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New York Times, Thursday, December 9, 1971

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 22.3
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© 1971, The New York TimesNo. 8,153
Across
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Political group : BLOC
5
Way to cook : STEAM
10
Rum cake : BABA
14
City in Kansas : IOLA
15
Day after dimanche : LUNDI
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Image : ICON
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Standout : ONER
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Berry for wine or jelly : ELDER
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Breton or Gael : CELT
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Salad dressing, with "green" : GODDESS
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Card game for two : ECARTE
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Jot : IOTA
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Imitator : APER
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Gallant : MANLY
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Sauce of onions : SOUBISE
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Vichy premier : LAVAL
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Repair again : REFIX
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Spread hay : TED
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Indigo : ANIL
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Ease up : RELAX
38
Storage place : BARN
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Japanese name : ITO
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S.A. beast : TAPIR
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Dessert sauce : MELBA
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Like the inside of a bowl : CONCAVE
44
Weathervanes : COCKS
45
Greeting to Hitler : HEIL
46
Thin coat of paint : WASH
47
Alaskan strait : BERING
50
Sauce ___, for seafood : TARTARE
53
City of Ukraine : LVOV
54
Swan Lake heroine : ODILE
56
A la ___ : MODE
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"Watch ___ step" : YOUR
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Kind of pole : TOTEM
60
State: Fr. : ETAT
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Alluring : SEXY
62
Uneven : EROSE
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Kind of bean : LIMA
Down
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Life story, for short : BIO
2
Louisiana name : LONG
3
Table standby : OLEO
4
Kind of colored sauce : CARDINAL
5
Inclement : SLEETY
6
Oil city : TULSA
7
Odds' partners : ENDS
8
Humorist George : ADE
9
Mixture with braised meat : MIREPOIX
10
Morning-after dose : BICARB
11
Tree genus : ACER
12
Eat hurriedly : BOLT
13
Poker term : ANTE
21
Toy : DOLL
23
French pronoun : CEUX
25
"___ as I know" : ASFAR
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Royal cloak: It. : MANTO
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Par ___ (air mail) : AVION
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"___ to the trees" : ITALK
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Belgrade people : SERBS
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Ferber : EDNA
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Secular : LAIC
33
Ward off : REPEL
34
Hebrew judge : ELI
37
Vinaigrette sauce with herbs, etc. : RAVIGOTE
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Basic French white sauce : BECHAMEL
40
Captured, to poets : TAEN
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Majority : MOST
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Herbal white wine sauce : CHIVRY
44
Famous French chef : CAREME
46
Burton's birthplace : WALES
47
Writer Nellie et al. : BLYS
48
Bacchanals' cry : EVOE
49
Soup thickener : ROUX
50
Belgrade name : TITO
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Roast, in Paris : ROTI
52
Cheese : EDAM
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Beetle : DOR
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Greek letter : ETA

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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