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New York Times, Thursday, February 8, 1973

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 61.5 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
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© 1973, The New York TimesNo. 8,580
Across
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Tolerate : BEAR
5
French bill of fare : CARTE
10
Denounce, with "at" : RAIL
14
River to the Ligurian Sea : ARNO
15
Nom de plume : ALIAS
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Within: Prefix : ENDO
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Versatile one : JACKOFALLTRADES
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Bat wood : ASH
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Whale : CETE
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Hill builder : EMMET
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Portly : OBESE
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Oil center : TULSA
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Sawfish snout : SERRA
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Lorna of fiction : DOONE
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Direction: Abbr. : SSW
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Floor sweepers of a sort : TRAINS
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Right: Prefix : RECT
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French tea : THE
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Fad : RAGE
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Hawthorne girl : HILDA
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Withered : SERE
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Consumed : ATE
43
Incomparable : RARE
44
Matched : PAIRED
46
Meadow grass : POA
47
Kind of stew : IRISH
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___ hot and cold : BLOWS
50
Oodles : LOADS
52
Reserved : ALOOF
54
Nautical call : AVAST
56
Turkish V.I.P. : AMIR
57
Insect egg : NIT
60
Bad guesses : MISCALCULATIONS
64
Aleutian island : ATKA
65
___ space : OUTER
66
Weight of Brazil : ONCA
67
Guard or admiral : REAR
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Leopard's pride : SPOTS
69
Kind of miss : NEAR
Down
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___ California : BAJA
2
Significant periods : ERAS
3
City hit by 1964 quake : ANCHORAGEALASKA
4
Korean soldier : ROK
5
Cabarets : CAFES
6
Having wings : ALATED
7
Vex : RILE
8
Hindu cymbals : TAL
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Id ___ : EST
10
Enlarges a bore : REAMS
11
Rider to 17 Across : ANDMASTEROFNONE
12
French notion : IDEE
13
Bewildered : LOST
18
Larger quantity : OCEAN
19
Lease anew : RELET
24
Cheese : BRIE
25
___ the line : TOED
26
Use an opener : UNCAP
27
Type of hinge : STRAP
28
Muse of poetry : ERATO
30
Escutcheon bands : ORLES
32
Virago : SHREW
33
Does a garden job : WEEDS
35
Fragment of china : SHARD
40
Rainbow : IRIS
41
Missile housing : SILO
43
Cowboy's equipment : RIATA
45
Scrub a space mission : ABORT
48
Village : HAMLET
51
Statuette of note : OSCAR
53
Perjurers : LIARS
54
Measures of Sweden : AMAR
55
Quickly, in France : VITE
56
Kind of suggestion : AUTO
58
Indian of S. A. : INCA
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Dictator : TSAR
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Spanish article : LOS
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Chalice : CUP
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Electrified atom : ION

Answer summary:
3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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