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New York Times, Monday, February 23, 1970

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 37.7 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,499
Across
1
Ecstatic : RAPT
5
Karate maneuver : CHOP
9
Wading bird : IBIS
13
Oriental servant : AMAH
14
Admirable : RARE
15
Flow : ARISE
16
Worthless : VILE
17
Beyond one's comprehension : INCREDIBLE
19
Meat, fish, etc. : EDIBLES
21
Hugged : CUDDLED
22
Discovers : SEES
23
Jutting rocks : TORS
24
Letter : ESS
25
Complete flop : FIASCO
27
Certain Alaskan : ALEUT
29
Suffix with dot or dull : ARD
30
Never ___ hair : TURNA
32
Diamond fly : POPUP
36
Lashes : TIES
38
Pitched shelters : TENTS
40
Stoa lecturer : ZENO
41
State in India : ASSAM
43
Unit : PIECE
45
L. A. player : RAM
46
Biting words : GIBES
48
Squabble : HASSLE
50
Solution: Abbr. : ANS
53
Webster : NOAH
54
Bone: Prefix : OSTE
55
Like Diogenes : CYNICAL
57
Silk filaments : SLEAVES
60
Bit of ingenuity : CLEVERIDEA
62
Biblical mount : NEBO
63
Bellows : ROARS
64
Kind of escape : NEAR
65
Bird's maw : CRAW
66
Williams : ANDY
67
Lapidary's concern : GEMS
68
Poultry : HENS
Down
1
Good review : RAVE
2
During : AMID
3
Hudson sight : PALISADES
4
Old capital of Egypt : THEBES
5
Shrieks : CRIESOUT
6
Andersen : HANS
7
Killer whale : ORC
8
Prepare coffee : PERCOLATE
9
Rainbow: Prefix : IRID
10
Perennial best-seller : BIBLE
11
Man and Wight : ISLES
12
Caraway product : SEEDS
15
Reckons : ADDSUP
18
Seine tributary : EURE
20
Podium offering: Abbr. : LECT
23
Slightly brown : TANNISH
25
___ morgana : FATA
26
Spring perennial : IRIS
28
From A ___ : TOZ
31
Annulling : REPEALING
33
Carry on : PERSEVERE
34
Single : UNAL
35
Fleshy fruit : POME
37
Become swaybacked : SAG
39
Ten o'clock and others : SCHOLARS
42
Walks primly : MINCES
44
Unburden : EASE
47
Tusked animal : BOAR
49
Put an end to : STANCH
50
Ghana's capital : ACCRA
51
Fish-line material : NYLON
52
Golf great : SNEAD
56
Paris suburb : IVRY
57
Mineral layer : SEAM
58
Abba : EBAN
59
Farm animals : SOWS
61
Letter : DEE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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