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New York Times, Friday, July 9, 1965

13-Down : Detected.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F V X }, Scrabble score: 328 (avg 1.74)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 47.5
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© 1965, The New York TimesNo. 5,822
Across
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Wicket. : HOOP
5
Sets. : JELLS
10
Rustic sounds. : BAAS
14
Annapolis. : USNA
15
Furnish. : EQUIP
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Noun ending. : ENCE
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Obsessions. : TICS
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River into the Ganges. : JUMNA
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Suffix with farmer or major. : ETTE
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Long, as words. : SESQUIPEDALIAN
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A lot of wine. : TUN
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Fleur-___. : DELIS
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Riding in a car. : ONWHEELS
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Generous ones. : DONORS
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Nothing more than. : MERE
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X-ray shielding. : LEAD
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Type of singing: Abbr. : RECIT
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Freund's neighbor. : AMI
38
Esoteric ones. : MYSTICS
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___ des Pins. : ILE
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___ do with. : HASTO
43
Japanese wrestling. : SUMO
44
Purplish red. : LAKE
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Make melodious. : ATTUNE
47
Written, in a way. : PENCILED
49
Secrecy. : WRAPS
51
Status ___. : QUO
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Pompous talk. : GRANDILOQUENCE
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Not long ago. : LATE
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Short story. : CONTE
60
Unskillfully. : ILLY
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Addition: Abbr. : INCR
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Mimics. : APERS
64
French writer. : ZOLA
65
Exclamations of disgust. : BAHS
66
Most trivial. : LEAST
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Netherlands town. : EDAM
Down
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Quonset. : HUT
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Condition: Suffix. : OSIS
3
Quondam. : ONCE
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___ hat. : PASSTHE
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Insipidly. : JEJUNELY
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Prefix with poise or potential. : EQUI
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Sugar portion. : LUMP
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Arow. : LINED
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Worked in the garden. : SPADED
10
Shortest route. : BEELINE
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Misanthropic. : ANTISOCIAL
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___ part. : ACTA
13
Detected. : SEEN
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Part of Canada: Abbr. : QUE
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Then: Fr. : ALORS
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City on the Missouri. : OMAHA
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Thread: Prefix. : NEMAT
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Timepiece. : WRISTWATCH
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With the deduction of. : LESS
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Was alert. : SATUP
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Poet born in Prague. : RILKE
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Bucephalus, for one. : STEED
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Piece of silver. : DIME
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Organic unit: Biol. : MONAD
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1066 marked one. : CONQUEST
42
Kitchen implements. : TURNERS
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Treat as a VIP. : LIONIZE
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Heroic. : EPICAL
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Signal to begin. : CUE
50
Hillside. : SLOPE
52
Fluent. : GLIB
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The frogs. : RANA
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"___ penny ... " : ONEA
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Football periods: Abbr. : QTRS
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Dull one. : CLOD
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She: Sp. : ELLA
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Vegetable. : YAM

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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