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New York Times, Tuesday, March 29, 1960

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 331 (avg 1.75)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 17.1
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© 1960, The New York TimesNo. 3,910
Across
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Adriatic seaport. : BARI
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Jargon. : CANT
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Unexpected defeat. : UPSET
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Very dark. : EBON
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Always. : EVER
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Best of a class, group, etc. : PRIDE
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Sound effect in a Western. : CLOP
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Spirited. : RACY
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"The goose ___ high." : HANGS
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NATO air-raider base in Iceland. : KEFLAVIK
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Part of a candlestick. : SOCKET
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Dyestuff. : ANIL
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Cast off, as skin, horns, etc. : MOLT
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___ words. : PLAYON
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Capulets and Montagues, for example. : FEUDISTS
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Member of the board: Abbr. : SEC
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Run away. : DECAMP
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Quick cut. : CHOP
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Business firm. : HOUSE
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Stretch. : LIE
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Describing the toucan. : BEAKY
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Contra. : ANTI
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Eight bits. : DOLLAR
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North Dakota crop. : RYE
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Condition of an ideal garden. : WEEDLESS
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Son of Ivan the Terrible. : FEODOR
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German article. : EINE
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Outline. : PLAN
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Curving and bending. : TWISTY
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Nonsense. : FLIMFLAM
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The bird in "Peter and the Wolf." : SASHA
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Jolly Roger. : FLAG
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Cash in Naples. : LIRE
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Tree with nutlike seeds. : PINON
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Book of the Bible. : RUTH
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Hot-air chamber. : OVEN
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Describing March weather. : SNOWY
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Edible root. : BEET
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Where the Dodgers went. : WEST
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Call's partner. : BECK
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One of the space monkeys : ABLE
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Mansard. : ROOF
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Term in basketball. : INPLAY
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Deerlike. : CERVINE
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Bestead. : AVAIL
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Great ___, N. Y. : NECK
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Effort. : TRY
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Confirm. : UPHOLD
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Follow a profession. : PRACTICE
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Subside. : SINK
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Sharpness. : EDGE
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Experiment. : TEST
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Positive electrode. : ANODE
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Mulligatawny. : SOUP
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Lithuanian port. : MEMEL
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Exclamation of impatience. : PSHAW
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Sierra ___. : LEONE
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Shrill. : ACUTE
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Disappoints. : FAILS
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Broken piece, as of pottery. : SHARD
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Most populous city in the world. : TOKYO
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Relative of an eavesdropper. : SPYER
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Nearly equal. : CLOSE
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Adjunct of the big top. : SIDESHOW
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Fresh-water sunfish. : BREAM
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Controvert. : DENY
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Fleeing. : AFLIGHT
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Prayer. : LITANY
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Continual stream. : ONFLOW
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Full-page book illustration. : PLATE
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Measures in cookery: Abbr. : TSPS
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Old-time wagon. : WAIN
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"There ___ truth in him." : ISNO
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Hot air pipe. : FLUE
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Energetic. : LIVE
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Olympian deity. : ARES
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Noun suffix. : MENT
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U. S. fiscal agency. : FRB

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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