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New York Times, Wednesday, January 5, 1972

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 23.2
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,180
Across
1
Fish : SHAD
5
Reduces : PARES
10
Shepard : ALAN
14
Pacific staple : TARO
15
Destroy slowly : ERODE
16
Part of the marriage vow : LOVE
17
Nautical word : ALOW
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Special quality : TRAIT
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Legal order : WRIT
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Puts less value on : DOWNGRADES
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Says more : ADDS
23
Cheese base : WHEY
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Unproductive : DRY
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Boone or Webster : DANIEL
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Self-centered : EGOISTIC
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Ham it up : EMOTE
35
Gone : FLOWN
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Timetable abbr. : ARR
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Menace to woolens : MOTH
38
Brighten : LIVEN
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Chinese dynasty : CHOU
40
Western state: Abbr. : ORE
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Vidal and others : GORES
42
Is pensive : MOONS
43
Composer Roger : SESSIONS
45
Least wild : TAMEST
46
Pen filler : INK
47
Indian : ERIE
48
Gray fabric : DRAB
51
Broke : DOWNANDOUT
57
Slippery : EELY
58
Mountain nymph : OREAD
59
Spanish jar : OLLA
60
See, in poker : CALL
61
Answer a letter : WRITE
62
Ineffectual : WEAK
63
Word of woe : ALAS
64
Nostrils : NARES
65
"And then there were ___" : NONE
Down
1
African village : STAD
2
Saint's headwear : HALO
3
In a line : AROW
4
Anti-Establishment words : DOWNWITH
5
Sea bird : PETREL
6
Panoply : ARRAY
7
Kind of show or hog : ROAD
8
Miss Adams : EDIE
9
Transcribes : SETSDOWN
10
Forever : ALWAYS
11
Put on airs : LORD
12
Greedy : AVID
13
Clears : NETS
21
Hindu butter : GHEE
25
Japanese coin : RIN
26
Populace : DEMOS
27
Love, in Italy : AMORE
28
Memos : NOTES
29
Fairy-tale shoemakers : ELVES
30
Functions : GOES
31
Western vacation spot : TAHOE
32
Projects, firewise : IRONS
33
Audacity : CRUST
35
Glacial ice : FIRN
38
Consider inferior, with "on" : LOOKDOWN
39
Humiliation : COMEDOWN
41
Card game : GIN
42
Prime : MAIN
44
Prophetesses : SIBYLS
45
Occupations : TRADES
47
Growing out : ENATE
48
Ten: Prefix : DECA
49
Sincere : REAL
50
___ breve : ALLA
52
Odd: Scot. : ORRA
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Dam : WEIR
54
Bread spread : OLEO
55
Prussian lancer: Var. : ULAN
56
Seize : TAKE

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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