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New York Times, Saturday, January 17, 1970

37-Across : More pallid

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 41.4 Grid is asymmetric.
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,462
Across
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Ku ___ : KLUXER
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Clutch, pouch, etc. : HANDBAGS
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Crescent-shaped : LUNATE
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Excessively lazy : OVERIDLE
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More penetrating : ACUTER
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Transiently brilliant : METEORIC
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Greek letters : XIS
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Caretaker, for short : SUPER
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Glance: Scot. : GLISK
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Works of Keats : ODES
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Edith Cavell : NURSE
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Used up : ATE
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Zenith's opposite : NADIR
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Sorry ones : RUERS
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___ Aviv : TEL
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Seized : TAKEN
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Thrushes : ROBINS
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More pallid : WHITER
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Museum objects : RELICS
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Actor of "a thousand faces" : CHANEY
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Easterners out West : DUDES
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European capital: Abbr. : LON
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French painter : DEGAS
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Widow's share : DOWER
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Increases : ADDS
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Daggers : DIRKS
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Girl's name : NONA
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Artifice : RUSE
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Harass : BESET
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Land measures: Abbr. : RDS
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Chemicals : ENOLATES
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Kind of apartment : WALKUP
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Antiquated : TIMEWORN
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Hazardous : UNSURE
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Most unrelenting : STERNEST
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Impoverished one : PAUPER
Down
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Loud auto horn : KLAXON
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Brightest star in a constellation : LUCIDA
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Not accustomed : UNUSED
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Totem pole : XAT
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French seasons : ETES
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Another showing : RERUN
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Swatter's achievement : HOMERUN
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Opposed : AVERSE
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Butterfly gear : NET
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Small amount : DREG
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School subject: Abbr. : BIOL
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Albania's sea : ADRIATIC
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Shines : GLISTENS
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Pears : SECKELS
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Like country air : PURER
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Demonstrators' device : SITIN
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Went wrong : ERRED
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Classified : RATED
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Did cobbling : SOLED
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Excited, with "up'" : KEYED
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Western animal : BISON
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Exciting reading : WHODUNIT
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Adonis-like : HANDSOME
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Crunchy bread slices : RUSKS
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Wines : CLARETS
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Lacks the nerve, for short : DARESNT
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People who mock : GIBERS
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Excite : WORKUP
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Experience : ENDURE
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Abrader : RASPER
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German anthropologist : SELER
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Get exclusive control : SEWUP
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African river : TANA
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Wheat beard : AWN
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Digit : TOE
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Baton Rouge initials : LSU

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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