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New York Times, Saturday, July 8, 1972

1-Down : Golfer Julius

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,365
Across
1
Clip joint : BARBERSHOP
11
African lake : CHAD
15
Hospital activities : OPERATIONS
16
Cupbearer of gods : HEBE
17
After-65 event : RETIREMENT
18
___ code : AREA
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Extending window : ORIEL
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Favoring : PRO
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Sweater size : SMALL
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Mariner's direction : SSE
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With 54 Across, Sammy Davis book : YES
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French Mrs. : MME
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Cupid : AMOR
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Certain ships : COALERS
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Howard of baseball : ELSTON
34
Strengthens : SHORESUP
35
Reached : GOTTO
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Pacific herb : PIA
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Honshu town : TONDA
38
More grasping : GREEDIER
40
Superficial appearance : VENEER
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Telling tall tales : YARNING
42
Small fry : TADS
43
Hiding place : DEN
44
Roman bronze : AES
45
Cleopatra's bane : ASP
48
Kind of bear : POLAR
51
Old English money : ORA
52
Writer Lagerlof : SELMA
54
See 23 Across : ICAN
55
"___ B.C." : ONEMILLION
57
The Red : ERIC
58
Collect : ACCUMULATE
59
Palm product : DATE
60
Showed up again : REAPPEARED
Down
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Golfer Julius : BOROS
2
Copycats : APERS
3
Knot again : RETIE
4
French cheese : BRIE
5
Nobleman : EARL
6
Way: Abbr. : RTE
7
Wry grin : SIMPER
8
Garden workers : HOERS
9
___ account (never) : ONNO
10
Attention getter : PST
11
Fickle ones : CHAMELEONS
12
Wife of Zeus : HERA
13
Biblical brother : ABEL
14
Card-player's request : DEAL
21
Felt pain : SMARTED
23
More distant : YON
24
Farm sound : MOO
25
Ballpark's concern : ATTENDANCE
26
More sullen : MOODIER
27
Tea : CHA
28
Early slave : ESNE
29
Boorish : RUDE
30
Boom : SPAR
31
Like some breakfast skillets : EGGY
32
Parts of bees : LORA
33
Silver abbr. : STER
34
Word of respect : SIR
36
Square item for a round hole : PEG
39
Hostel : INN
40
Anatomical duct : VAS
42
Work together : TEAMUP
44
Asian palm : ARECA
45
"Doubt truth to be ___" : ALIAR
46
Hit : SMOTE
47
Like a window : PANED
48
Multicolored : PIED
49
Soup ingredient: Var. : OCRA
50
Café au ___ : LAIT
51
Formerly : ONCE
52
Swing around : SLUE
53
Miss Logan : ELLA
55
Dory adjunct : OAR
56
Pixy : IMP

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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