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New York Times, Saturday, May 16, 1970

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 26, Avg Word Len: 5.69, Missing: { F J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 105, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13, Grid flow: 35.2
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,581
Across
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Detached : SEPARATE
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Crouton : SIPPET
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Recluses : EREMITES
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Ember : HOTASH
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Equivalencies : PARITIES
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"___ of Honey" : ATASTE
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Stage whispers : ASIDES
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Austen novel : EMMA
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Mend : SEW
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Small sleds : LUGES
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Scottish units : ANES
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Salvador : DALI
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Cupid : EROS
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World wide: Abbr. : INTL
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Seethes : BOILS
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Room : DEN
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Automobile part : RADIATORCAP
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Outward attitudes : DEMEANORS
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Pulitzer novel, 1939 : THEYEARLING
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Narrow inlet : RIA
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Doing a slow burn : RILED
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Weaver's reed : SLEY
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Mind : TEND
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Suffixes in chemistry : ATES
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Children : BOYS
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Zoo attraction : HIPPO
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Call ___ day : ITA
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Sharp flavor : TANG
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More withered: Var. : SEARER
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Yellow-flowered tree : LINDEN
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Resident of London : ONTARIAN
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Star-shaped figure : ETOILE
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Extent of shy person's social evening, perhaps : ONEDANCE
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Skin layers : DERMES
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Stripped down, as a ship : DEMASTED
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Like some flowers : SEPALED
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Use of a pencil's other end : ERASURE
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Angle of 360° : PERIGON
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Ammonia derivatives : AMIDES
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Ceremonies : RITES
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Panay natives : ATIS
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Links locale : TEE
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Favorable for the most part : ESSENTIALLYGOOD
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Hoaxes : SHAMS
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Jot : IOTA
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School org. : PTA
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Newark's river : PASSAIC
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Girl in "Great Expectations" : ESTELLA
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Will o' ___ : THEWISP
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Girls' names meaning blackness : MELANIES
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American dramatist : ANDERSON
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Diana of films : DORS
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"___ Camera" : IAMA
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Danish borough in England : BORG
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Knicks' Willis : REED
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Oscar's cousin : TONY
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Colors : DYES
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Followed : TRAILED
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Ancient Asia Minor empire : HITTITE
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One of the Roosevelts : ELEANOR
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Kind of circular : REPRINT
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" ... provide ___ what we need in war" : INPEACE
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Decorated : ADORNED
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Headpieces : TIARAS
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Poisons : BANES
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___ delegation : HEADA
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Prefix for graph or vision : TELE
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Plant part : STEM
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Murky : DIM
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Compass point : NNE

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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