast bread. : STOLLEN
52
Finnish baths. : SAUNAS
55
Half: Prefix. : HEMI
56
Certain signatures. : AUTOGRAPHS
59
Farmer's team. : OXEN
60
Show indifference: Colloq. : PLAYITCOOL
61
Being: Fr. : ETRE
62
Pinnacle of ice. : SERAC
63
Notice. : ESPY
Down
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Passé: Abbr. : OBS
2
Haarlem painter. : HALS
3
Thought: Prefix. : IDEO
4
Souffles' cousins. : OMELETS
5
What the "curfew tolls." : KNELL
6
Within: Poet. : INLY
7
Paragon of activity. : BEE
8
Substitute. : ERSATZ
9
Problem. : ISSUE
10
Meddlesome creature. : GREMLIN
11
Term in tennis. : LOVE
12
Verily. : AMEN
13
Tapered dress seam. : DART
15
Plant of the rose family. : AVENS
21
Make progress. : GETON
23
Beverage quantity. : SIXPACK
24
Breathing pore, in plants. : STOMA
25
Shade of blue. : COPEN
26
Evicts. : OUSTS
27
Energy. : VIM
29
Acclaim. : ECLAT
30
Bang-bang. : NOISE
31
Notable name in South Africa. : SMUTS
33
Passing fashion. : FAD
34
Be very sleepy. : NOD
36
Lobster delicacy. : CORAL
37
Banking abbreviation. : INT
40
Couturier's concern. : HEMLINE
42
Small sailboat. : PINNACE
44
Small fin: Var. : PINULE
45
St. James, for one : COURT
47
Partner of bounds. : LEAPS
48
Hocus-pocus. : MAGIC
49
Mule. : SHOE
50
Kind of book. : TEXT
51
Old Hebrew measure. : OMER
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___ sauce. : SOYA
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Mark of possessive case: Abbr. : APOS
54
Plant. : SHOP
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Old salt. : TAR
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Evasive. : SLY

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

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