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New York Times, Friday, December 17, 1971

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Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 92, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 12.6
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© 1971, The New York TimesNo. 8,161
Across
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Dissolved, as a partnership : BROKEUP
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Relied on : SWOREBY
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Meet casually : RUNINTO
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Large deer : CARIBOU
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"Private Lives" girl et al. : AMANDAS
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Part, as related to trap or rapt : ANAGRAM
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November duty : VOTE
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"Forsyte Saga" volume : TOLET
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Explorer Johnson : OSA
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Miner's quest : ORE
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Slipped back : RELAPSED
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Madagascar mammals : LEMURS
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Excited : AGOG
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Convertible furniture : SOFABEDS
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Good friend, in France : BONAMI
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Gastronome : EPICURE
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Participle, at times : DANGLER
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Dentist's concern : CAVITY
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Austen's "___ Sensibility" : SENSEAND
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Now and ___ : THEN
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One short of breath : PANTER
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Table-hopper : GADABOUT
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Little bit : JOT
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Music syllable : SOL
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Discovered : GOTAT
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Sand hill : DUNE
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Stuffed : OVERATE
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Fitting : INORDER
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Exceeded : RANOVER
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Salad additive : VINEGAR
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City on S.F. Bay : ALAMEDA
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Scriptural interpreter : EXEGETE
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Opera ovation : BRAVO
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Hearsay : RUMOR
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Explorer Juan de ___ : ONATE
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Poetic cows : KINE
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Objective : END
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Lizard genus : UTA
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Church music : POSTLUDE
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Trafficks in tickets : SCALPS
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Ebbs : WANES
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Make a speech : ORATE
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Manipulate fraudulently : RIG
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Spanish river : EBRO
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Ethnologist Franz : BOAS
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Arizona Indian : YUMA
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Crew call : OARS
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Confute : REBUT
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Polishing substance : EMERY
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Thin-ice sign : DANGER
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Braid trim : LACING
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Showy : GALA
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Prognostic : OMEN
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Hem in : GIRD
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Religious body : SECT
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Ocean food fish : OPAH
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Knicks or Celtics : FIVE
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African tongue : BANTU
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Start : ONSET
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Serving to indicate : DENOTIVE
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Island in Antilles : SABA
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Old Roman dish : PATERA
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Century plant : AGAVE
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Lavished love : DOTED
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Crater, for one : JUDGE
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___ a time (singly) : ONEAT
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___ verte, green pigment : TERRE
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Short-billed rail : SORA
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Face shape : OVAL
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Horne : LENA
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Small remnant : DREG
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Gypsy man : ROM
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No soap : NIX
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Individual : ONE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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