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New York Times, Monday, January 12, 1970

38-Down : Cheerful

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { B J K Q V X }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 42.1
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,457
Across
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Cooking direction : STEW
5
Cook : CHEF
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Some museum hangings : OPART
14
So long : TATA
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Garden worker : HOER
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Track man : MILER
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Soon : ANON
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Guthrie : ARLO
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Start of Dickens title : ATALE
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One of Haydn's twelve : LONDONSYMPHONY
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Perfume : ESSENCE
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Horse color : ROAN
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Dakota Indian : REE
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Fleur-de-___ : LIS
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Smooth, to Scots : SNOD
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Flat plinths : ORLOS
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Animal : TIGER
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Yes : AYE
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Specialty on an Innsbruck menu : WIENERSCHNITZEL
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Greek letter : ETA
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___ up (clinch) : TIEIT
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Grab : SEIZE
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Without: Fr. : SANS
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Lawyer: Abbr. : ATT
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Estimate : SET
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Bills : TENS
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African bird : TOURACO
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Substance used for moldings : PLASTEROFPARIS
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Equals : PEERS
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Church vessel : FONT
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Man, familiarly : GENT
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Garbo : GRETA
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Small sled : LUGE
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Ace : ONER
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Boyish epithet : SISSY
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Leap ___ : YEAR
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Space initials : NASA
Down
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Trite : STALE
2
New Mexican Indians : TANOS
3
Jackets : ETONS
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Talk endlessly : WANDERON
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Happen : CHANCE
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Carpentry support : HORSE
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Slippery : EELY
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___ to left : FROMRIGHT
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Siouan people : OMAHA
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Mountain climber's gear : PITONS
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Novelist Paton : ALAN
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Depend : RELY
13
Three, in Rome : TRE
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Like some plays : ONESET
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Polish city : POSEN
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Allowable : LICIT
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Himmler, for one : NAZI
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Court cry : OYEZ
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Printer's mark : DELE
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Has debts : OWES
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Rio ___ : RITA
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Thin : LEAN
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Insect : TSETSEFLY
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Rebel : RISEUP
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Cheerful : RIANT
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Quadrangle : TETRAGON
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Onsets : STARTS
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More pliant : SOFTER
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Literary form : ESSAY
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Friendly Islands : TONGA
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Scene : ARENA
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Spanish movies : CINES
52
Town in central Italy : OSTRA
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Persian elf : PERI
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Shelters : LEES
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Rake : ROUE
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Leaves: Abbr. : PGS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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