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New York Times, Friday, December 2, 1955

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13
David Steinberg notes:

Original 32-Across clue had "anthing"; corrected it to "anything."

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C
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N
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U
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P
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W
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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,348
Across
1
Prominent golfer. : BOROS
6
Heroes of 1918. : AEF
9
Big name in steel. : OLDS
13
Clay for brickmaking. : ADOBE
14
"Ye ___ tea shoppe." : OLDE
15
True: Poetic. : LEAL
16
Home of the Yankees. : NEWENGLAND
18
Gibson's middle name. : DANA
19
Person whose warnings are disregarded. : CASSANDRA
20
All: Latin. : OMNIS
21
Base in Greenland. : ETAH
22
Old ___, the Devil. : SCRATCH
24
Heart of the matter. : NUB
27
And others: Lat. abbr. : ETAL
29
Relative of R.O.T.C. : OCS
30
Collars or jackets. : ETONS
32
Worshipers of anything new. : NEOLATERS
37
Decline. : WANE
38
Muddle. : ADDLE
39
Old World cheese. : EDAM
40
Ireland. : THEOLDSOD
42
Face the new day. : ARISE
43
Cover. : LID
44
Nabobs: Slang. : NOBS
46
Thackeray's "___ Newcomes." : THE
47
Mount Vernon's river. : POTOMAC
51
Dickens' Miss Dartle. : ROSA
53
Representation. : IMAGE
54
Nearly neutral gray. : OLDSILVER
59
Half: Prefix. : SEMI
60
A modern tongue. : NEWENGLISH
61
Golden and Bronze. : AGES
62
Scent. : ODOR
63
Two words from Hamlet. : NOTTO
64
Creator of GOP elephant. : NAST
65
Compass direction. : WSW
66
Charger. : STEED
Down
1
Judge's bench. : BANC
2
Music halls. : ODEA
3
Certain streets. : ROWS
4
Corpulent. : OBESE
5
Groups of 96. : SENATES
6
Winged. : ALAR
7
Mrs. Stengel and namesakes. : EDNAS
8
Nourished. : FED
9
Rembrandt, for instance. : OLDMASTER
10
Inclined. : LEANT
11
Jutlandish. : DANIC
12
Reduce drastically. : SLASH
14
Practiced persons. : OLDHANDS
17
Midge. : GNAT
20
Killer whale. : ORCA
23
A certain old king. : COLE
24
Salamander. : NEWT
25
Gov. Lee's state. : UTAH
26
Old Mother Hubbard's request. : BONE
28
Induced to proceed. : LEDON
31
Coiner of words. : NEOLOGIST
33
It "changeth." : OLDORDER
34
Prepare news for print. : EDIT
35
Imprudent. : RASH
36
Captain Hook's assistant. : SMEE
38
Po tributary. : ADDA
41
Source of vitamin C. : LIME
42
Designates. : ASSIGNS
45
Petty officer, for short. : BOSN
47
Italian. : PISAN
48
Next after psi. : OMEGA
49
Domesticates. : TAMES
50
Certain students. : COEDS
52
Give a share of. : ALLOT
55
City Poland ceded to U.S.S.R. in '45. : LWOW
56
Speedy: French. : VITE
57
Beatrice d'___. : ESTE
58
Rose-red: Comb. form. : RHOD
60
Today. : NOW

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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