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New York Times, Thursday, December 24, 1970

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J K Q V X }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 35.5 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,803
Across
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Cut of veal : CHOP
5
Drawing room : SALON
10
Electric catfish : RAAD
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Wife of Zeus : HERA
15
Barton : CLARA
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___'acte : ENTR
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Moslem priest : IMAM
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Carouse, in olden days : ROIST
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Willow genus : ITEA
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Focus : PINPOINT
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One of a scheduled nine : INNING
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River to North Sea : ELBE
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Course : ROAD
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Capital of Croatia : ZAGREB
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Placed in a certain way : CENTERED
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Building wing : ELL
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"Hellzapoppin" name : OLSEN
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Important French river : SEINE
37
Gil ___ : BLAS
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Sea duck : EIDER
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American Beauty : ROSE
42
Fortification : REDAN
44
Stair part : NEWEL
46
Male sheep : TUP
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Windflowers : ANEMONES
49
Talks back : SASSES
51
Ship part : PROW
52
Where Zeno taught : STOA
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Tree similar to the apple : MEDLAR
56
Renegade : APOSTATE
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Plant of lily family : ALOE
61
Use the mutuels : WAGER
63
Major or Minor : URSA
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Fashion name : DIOR
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Adjust : ALINE
66
Inlets : RIAS
67
Projections : EARS
68
Prior times: Abbr. : YESTS
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Informal negative : NARY
Down
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Candy piece : CHIP
2
Prefix for sphere : HEMI
3
African port : ORAN
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Coddle : PAMPER
5
Scrawl : SCRIBBLE
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Singly : ALONE
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Milk: Fr. : LAIT
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Correlatives : ORS
9
Part of a D. W. Griffith title : NATION
10
Seasonal steed : REINDEER
11
Opposed : ANTI
12
Solar ring : ATEN
13
Kind of race : DRAG
21
Spread : OLEO
23
Baseball team : NATS
25
Bring up-to-date : RENEW
26
Veld sight : ZEBRA
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Leader of Green Mountain Boys : ALLEN
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Forest opening : GLADE
29
Surrenders : CEDES
30
Disturbances : RIOTS
31
Follow : ENSUE
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Oceans. poetically : DEEPS
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Muscle : SINEW
38
Needlework items : SAMPLERS
40
Brings back : RESTORES
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Wife of the Thin Man : NORA
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Asian land : LAOS
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Peer Gynt's home : NORWAY
50
Space vehicle : SATURN
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All in : SPENT
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Fashioned : MADE
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Pen name : ELIA
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Dutch or front : DOOR
56
Spartan king : AGIS
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Concert passage : ARIA
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Nicholas : TSAR
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Simple : EASY
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Bar order : ALE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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