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New York Times, Saturday, November 12, 1960

30-Down : Desert.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
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© 1960, The New York TimesNo. 4,138
Across
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Storage place. : CLOSET
7
Envoy. : LEGATE
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Plate used in printing, for short. : ELECTRO
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Bouquets. : AROMAS
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Last but ___. : NOTLEAST
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Sings softly. : CROONS
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Golf club. : SPOON
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Kind. : SORT
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Van ___. : DYKE
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Kind of lettuce. : COS
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Acknowledge again. : REOWN
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Want. : LACK
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Small portions, as of butter. : PATS
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Rest: Fr. : REPOS
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Finnish seaport. : ABO
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Cicily Fairfield. : REBECCAWEST
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Garden plant. : VERBENA
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Part of a shoe. : OUTSOLE
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___ Whitehead. : ALFREDNORTH
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State: Abbr. : NEV
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Twisted about. : SLUED
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Type of song. : DUET
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Fictional Jane. : EYRE
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English racecourse. : ASCOT
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Being the more distant: Poet. : YON
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Cut, as in a skirt. : SLIT
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English prelate. : INGE
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Farm units. : ACRES
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Chopped up. : HASHED
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Boston's ___ Church. : OLDSOUTH
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Stick. : ADHERE
65
Supernatural beings. : SPIRITS
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One in costume. : WEARER
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Member of early ascetic sect. : ESSENE
Down
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Hoof sound. : CLOP
2
Mother of Apollo. : LETO
3
Time word. : OCLOCK
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Shorthand writer, for short. : STENO
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Age. : ERA
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Pitch. : TOSS
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Milk: Comb. form. : LACTO
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Make a fluff. : ERR
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Musical comedy of the 1930's. : GOODNEWS
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Neighbor of Quemoy. : AMOY
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Combat vehicle. : TANK
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To be: Lat. : ESSE
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Navy man: Abbr. : ENS
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Fancy German cake. : TORTE
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Reckon again. : RESCORE
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Exhaust. : SPEND
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Deeply resentful indignation. : WRATH
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Volcanic rocks. : LAVAS
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Ring ___. : ABELL
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One of the Ionian Islands. : CORFU
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Desert. : ABANDON
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Flower. : PEONY
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Canadian physician. : OSLER
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One of the Allens. : STEVE
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Certain orchestral instruments. : REEDS
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Short pipe for a Scotsman. : CUTTY
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A rest: Colloq. : BREATHER
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Efflux. : OUTGO
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Again! : ENCORE
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Beverage. : CIDER
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Desert place. : OASIS
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Famous Fabian. : SHAW
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Bail. : LADE
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One of the Upanishads. : ISHA
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Other. : ELSE
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Destruction. : RUIN
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Diminutive suffix. : ETTE
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Soothing sounds. : SHS
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Before: Poet. : ERE
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Men without a country. : DPS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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