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New York Times, Friday, December 16, 1955

29-Down : With: Fr.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 46.3 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
David Steinberg notes:

Original 31-Across clue had "Product of cre-"; "ative work" appeared after the clue for 30-Across. Fixed this.

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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,362
Across
1
Sounds of a dance. : TAPS
5
Fairish. : SOSO
9
Founded. : BASED
14
Soil: Comb. form. : AGRO
15
Drop on water. : PLOP
16
Delicious, for example. : APPLE
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Lauded as first-rate. : CRACKEDUP
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Part of a dam. : SPILL
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Zigzagged. : TACKED
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Gay rake. : LOTHARIO
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Two-year-old sheep. : TEG
24
Entangle. : MESH
25
Secondary. : LESS
26
Hard hit. : SMIT
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Part of FBI. : FEDERAL
30
Its chairman is Lewis Strauss. : AEC
31
Product of creative work. : ART
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Diverse. : SEVERAL
36
French hackney coach. : FIACRE
38
Roman official. : AEDILE
39
Twined. : ENLACED
41
And so on: Abbr. : ETC
42
Collins' rank: Abbr. : GEN
43
Is sorry : LAMENTS
45
Pochard. : SMEE
46
Sea between Kazakh and Uzbek Republics. : ARAL
49
Greenland base. : ETAH
50
Derisive exclamation. : AHA
51
Tyro. : BEGINNER
53
Relative of the cockchafer. : SCARAB
56
Lower. : ABASE
57
Become stricter (with "on"). : CRACKDOWN
59
Bill of fare. : CARTE
60
Commotion. : TODO
61
She: Spanish. : ELLA
62
Two connectives. : ANDOR
63
Clout. : SWAT
64
Ricky's other name. : DESI
Down
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Diplomatic virtue. : TACT
2
Where Akbar's tomb is. : AGRA
3
Useful. : PRACTICAL
4
Hollow holder. : SOCKET
5
Scudded. : SPED
6
Wise. : OLD
7
Possessing feeling. : SOULED
8
Resists. : OPPOSES
9
Heavy blow: Slang. : BASH
10
Shocked. : APPALLED
11
Summit. : SPIRE
12
Island in New York harbor. : ELLIS
13
Island of the Cyclades. : DELOS
18
100 lbs. of nails. : KEG
22
Menaces. : THREATS
24
Refuted. : MET
26
Prudent. : SAFE
27
"___ Kampf." : MEIN
28
Beneficiaries of civil liberties. : FREEMEN
29
With: Fr. : AVEC
31
Ecclesiastic box. : ARCA
33
Relative of gobbledygook. : RIGMAROLE
34
Not aweather. : ALEE
35
Phonetically smooth. : LENE
37
Nymph who was changed into a bear. : CALLISTO
40
Discovers hidden facts. : DETECTS
41
Suffix of ordinal numbers. : ETH
44
Not liberal. : NARROW
45
Obscured. : SHADED
46
Kind of hemp. : ABACA
47
Forbid anew. : REBAN
48
Henry Wallace's middle name. : AGARD
50
Answering letter: Abbr. : ACK
52
Poetic contraction. : NEER
53
Roderick Dhu. : SCOT
54
Sharp instruments. : AWLS
55
___ B'rith, Jewish fraternity. : BNAI
58
Oklahoma city. : ADA

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

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