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New York Times, Thursday, November 16, 1972

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 47.5
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,496
Across
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Sugar bowls : SUCRIERS
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Swelterer's remark : PHEW
13
Behind the eightball : UPTHECREEK
15
Plate of an astrolabe : RETE
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Identify : PUTONESFINGERON
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100 square meters : ARE
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Where a cockney lives : OME
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Starlite and hyacinth : ZIRCONS
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Try hard : STRIVE
23
Lacking, with "of" : DEVOID
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Minstrel-show instrument : BANJO
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Legal excuse, in England : ESSOIN
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Wordless : TACIT
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Duck genus : ANAS
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Part of a Chinese name : TSE
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Residence : ABODE
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U. N. name : DAG
37
Philanderers : ROUES
39
Get-up-and-go : PEP
40
Greek letter : BETA
41
Incipience : ONSET
42
Pass : ELAPSE
45
Offset : ERASE
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Way : COURSE
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Dormice : LEROTS
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Transoceanic : OVERSEA
55
Focal point : HUB
56
Neckpiece : LEI
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Jacob ___, social worker : RIIS
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___ around (repetition) : SECONDTIME
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Noun suffix : ENCE
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Salad ingredients : RADISHES
Down
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Burst of activity : SPURT
2
Complete : UTTER
3
Part of an operatic name : CHO
4
Refurbish : RENOVATE
5
Obsolescent dealers : ICEMEN
6
Gaelic : ERSE
7
Ump's relative : REF
8
Confiscate : SEIZE
9
Summary : PRECIS
10
"Father of History" : HERODOTUS
11
School founded by Henry VI : ETON
12
Cysts : WENS
13
Poisonous tree : UPAS
14
Cutlery : KNIVES
17
Cross-ribbed silk : GROS
22
Footnote abbr. : IBID
23
Gift getter : DONATEE
25
Gem : JADE
27
Listener's phrase : ISEE
28
___-ce pas? : NEST
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Put on film : TAPE
30
Biblical name : ABEL
31
Right on : COPACETIC
33
Chinese gelatin : AGAR
37
"Gather ye ___" : ROSEBUDS
38
Great guy : ONER
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Green ___ : BERETS
43
Full of interstices : POROSE
44
Blind cetacean : SUSU
46
Grad : ALUMNI
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Less hazardous : SAFER
50
Trite thing : OLDIE
51
Swarms : TEEMS
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Progenitor : SIRE
53
Dreaded person : OGRE
54
Style : VEIN
55
Headgear : HOOD
58
Electronics initials : RCA
59
Degree : NTH

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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