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New York Times, Thursday, August 10, 1961

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.37, Missing: { J K Q }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 88, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 27.4
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© 1961, The New York TimesNo. 4,409
Across
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Horses. : ARABS
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River of Asia. : AMUR
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Piece of candy. : DROP
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Lodge. : CABOT
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Twining stem. : BINE
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Function. : ROLE
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Blue gas. : OZONE
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Beverages. : ALES
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Mental picture. : IDEA
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Jumping off place. : LOVERSLEAP
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Enthusiasm. : ZEAL
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Slave Scott. : DRED
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Hot spot. : TORRIDZONE
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Traveling man of a sort. : MINSTREL
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Kind of lace. : GUIPURE
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Home of the Muses. : HELICON
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"The Promised Land" author. : ANTIN
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Battery part. : ANODE
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Bring together again. : REUNITE
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Hung loosely. : DANGLED
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Plot synopsis. : SCENARIO
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Clumsy. : LEFTHANDED
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Vegetable dish. : SLAW
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Affirm. : AVER
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Evening. : SUNSETTIME
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Alone: Prefix. : SOLI
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Nestling. : EYAS
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Certain voters. : WOMEN
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Excursion. : TRIP
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Mal de ___. : TETE
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Finnish island. : ALAND
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___-Coburg. : SAXE
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Prophet. : SEER
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Alex's relative. : SANDY
Down
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Chilled: Archaic. : ACOLD
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Shaver. : RAZOR
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Better than. : ABOVE
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Like sardines. : BONED
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Suffix used with young and old. : STER
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Source of mother-of-pearl. : ABALONE
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Track men. : MILERS
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Discover. : UNEARTH
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Breathe. : RESPIRE
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Raining. : DRIZZLING
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Horse show. : RODEO
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New York city. : OLEAN
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American artist. : PEALE
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Move about. : STIR
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Part of FDR. : DELANO
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Scene of appeasement, 1938. : MUNICH
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Needlefish. : GAR
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One: Fr. : UNE
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Typographers' union. : ITU
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Fabric pattern. : PINSTRIPE
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Mountain gap. : COL
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Lyric. : ODE
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Calmer of TV. : NED
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China. : TEASETS
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Affected with boredom: Fr. : ENNUYEE
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Cupboard. : DRESSER
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Helper. : AIDE
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Congenitally grown together. : ADNATE
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Shoe shapes. : LASTS
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Portuguese city. : EVORA
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Mendelssohn. : FELIX
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Roman garb. : STOLA
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Peruvian. : LIMAN
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Correct. : AMEND
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Barrie heroine. : WENDY
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Poetic contraction. : TWAS

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

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