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New York Times, Monday, October 1, 1973

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 29.6
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© 1973, The New York TimesNo. 8,815
Across
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Writer's mark : CARET
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Painter's concern : TRIM
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Bound : TIED
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Roman friends : AMICI
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French river : OISE
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Book-jacket blurb : RAVE
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Wicked city : SODOM
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Wily scheme : STRATAGEM
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Before : ERE
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___ on balls : BASE
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Piquant : SAVORY
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Of the skin : DERMAL
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Sea-foam : SPUME
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Woes : ILLS
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Cork's place : IRELAND
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Hackneyed : STEREOTYPED
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"That's my ___!" : BOY
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Retired nook : COVE
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Good name, for short : REP
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Diva's offering : ARIA
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Suffix with script or strict : URE
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Crowd-pleaser : DRAWINGCARD
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Certain income : PENSION
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In good order : NEAT
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Vanity : PRIDE
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Used a certain well : WISHED
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Followers of a Greek philosophy : STOICS
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Part of a soup-and-fish : VEST
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Crew member : OAR
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Feather sprays : AIGRETTES
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Wash out : ELUTE
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Hurting : SORE
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Goes wrong : ERRS
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Moss, wild and old : ROSES
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Having color : HUED
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Deserve : RATE
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All in : SPENT
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Surveyed the joint : CASED
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Love: It. : AMORE
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Purple Sage figure : RIDER
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Habitat: Prefix : ECO
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Pastry shell : TIMBALE
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Mix the salad : TOSS
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Solemn events : RITES
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Medit. country : ISR
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Use a yardstick : MEASURE
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Activity for a retiree : TRAVEL
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Symbol of treachery : IAGO
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In any way : EVER
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Paper size : DEMY
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Under control : TAMED
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Closely related: Prefix : ALLO
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Bog : MIRE
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Apple : PIPPIN
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Leave helpless : STRAND
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Western canyon mouth : ABRA
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Monte Carlo color : NOIR
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Couple : DYAD
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Porgy : SCUP
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Rushed headlong : TORE
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Steady : EVEN
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Tree : YEW
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Statutes : ACTS
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Wicked queen of Thebes : DIRCE
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Revel noisily : ROISTER
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TV offering : NEWS
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Outmoded legwear : GAITERS
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Slender and pointed : SPIRED
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Turn outward : EVERT
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Tudor or York, e.g. : HOUSE
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Corroded : EATEN
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Clad, to poets : DREST
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Girdle : SASH
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Southern Indian : TIOU
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Monster : OGRE
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Existence: Lat. : ESSE
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Refrain word : TRA
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Cut off : LOP

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3 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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