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New York Times, Monday, August 24, 1970

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 30.7
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,681
Across
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Marble : MIB
4
Tale of adventure : GESTE
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Egyptian god : AMON
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___ now (so far) : ASOF
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Approach midnight : LATEN
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Pictorial section, for short : ROTO
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Distant: Prefix : TELE
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Praying figure : ORANT
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Blue flag : IRIS
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Cantankerous woman : HELLCAT
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School problem : TRUANCY
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Ritual promise : OATH
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Retained : HELD
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___ mare : SHANKS
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City on the Loire : NANTES
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Describe in a way : PARSE
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Villain : MISCREANT
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Drink : ALE
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Hilarity : MIRTH
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Japanese statesman : ITO
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Photo developers' concerns : CONTRASTS
43
Elizabeth 2, e.g. : LINER
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Biblical heroine : ESTHER
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Butler's milieu : PANTRY
47
Trees of Burma : ENGS
49
Untidiness : MUSS
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Neighbor of Paterson : PASSAIC
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Prima donna : ARTISTE
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Feed the kitty : ANTE
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Black, in Rouen : NOIRE
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Indian Ocean vessel : DHOW
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Kind of drill: Abbr. : PNEU
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Pros' opposites : ANTIS
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Colleen's land : EIRE
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Jug parts : EARS
65
Part of l.c.m. : LEAST
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___ capita : PER
Down
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School subject : MATH
2
Response to an explanation : ISEE
3
Cotton pod : BOLL
4
Exults maliciously : GLOATS
5
Planet : EARTH
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Train or bus term. : STA
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Fraction : TENTH
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Dig in solidly : ENTRENCH
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Daughter of King Minos : ARIADNE
10
Poetic time : MORN
11
Of the ear : OTIC
12
Inquisitive : NOSY
14
Criminals : FELONS
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Become crusty : CAKE
23
Resembling: Suffix : ULAR
26
Part of NASA : SPACE
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Moon phenomena : HALOS
28
Common contraction : ARENT
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Contaminate : TAINT
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Join : ENTER
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Polite word for a falsehood : STORY
34
Wrong: Prefix : MIS
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N. Y. subway line : IRT
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Main et al. : STS
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Not quite fly-by-night : MARGINAL
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Slayer of the Minotaur : THESEUS
42
Rockfish : RENA
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Endure : LAST
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John Gunther word : INSIDE
46
Most absolute : PUREST
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Scottish delicacy : SCONE
49
Home-run star : MARIS
50
Painted bunting : PAPE
51
Pakistani coin : ANNA
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British money: Abbr. : STER
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Send in a way : SHIP
55
Ripped : TORE
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Pitcher : EWER
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"Give ___ try" : ITA

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