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New York Times, Saturday, December 23, 1961

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 45.3 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry.
David Steinberg notes:

Original clue for 11-Down had "Mischevous"; corrected this to "Mischievous."

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© 1961, The New York TimesNo. 4,544
Across
1
Gorge. : CHASM
6
Put to ___ (surpass). : SHAME
11
Impressionable. : PLASTIC
13
Polishing in a certain way. : STONING
15
Leafy vegetable. : ROMAINE
16
"Flying Down to Rio" dance. : CARIOCA
17
Beast of burden. : ASS
18
Furnishers. : LENDERS
20
Relative, for short. : COZ
21
Saltpeter. : NITRE
23
Fan-___. : TAN
24
Soothing word, when repeated. : THERE
26
Crook in a tree branch. : KNEE
27
Bay of Luzon. : SUBIC
29
Little ___. : ONES
30
Chef's utensil. : GRATER
32
___ suzette. : CREPES
34
Responsibility. : DUTY
35
Criterion. : RULE
36
Rose rapidly. : SHOTUP
38
Solicit. : ASKFOR
41
Poetic pronoun. : THOU
42
Fold of cloth. : PLAIT
44
Of a certain shape. : OVAL
46
Tracks. : HUNTS
48
Quite. : ALL
49
Curved mark over a short vowel. : BREVE
50
A direction. : ENE
51
Event in Chinatown. : TONGWAR
54
Piece of music. : RAG
55
Joking. : INSPORT
57
Reduce to a mean. : AVERAGE
59
Puts out (a baseball batter). : RETIRES
60
Tyrolean vocalist. : YODELER
61
Units of force. : DYNES
62
Barriers. : WALLS
Down
1
Farewell, as a performance. : CLOSING
2
Cute rodent. : HAMSTER
3
Happy ___ lark. : ASA
4
Upright piece in a frame. : STILE
5
Burrow. : MINE
6
Christmas symbol. : STAR
7
___ Wessel Lied (Nazi song). : HORST
8
Cuckoo. : ANI
9
Division of the tertiary system. : MIOCENE
10
Repetitions. : ENCORES
11
Mischievous caper. : PRANK
12
Mexican floras. : CENTURYPLANTS
13
Amusement park specialty. : SCENICRAILWAY
14
Looks with eagerness. : GAZES
19
Flounder. : DAB
22
An electronic meter indication. : READOUT
25
Desire with expectation. : HOPEFOR
27
Prearrange. : SETUP
28
Part of a pie. : CRUST
31
Impatient exclamation. : TUT
33
Shoe leather. : ELK
36
Eschewed. : SHUNNED
37
Probity. : HONESTY
39
Including everything. : OVERALL
40
Devastates. : RAVAGES
41
Possessive adjective. : THEIR
43
Math subject: Abbr. : ALG
45
Light: Fr. : LEGER
47
Bodega. : STORE
49
Netherlands city. : BREDA
52
Assayer's concern. : ORES
53
Own. : AVOW
56
Flag staff on the links. : PIN
58
Kind of pronoun: Abbr. : REL

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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