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New York Times, Wednesday, December 4, 1957

29-Down : Gnat.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.68, Missing: { F K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 3,081
Across
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Carry on theatrically. : EMOTE
6
South Dakota Senator. : CASE
10
Resting. : ABED
14
Verboten. : TABOO
15
Turn in a certain direction. : ORIENTATE
17
Bits. : ATOMS
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Senatorial prober. : MCCLELLAN
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Promote. : HELP
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Vehicle. : BUS
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Piquant. : SALTY
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Stirs deeply. : AWES
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Edible fish. : BASS
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Like. : ADMIRE
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Damage. : MAR
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Ancient deity, modern missile. : THOR
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"Mule Train" man. : LAINE
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Emulate 34 Across. : SING
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Hoosier fabulist. : ADE
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Thespian team. : OLSENANDJOHNSON
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Scottish verb form. : HAE
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Walt Kelly's creation. : POGO
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Eccentric. : OUTRE
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River in Yorkshire. : AIRE
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___ lamb. : EWE
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Compulsion. : DURESS
48
Full of life. : SPRY
50
Place of trade. : MART
51
___-dire (namely): Fr. : CESTA
54
Eternity. : EON
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Where Monument Valley is. : UTAH
59
Offerings to God. : OBLATIONS
62
Cape Cod town. : TRURO
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Western writer. : BRETHARTE
64
Evening star. : VENUS
65
Inventor of lockstitch sewing machine. : HOWE
66
Negatives. : NOES
67
White House VIP. : ADAMS
Down
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Greenland base. : ETAH
2
Defeat at chess. : MATE
3
Agora coin. : OBOL
4
Patriot of '76. : TOMPAINE
5
Greek goddess. : EOS
6
Dionysus' follower. : COMUS
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Spark streams. : ARCS
8
Thus. : SIC
9
Fish. : EEL
10
Finally. : ATLAST
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TV celebrity. : BALL
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Coup d'___. : ETAT
13
Repudiate. : DENY
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State of: Suffix. : NESS
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Social gathering. : BEE
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Songbird. : WREN
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Musical instrument. : BANJO
25
Ancient ship. : ARGO
26
Word of greeting. : ALOHA
27
___ Lama. : DALAI
28
Parsimonious one. : MISER
29
Gnat. : MIDGE
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Impetuousness. : HASTE
32
Scents. : ODORS
33
Coty and Pleven. : RENES
35
White. : SNOWY
38
Imitator. : APER
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Period of time. : HOUR
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Maintained. : NURTURED
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Possessions. : ESTATE
47
Cupid's title. : DAN
49
Course taken. : PATH
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Biblical patriarch. : MOSES
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Port, formerly Queenstown. : COBH
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575-mi. river of Spain. : EBRO
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Twist. : SLEW
54
Grafted: Her. : ENTE
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Edible fish. : TUNA
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Jack-in-the-pulpit. : ARUM
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Cowpoke's mount. : HOSS
60
___ Hay, English novelist. : IAN
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Spanish gold. : ORO
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Tennessee's pride. : TVA

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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