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New York Times, Wednesday, September 5, 1962

18-Across : Coins.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 302 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,800
Across
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Is wearing. : HASON
6
N. Y. or N. Y. C. : ABBR
10
Resting on. : ATOP
14
In rapport. : ATONE
15
Item for 30 Across. : CLUE
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Child's parental greeting. : DADA
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Pirate-flag emblem. : SKULL
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Coins. : HARDMONEY
20
Stassen. : HAROLD
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Suppress. : STRANGLE
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Evening party. : SOIREE
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Baltimore ballplayer. : ORIOLE
26
Iowan. : HAWKEYE
28
Specks. : DOTS
29
Bide ___. : AWEE
30
Sherlock. : SLEUTH
32
"___ Ballads." : BAB
35
Cultivators. : HOERS
37
Buddy. : PAL
38
Have ___. : ACARE
40
High in pitch. : ALT
41
Burden of a song. : CHORUS
44
Pearl Buck heroine. : OLAN
45
Smell ___ (suspect). : ARAT
46
Ship's spar. : TOPMAST
48
Trapper. : SNARER
51
Shrill outcry. : SHRIEK
52
Algonquian Indian. : KICKAPOO
54
___ Island, now Liberty Island. : BEDLOE
57
Silver-lining seekers. : OPTIMISTS
59
Crown jewel. : TIARA
60
"And boiled in ___." : APOT
61
Biblical patriarch. : SETH
62
Dreams: Fr. : REVES
63
Cithara. : LYRE
64
Ancient Ionian city. : TEOS
65
Indian. : OSAGE
Down
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Dinner dish. : HASH
2
Aleutian island. : ATKA
3
Kind of pickle. : SOURSWEET
4
Spectator. : ONLOOKER
5
Baseball's Mr. Fox. : NELLIE
6
Alas: Ger. : ACH
7
Indifferent. : BLASE
8
Lancaster. : BURT
9
Perennial herb. : REDROOT
10
Matinee idol. : ADONIS
11
Argentine dance. : TANGO
12
Governor of New York, 1900. : ODELL
13
IOU holder. : PAYEE
19
First First Lady. : MARTHA
21
Prohibitionists. : DRYS
24
Fishing device. : EELPOT
26
Derisive laugh. : HAHA
27
Military problem, for short. : AWOL
28
Great Lakes iron ore center. : DULUTH
31
Projecting lug. : EAR
32
Where the Light Brigade charged. : BALAKLAVA
33
Macaws. : ARAS
34
Crooked. : BENT
36
See 51 Across. : SCREAM
39
Broadway fare. : COMEDIES
42
Musician of a sort. : HARPIST
43
Tree of the apple family. : SORB
45
Voyager with Noah. : ARKITE
47
Composer Mascagni. : PIETRO
48
Toast. : SKOAL
49
Biting. : NIPPY
50
Thespian. : ACTOR
51
Under: It. : SOTTO
53
Greek form of Hosea. : OSEE
55
State: Abbr. : OREG
56
Comfort. : EASE
58
Sibilant sounds. : SHS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 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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