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New York Times, Thursday, December 10, 1970

48-Down : Former Indian coin

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 92, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
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M
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,789
Across
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Convivial : FESTAL
7
Popular winter resort : BAHAMAS
14
Appearance : ASPECT
15
One with no future : LAMEDUCK
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Came home, at Shea : SCORED
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Repetition : ITERANCY
18
Hirsute : HAIRY
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N.L. player : ASTRO
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"Kings ___" : ROW
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Unpropitiously : ILLY
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"For ___ sake" : PETES
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Dumb one : DORA
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Acapulco wave : OLA
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What the doctor did : DOSED
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"For I am poor and ___" : NEEDY
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Drink : NOG
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Southern college : ELON
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Bullfight arena section : SOL
30
Parsimonious ones : PENNYPINCHERS
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Kennel sound : YIP
36
___ contendere : NOLO
37
Dynamo data: Abbr. : EHP
39
Spikes, as a drink : LACES
42
Washington name : AGNEW
43
Slight difference: Abbr. : VAR
44
Homme d'___ (statesman) : ETAT
45
Old Turkish coin : ASPER
46
Bolivian river : BENI
47
Degree in religion : THB
48
___ Bill : PECOS
49
Fine vases : MINGS
50
Coasts : SEASIDES
52
Enthusiastic cry : GUNGHO
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Harmless : INNOCENT
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Of certain mountains : ANDEAN
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Most adroit : NEATEST
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Informal word for a wife : MISSIS
Down
1
Vogue : FASHION
2
Bake potatoes in sauce : ESCALLOP
3
Fruiterer's concern : SPOILAGE
4
Kind of cloth : TERRY
5
___-deucy : ACEY
6
Relative of inc. : LTD
7
Faced the pitcher : BATTED
8
New World residents: Abbr. : AMERS
9
V.I.P. of silents : HERO
10
Nabokov character : ADA
11
Smokeless-powder inventor : MUNROE
12
Harmony : ACCORD
13
High road : SKYWAY
15
Grapevine's relative : LISTENINGPOST
19
Fabulist : AESOP
22
Surgeon's problem : POLYP
23
Take out : DELE
25
French muralist : DENIS
26
Slangy negative : NOHOW
29
Hard: Prefix : SCLER
31
Da's opposite : NYET
32
Roman date : NONES
33
Gets even : REVENGES
34
Spirit away : SHANGHAI
38
Folsom et al. : PRISONS
39
Admits : LETSIN
40
Greek goddess : ATHENE
41
Beach sight : CABANA
42
Climb : ASCENT
45
Mosquito genus : AEDES
46
Ties securely : BINDS
48
Former Indian coin : PICE
49
Stage and screen name : MUNI
51
Tipsy one : SOT
52
Rita : GAM

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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