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New York Times, Friday, May 7, 1965

23-Across : Site of Cnossus.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 27.4
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© 1965, The New York TimesNo. 5,759
Across
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Certain chinaware. : TEAPOTS
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Went as far as. : REACHED
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Rochester's lake. : ONTARIO
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___ ends. : ATLOOSE
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Amount of electricity. : WATTAGE
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Island in the Arctic Ocean. : WRANGEL
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Cleo's maid. : IRAS
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Plain. : EVIDENT
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Region: Abbr. : TER
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Site of Cnossus. : CRETE
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English maritime county. : DEVON
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Interpret wrongly. : MISREAD
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Thames estuary (with "The"). : NORE
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Miner's nail. : SPAD
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Native of Alaska. : ALEUTIAN
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One kind of street. : DEADEND
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Plant of the parsley family. : SANICLE
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Bee colonies. : APIARIES
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Enemies. : FOES
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Fly. : WING
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Enter surreptitiously. : STEALIN
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Beelzebub. : SATAN
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Pardon. : REMIT
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Non ___. : EST
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Swift hunting dogs of Asia. : SALUKIS
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___ patriae. : AMOR
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Swayed suddenly to one side. : LURCHED
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Worsted fabric. : ETAMINE
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Popular tenor solo. : BECAUSE
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Cloudlike clusters. : NEBULAE
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Thronged. : SWARMED
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Trappers. : SNARERS
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That is to say. : TOWIT
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European lake. : ENARE
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Perfumery substance. : ATTAR
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Pieces, as of butter. : PATS
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___ pro nobis. : ORA
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One of the ball teams. : TIGERS
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To any possible extent. : SOEVER
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Acts of injustice, modern style. : RAWDEALS
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Being: Fr. : ETRE
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Baltic Sea island. : ALAND
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Strife. : CONTENTION
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Ground ___. : HOG
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That: Sp. : ESE
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State: Abbr. : DEL
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Willow genus. : ITEA
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Beverage. : CIDER
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Speech. : VOICE
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Kinds of tests. : ORALS
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Bird of Hawaii. : NENE
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Indian Ocean island. : MADAGASCAR
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Goddess: Lat. : DEA
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Brown pigment. : SEPIA
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Adorn. : PAINT
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Disqualify. : UNFIT
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Grackles' cousins. : DAWS
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City of Yugoslavia. : NIS
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Thrust down. : DETRUDED
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Try to learn or discover. : SEEK
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Capital of Somme department. : AMIENS
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Take advice. : LISTEN
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Book of the Old Testament. : NAHUM
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Rousseau hero. : EMILE
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Underwater detector. : SONAR
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Magnolias. : TREES
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___ majesty. : LESE
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2,900-mi. Asian river. : AMUR
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Weighty matters: Abbr. : LBS
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Initials of a labor union. : UEW
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Sarnoff's outfit. : RCA
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Camel's-hair robe. : ABA

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