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New York Times, Saturday, January 18, 1958

15-Down : Coconut fiber.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { B J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
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© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,126
Across
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James Garner TV role. : MAVERICK
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Ship's cable hole. : HAWSE
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Southwestern city. : AMARILLO
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Outdoor locale for a Western. : CANYON
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North Carolina lighthouse site. : CAPEFEAR
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Type of play. : ONEACT
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American cuckoo. : ANI
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Hard cash. : SPECIE
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Four-in-hand. : TIE
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Forded. : WADED
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Light-hearted. : AIRY
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Old salt. : TAR
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Sheep. : MERINO
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Printer's direction. : DELE
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Jewish ram's horn: Var. : SHOFAR
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Come up ___. : FORAIR
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Color effect in printing. : DUOTONE
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Outdoor locales for Westerns. : DESERTS
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Came to terms. : AGREED
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Outwit one's captors. : ESCAPE
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Religious service. : MASS
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TV satirist. : CAESAR
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Anterior: Prefix. : PRE
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Lodge. : ROOM
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Western hero of the comics. : RYDER
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Suppositions. : IFS
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New York State lake. : ONEIDA
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Honshu bay. : ISE
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"He has ___ who never had a fear." : NOHOPE
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James Arness TV vehicle. : GUNSMOKE
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Do-___ (well-intentioned one). : GOODER
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Unequal. : ONESIDED
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One of the herd. : STEER
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Early Westerners. : SETTLERS
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Colorful parrot. : MACAW
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"Give ___ horse he can ride ... " : AMANA
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Flavorless. : VAPID
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Sooner than. : ERE
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Morocco's hilly region. : RIF
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French land bodies. : ILES
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Give an ovation. : CLAP
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Chosen native. : KOREAN
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Carol of the musicals. : HANEY
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One: Dial. : ANE
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Hugh O'Brian TV role. : WYATTEARP
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One of the four hundred. : SOCIALITE
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People coming in. : ENTERERS
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Coconut fiber. : COIR
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Labor group contingent. : CIO
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Enacts feelingly: Colloq. : EMOTES
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Friday's creator. : DEFOE
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Author of "Atlas Shrugged." : RAND
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Dudgeon. : IRE
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Bleak. : DREARY
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Will Hutchins TV role. : SUGARFOOT
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Basic equipment for Silver. : HORSESHOE
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Actor Parker, alias Davy Crockett. : FESS
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Tribute to Disney, et al. : OSCAR
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Reductions in oscillations, in physics. : DAMPINGS
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Letter. : DEE
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Cedar Rapids college. : COE
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Mexican bordertown cronies. : AMIGOS
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Cowpuncher in action. : ROPER
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Outstanding example: Slang. : ONER
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Vacuum tube. : DIODE
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Glacial ridge. : ESKER
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Marsh grasses. : REEDS
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Sandy hill. : DUNE
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French town, home of Diane de Poitiers. : ANET
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Relative of psalm or canticle. : ODE
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Hissed exclamation. : SST
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Wire measure. : MIL

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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