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New York Times, Tuesday, January 16, 1973

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.70, Missing: { J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 20.1
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© 1973, The New York TimesNo. 8,557
Across
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Branch : LIMB
5
Novelist Kingsley : AMIS
9
Casals : PABLO
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Equal, in Cannes : EGAL
15
Carry on : RANT
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Airport area : APRON
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Tittle : IOTA
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Do secret-agent work : INFILTRATE
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French coin : FRANC
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Cuties : DOLLS
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Call ___ day : ITA
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Presided over : CHAIRED
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Clear : NET
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Unused : NEW
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Titan, for one : ICBM
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___ up (monopolizes) : SEWS
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Grapes : UVAS
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Lanchester : ELSA
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Dine at home : EATIN
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Abhor : DESPISE
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Without exception : BARNONE
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Join : ENTER
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Memento of a scrape : SCAB
48
Speaker of baseball : TRIS
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Farm animals : EWES
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Coptic cleric's title : ANBA
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Cascades or Tetons: Abbr. : MTS
54
Brown : RAP
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Arctic wastes : TUNDRAS
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High note : ELA
60
Musical passage : RONDO
61
Match : RIVAL
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Forte of the deaf : LIPREADING
68
Lacquered ware : TOLE
69
French notions : IDEES
70
River in Germany : EDER
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Virginia willow : ITEA
72
Gem weight : CARAT
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Barber and Ruffing : REDS
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Sine qua non : NEED
Down
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Son of Eric : LEIF
2
Stravinsky : IGOR
3
First name in spying : MATA
4
Mont ___ : BLANC
5
Greek nickname : ARI
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Jaws : MANDIBLES
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Apprises : INFORMS
8
Fence passage : STILE
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O'Brien and Rooney : PATS
10
Spring mo. : APR
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Head seizure of a sort : BRAINSTORM
12
Lenya : LOTTE
13
___ a time : ONEAT
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Law degrees : LLDS
21
Greek letter : CHI
25
Good for openers : ACES
27
In the buff : NUDE
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Tied : EVEN
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Type of basket : WASTEPAPER
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Poet's word : EER
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Desideratum : WANT
35
Gush : SPEW
37
Wanton : ABANDONED
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Part of a monogram: Abbr. : INIT
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Cape : NESS
42
Nation in Eur. : IRE
44
Short form, for short : ABBR
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Voltaire novel : CANDIDE
50
Where Zeno walked : STOA
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Swiss river : AAR
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Souvenir : RELIC
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Actress Valli : ALIDA
57
___ a cloud : UNDER
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Protest form : SITIN
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Caesura : REST
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Record a preference : VOTE
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Opposite of aweather : ALEE
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Kind of balloon : LEAD
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American caricaturist : REA
67
Metric weights: Abbr. : GRS

Answer summary:
5 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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