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New York Times, Friday, November 3, 1972

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.64, Missing: { F J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 59, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 18.4
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,483
Across
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State of the Salt Flats : UTAH
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Sawbuck : TEN
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Navy police: Abbr. : SPS
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Vikings, e.g. : NORSE
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Girl's name : ERMA
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Town map : PLAT
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With 22 Across, advice of sorts : DONTGIVEUP
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Newspaper section : ROTO
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___ Miss : OLE
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Bucks : ONES
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Paris transit : METRO
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Support : PIER
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See 15 Across : THESHIP
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Rounded projections : LOBES
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Monkey or paint : GREASE
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Manifest : OVERT
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Bridge expert Sydney : LENZ
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Foray : RAID
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No. 1 of a trio : VENI
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Soft touch : PATSY
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No. 2 of a trio : VIDI
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Tight and wide men : ENDS
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Entrance : ADIT
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Auto or chair : SEDAN
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Profession : CAREER
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Kind of agent : PRESS
44
Irritations for drivers : DETOURS
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Saint Jean and de la Cité : ILES
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Uriah and family : HEEPS
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Allied by nature : AKIN
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Clock number : VII
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French river : ORNE
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Petticoat décor : LACEEDGING
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Uncles to niños : TIOS
59
Angers : IRES
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Figure in 1921 trial : SACCO
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Poetic word : EER
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"___ about time!" : ITS
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Fibber : LIAR
Down
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Ruin : UNDO
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Awl or saw : TOOL
3
English musician : ARNE
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Well-known monogram : HST
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Very, in Paris : TRES
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Ostrich relative : EMU
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Forty winks : NAP
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Tree animal : SLOTH
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Writer Angelo : PATRI
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Porch : STOOP
12
Self-interested one : EGOIST
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Tamiami Trail area : EVERGLADES
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Canners : PRESERVERS
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Chemical suffix : INE
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My: Fr. : MES
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Kind of peepholes : PERISCOPES
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Big successes : TENSTRIKES
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Vague : HAZY
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___-fifteen : LOVE
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Kiln : OVEN
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Influence : BEND
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Fasten again : RETIE
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___-mémoire : AIDE
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Lupino and others : IDAS
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Noises : DINS
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Catherine ___ : PARR
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Lays out : SPENDS
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Out of, in Berlin : AUS
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Table ___ : DHOTE
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Weird : EERIE
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Caruso, for one : TENOR
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Golfer's concern : LIE
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Some serves : ACES
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No. 3 of a trio : VICI
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Quechuan : INCA
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Stravinsky : IGOR
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Fifty-two for Cicero : LII
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Skill : ART
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Dame : GAL

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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