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New York Times, Saturday, January 17, 1970

17-Across : More penetrating

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 is asymmetric.
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,462
Across
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Ku ___ : KLUXER
7
Clutch, pouch, etc. : HANDBAGS
15
Crescent-shaped : LUNATE
16
Excessively lazy : OVERIDLE
17
More penetrating : ACUTER
18
Transiently brilliant : METEORIC
19
Greek letters : XIS
20
Caretaker, for short : SUPER
22
Glance: Scot. : GLISK
23
Works of Keats : ODES
25
Edith Cavell : NURSE
27
Used up : ATE
28
Zenith's opposite : NADIR
30
Sorry ones : RUERS
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___ Aviv : TEL
33
Seized : TAKEN
35
Thrushes : ROBINS
37
More pallid : WHITER
39
Museum objects : RELICS
40
Actor of "a thousand faces" : CHANEY
41
Easterners out West : DUDES
42
European capital: Abbr. : LON
43
French painter : DEGAS
45
Widow's share : DOWER
49
Increases : ADDS
51
Daggers : DIRKS
53
Girl's name : NONA
54
Artifice : RUSE
55
Harass : BESET
57
Land measures: Abbr. : RDS
58
Chemicals : ENOLATES
61
Kind of apartment : WALKUP
63
Antiquated : TIMEWORN
64
Hazardous : UNSURE
65
Most unrelenting : STERNEST
66
Impoverished one : PAUPER
Down
1
Loud auto horn : KLAXON
2
Brightest star in a constellation : LUCIDA
3
Not accustomed : UNUSED
4
Totem pole : XAT
5
French seasons : ETES
6
Another showing : RERUN
7
Swatter's achievement : HOMERUN
8
Opposed : AVERSE
9
Butterfly gear : NET
10
Small amount : DREG
11
School subject: Abbr. : BIOL
12
Albania's sea : ADRIATIC
13
Shines : GLISTENS
14
Pears : SECKELS
21
Like country air : PURER
24
Demonstrators' device : SITIN
26
Went wrong : ERRED
29
Classified : RATED
31
Did cobbling : SOLED
34
Excited, with "up'" : KEYED
36
Western animal : BISON
37
Exciting reading : WHODUNIT
38
Adonis-like : HANDSOME
39
Crunchy bread slices : RUSKS
40
Wines : CLARETS
41
Lacks the nerve, for short : DARESNT
44
People who mock : GIBERS
46
Excite : WORKUP
47
Experience : ENDURE
48
Abrader : RASPER
50
German anthropologist : SELER
52
Get exclusive control : SEWUP
56
African river : TANA
59
Wheat beard : AWN
60
Digit : TOE
62
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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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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