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New York Times, Friday, November 20, 1970

17-Across : Italian saint

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 43.2 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,769
Across
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English writer : AMIS
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Obnoxious guy : CREEP
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Coffee : JAVA
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Rangers' milieu : RINK
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French income : RENTE
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Russian range : URAL
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Italian saint : NERI
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Triple-Crown horse : OMAHA
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Year in reign of Claudius I : LIII
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Sign on road under repair : ONELANE
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Spiny anteater : ECHIDNA
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Legal claim : LIEN
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Ostrich-like bird : RHEA
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Fenced in : PALED
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Becoming abstruse : DEEPENING
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Hindu incarnation : AVATAR
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Postponed : LAIDOVER
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Taste : SIP
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Zola : EMILE
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Cobh's land: Abbr. : IRE
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Like some hangings : TASSELED
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Sweater-knitter's problem : SLEEVE
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Emcees' specialties : ANECDOTES
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Ancient : OLDEN
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Contest : RACE
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In the same place: Abbr. : IBID
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Sailing vessel of India : PATAMAR
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Part of some splits : NINEPIN
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Above : ATOP
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Insult : TAUNT
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Change : REDO
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___ to terms : COME
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Plumed bird : EGRET
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Eastern country : LAOS
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College town : AMES
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___ for (summons) : SENDS
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Festive time : YULE
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Italian river : ARNO
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Manner : MIEN
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Legal abbreviation : INRE
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Place for fryers : SKILLET
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Beldame : CRONE
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Go over one's darning : REMEND
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Spanish queen : ENA
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Heavenly : ETHEREAL
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Baker's treats : PEACHPIES
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Man's name: Sp. : JULIANO
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Like the Mojave : ARID
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Futile : VAIN
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Inter ___ : ALIA
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Opera by Verdi : AIDA
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Mind : HEED
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Spaghetti, for one : PASTA
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Birdlike : AVIAN
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Slip : LAPSE
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Omit : ELIDE
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Word for some halls : IVIED
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Intrepidity : NERVE
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Inexperienced : GREEN
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Moves : RELOCATES
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Gasman's reading : METERAGE
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Abrades : SCRAPES
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Cheese : EDAM
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Meat cut : LOIN
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Getting along : ELDERLY
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Erred : SINNED
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Holders for ship's cables : BITTS
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S.A. rodent : PACA
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Source of power : ATOM
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Volume : TOME
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Skin, in Paris : PEAU
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Hero : IDOL
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Pay through the ___ : NOSE
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Ode subject : URN

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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