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New York Times, Saturday, May 2, 1970

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 94, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10, Grid flow: 26.6
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,567
Across
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Précis : SYNOPSIS
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Irritability : CHOLER
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Chest dressing : POULTICE
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Woolly : LANOSE
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Makes passé : OUTDATES
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Worker in oils : ARTIST
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Steak order : RARE
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Reproduction : ECTYPE
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Area of Italy : TOE
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Biblical judge : ELI
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Oranges' neighbors on spectrum : REDS
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Wet and Little Red : HENS
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Rebuke : SLAP
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Certain docs : VETS
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Deserve : MERIT
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Word on a "Wanted" list : ALIAS
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Erase : DELETE
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Bar : TAPROOM
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Treated with scorn : DERIDED
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Sign up : ENROLL
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Bird : VIREO
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At all : STILL
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Vessel's width : BEAM
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Belem and Natal: Abbr. : SPTS
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Certain bills : TENS
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Miss : GIRL
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Onto : HEP
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Indian cloth : TAT
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Having feet: Prefix : PEDATI
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Type of star : NOVA
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Upstate New Yorker : UTICAN
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Unranked : NONRATED
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Make excessive margin jottings : BENOTE
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Again : ONCEMORE
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Cereal grass fungi : ERGOTS
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Ocean highways : SEALANES
Down
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Germ cells : SPORES
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Pronoun, Dixie style : YOUALL
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Beaverlike fur : NUTRIA
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Kind of shoppe : OLDE
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School group: Abbr. : PTA
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Spot : SITE
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Cone filler : ICECREAM
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Sonnet parts : SESTETS
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Loud sounds : CLAPS
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Field creature : HARE
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Neighbor of Minn. : ONT
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Hung around : LOITERED
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Variety of garnet : ESSONITE
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Tried again : RETESTED
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Measures: Abbr. : YDS
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Greek sun god : HELIOS
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Oral statements : PAROLS
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Musical instrument : VIOL
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French relative : MERE
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Lounge : LOLL
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Skin: Suffix : DERM
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Lab item : TESTTUBE
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Echidna : ANTEATER
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Typography : PRINTING
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Phone sound : DIALTONE
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Spanish summers : VERANOS
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Bridge call : BID
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Unit of light intensity : PHOTON
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Roma's river : TEVERE
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Black suit : SPADES
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Sarazen and others : GENES
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Design: Abbr. : PATT
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S. A. Indian : INCA
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Hottentot : NAMA
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Cote sound : COO
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Kinsman: Abbr. : REL

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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