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New York Times, Friday, January 1, 1954

64-Across : Bayou boat.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { Q V }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 18, Grid flow: 33.7
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© 1954, The New York TimesNo. 1,648
Across
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Traveler's constant companion. : PASSPORT
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Two cents worth. : POSTAL
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Test taker. : EXAMINEE
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Public opinion. : REPUTE
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Adriatic citizen. : ALBANIAN
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Country with a new king. : ARABIA
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Vital ship's timber. : KEEL
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Singularly. : ODDLY
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Punishments to fit the crimes. : RAPS
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Describing a lighthouse keeper's job. : LONELIEST
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Legal claim on property. : LIEN
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Legally affects past performances. : RETROACTS
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Tailless insect-eater of Madagascar. : TENREC
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Despoiled. : REFT
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Altar in the sky. : ARA
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Representative: Abbr. : AGT
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Where Tangier is: Abbr. : MOR
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Wheel track. : RUT
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Brief swim. : DIP
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Sea: Fr. : MER
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Made into a unit. : ONED
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Bounds for soldiers. : LIMITS
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Elephant's trunk. : PROBOSCIS
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Figure on a tag. : SIZE
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Hatched, as a plot. : INCUBATED
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Impartial. : JUST
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Signor Balbo, late Italian flyer. : ITALO
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Rudeness at the door. : SLAM
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A boxer's double punch. : ONETWO
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Cheer from the sky. : SUNSHINE
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Bayou boat. : BATEAU
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Other Adriatic citizens. : ITALIANS
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Spiced tongues. : SLANGS
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Oddly accented songs from Trinidad. : CALYPSOS
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One's prime. : PEAK
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Wagon part. : AXLE
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Quien ___? (Who knows?): Span. : SABE
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More compact. : SMALLER
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Campaign button. : PIN
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Spanish ___. : ONION
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Charles Laughton, for instance. : READER
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Benny Leonard's toughest opponent. : TENDLER
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Very devout. : PRAYERFUL
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Above, in one syllable. : OER
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City of Stoics. : SPARTA
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Deep-voiced horn. : TUBA
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On tiptoe. : ATIP
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Where sheep may graze. : LEAS
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European "quart." : LITER
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Number of Earth's satellites. : ONEMOON
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A piece of stupidity: Fr. : SOTTISE
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Light: French. : LEGER
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Musical opening: Jazz slang. : INTRO
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Spanish port near Gibraltar. : CADIZ
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Meaningless from repetition. : TRITE
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Undermines. : SAPS
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Pack down. : TAMP
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Aware. : CONSCIOUS
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Shorten again. : RECUT
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Having two atoms of a univalent metal. : DIBASIC
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Between stem and stern. : MIDSHIP
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Nipped. : BITTEN
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An Italian toast. : SALUTA
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Of sound quality. : TONAL
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Examples of patronage. : JOBS
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Single. : UNAL
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A bristle. : SETA
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Geologically important series of bluish rocks. : LIAS
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___ mundi (in the year of the world): Lat. : ANNO
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Soldier's meal. : MESS
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Droll conversationalist. : WAG
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Cunning. : SLY

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 14 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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