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New York Times, Saturday, September 17, 1966

1-Across : Certain recordings.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.43, Missing: { F K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
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© 1966, The New York TimesNo. 6,244
Across
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Certain recordings. : TAPES
6
Playful scurry. : SCAMPER
13
Contradiction. : DENIAL
14
Pile-face fabric. : CHENILLE
15
Cantankerous. : ORNERY
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Popular game. : HANDBALL
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Twelve dozen. : GROSS
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Leave waiting at the church. : JILT
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Gunpowder, for one. : TEA
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Kind of sauce. : SOY
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19th-century French composer. : LALO
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Obdurate. : STONY
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Altar constellation. : ARA
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Fellow prisoner. : JAILMATE
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Card game. : GINRUMMY
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"Vissi d'arte" lady. : TOSCA
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Man on the run. : ESCAPEE
33
Where Granite Peak is. : MONTANA
35
Companion of a mortise. : TENON
36
Designating certain animals. : DOMESTIC
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U.S. carrier, Gemini 3 pickup, March, 1965. : INTREPID
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Soul: Fr. : AME
40
Dilutes. : THINS
43
With: Fr. : AVEC
44
Become tangled. : MAT
45
Pronoun. : HER
46
Geraint's beloved. : ENID
47
Vaquero's rope. : REATA
49
Like a hermit. : EREMITIC
52
Architectural feature. : TURRET
53
Tedious sameness. : MONOTONE
54
Store sign. : ONSALE
55
Pasqueflower. : ANEMONE
56
Undersized: Colloq. : TEENY
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Exponent of the use of violence. : TERRORIST
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Vexation. : ANNOYANCE
3
Menu specialties. : PIES
4
What pitchers have. : EARS
5
Furtive. : SLY
6
Israel's notable passenger ship. : SHALOM
7
Copper. : CENT
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Ampersand. : AND
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Kid's marble. : MIB
10
"Crito" author. : PLATO
11
Scott heroine. : ELLEN
12
Type of race. : RELAY
13
Long time: Colloq. : DOGSAGE
14
Unfriendly. : CHILLY
18
James, in Spain. : JAIME
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Deplore. : LAMENT
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Removed seeds from. : STONED
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Trial runs. : TESTS
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Tunics worn by knights. : JUPONS
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Minute. : ATOMIC
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Arrested: Slang. : RANIN
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Boat with twin hulls. : CATAMARAN
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With life. : ANIMATELY
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Was apathetic. : MOPED
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Cellulose fabric. : ACETATE
36
Invention. : DEVICE
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Of the frogs. : RANINE
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Topic: Lat. : THEMA
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Wading bird. : HERON
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Goddess of peace. : IRENE
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Shelley's school. : ETON
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Old Norse poem. : RUNE
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Gaelic. : ERSE
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Family member. : MOM
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Auntie Mame's houseboy. : ITO
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One-year-old. : TOT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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