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New York Times, Wednesday, November 14, 1973

61-Across : "Right on!"

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 298 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
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© 1973, The New York TimesNo. 8,859
Across
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Thicket : COPSE
6
Book of the O. T. : AMOS
10
Turkish title : BABA
14
Copland : AARON
15
Incarnation of Vishnu : RAMA
16
Ancient kingdom : ELAM
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Archaeologist's find : SHARD
18
Pour : TEEM
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Gazelle of Africa : CORA
20
Mild reproof : TUTTUT
22
Ebbs : SLACKENS
24
Tourist's buy in Mexico : POTTERY
26
Draft org. : SSS
27
Area of Iran : ARAK
31
Sauce ___ (menu listing) : TARTARE
33
Disease of the East : BERIBERI
35
Hawaiian flower : ILIMA
39
Political neutral : MUGWUMP
40
Unauthorized : ILLEGAL
42
" ... ___ the child" : SPOIL
43
Menu item from Africa : COUSCOUS
44
Certain sweaters : SLIPONS
47
Music group : TRIO
48
Certain students: Abbr. : SRS
51
Train : EDUCATE
53
Sounds of time : TICKTICK
55
Young gourmand's remark : YUMYUM
60
Land measure : ACRE
61
"Right on!" : OKEY
63
Stir : ROUSE
64
Synagogue : SHUL
65
Word with bagatelle : MERE
66
Executive ailment : ULCER
67
Fiber : HEMP
68
Formerly, of old : ERST
69
Telescope sightings : STARS
Down
1
Characters in a play : CAST
2
Pacific island : OAHU
3
Trick, in Scotland : PRAT
4
Classify : SORT
5
Conclude : ENDUP
6
Linkletter : ART
7
Stokowski, Toscanini, etc. : MAESTRI
8
Menu item : OMELET
9
Elm fruit : SAMARA
10
___ and call : BECK
11
African lilies : ALOES
12
Farm buildings : BARNS
13
Collect : AMASS
21
___ pole : TOTEM
23
Actor Ritchard and others : CYRILS
25
Field covering, for short : TARP
27
Missiles: Abbr. : ABMS
28
Enlist again : REUP
29
Jason's ship : ARGO
30
Flightless birds : KIWIS
32
Choose : ELECT
34
Large dot, in printing : BULLET
36
Stravinsky : IGOR
37
Hawaiian island : MAUI
38
Besides : ALSO
40
Hebrides island : IONA
41
Robust : LUSTY
43
Certain spaniels : COCKERS
45
Dialect: Fr. : IDIOME
46
Wrinkle : PUCKER
48
Hide away : STASH
49
Nouveau ___ : RICHE
50
Rugby play : SCRUM
52
Greek wind god : EURUS
54
Seaweed : KELP
56
Discard, animal style : MOLT
57
Cassava : YUCA
58
Consumer : USER
59
French seas : MERS
62
Still : YET

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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