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New York Times, Thursday, October 11, 1962

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 85, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 26.6
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,836
Across
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Forward. : PERT
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Get going! : SCRAM
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Familiar footnote. : IBID
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Genus of trees. : OLEA
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Look ___! : ALIVE
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Pitch. : TONE
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Impose, as a fine. : LEVY
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Recorded. : TAPED
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Hardly sufficient. : SLIM
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Century. : AGE
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Referring to a kind or class. : GENERIC
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Believer in: Suffix. : ITE
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Declaimed violently. : RANTED
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First of the Frankish kings. : CLOVIS
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Metal casting. : INGOT
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By. : PER
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Of a Great Lake. : ERIAN
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Ragout. : STEW
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Minstrel in "Ivanhoe." : ALLANADALE
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Ace. : HOLEINONE
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Echo, Explorer, etc. : SATELLITES
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Stack of hay. : RICK
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Part of a stair. : TREAD
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Born. : NEE
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Projection to fit a mortise. : TENON
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Present. : RENDER
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Halfway point. : MIDDLE
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Reply: Abbr. : ANS
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Without a fixed abode. : NOMADIC
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Fresh-water fish. : IDE
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Slave. : TOIL
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Gift of a sort. : BONUS
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Jolly-boat. : YAWL
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Servicemen's clubs. : USOS
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Greek princess. : IRENE
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Suffix in zoology. : INAE
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Set right. : MEND
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More up-to-date. : NEWER
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Young salmon. : PARR
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Missile fired from under water. : POLARIS
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First-rate: Colloq. : ELEGANT
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Villain's forte. : REVENGE
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River of Scotland. : TAY
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Surfeited. : SATED
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The Campbells, for one. : CLAN
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Mellow. : RIPE
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State as fact. : AVER
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Scalpel wielder. : MEDIC
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Common contraction. : ITS
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Member of OAS. : BOLIVIA
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Beginning. : INITIAL
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Land attached to a manor house. : DEMESNE
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Bring. : GET
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Unsullied. : CLEAN
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Goldilocks' look-alike. : TOWHEAD
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Regulated. : ORDERED
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___ air. : PLEIN
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The flower. : ELITE
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Eastern title. : RANEE
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Wholly. : ALL
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Sixes and sevens: Abbr. : NOS
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Ancient: Poet. : OLDEN
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Layer. : STRATUM
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Sandy. : ARENOSE
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Stress. : TENSION
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Where Kokomo is. : INDIANA
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Current type of brinkmanship. : COLDWAR
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Cushion or hassock. : KNEELER
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Twitching. : TIC
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Thrush. : ROBIN
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Scrooge. : MISER
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In addition. : MORE
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Once again. : ANEW
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Sand hill. : DUNE
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British currency: Abbr. : LSD
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Puppy's cry. : YIP

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

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