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New York Times, Tuesday, February 10, 1970

29-Down : Glosses over

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.68, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,486
Across
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1935 Derby winner : OMAHA
6
Cigar or brass : BAND
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Priestly caste of old Persia : MAGI
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Tooth : MOLAR
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Surf sound : ROAR
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Unwrap : OPEN
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Straight : ERECT
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Playwright : INGE
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Fume : REEK
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Grigri, sometimes : NECKLACE
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Doctors' org. : AMA
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Before : ERE
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Grigris : AMULETS
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Breach : SCHISM
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Barometer measurement : PRESSURE
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Banking deals : LOANS
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Office worker : CLERK
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Hiatus : GAP
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Blunders : ERRS
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Layers : COATS
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Russian river : NEVA
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Likely pass receiver : END
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Isolated : ALONE
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Kind of metal : MONEL
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Memento : KEEPSAKE
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Tags : LABELS
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Urban arteries : STREETS
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Dinnertime, for some : SIX
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Mrs. Nixon : PAT
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Grigri : TALISMAN
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Bloke : CHAP
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Iniquitous : EVIL
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Site of Kineo and Katahdin : MAINE
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Part : ROLE
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Frog: Prefix : RANI
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Capitol name : AGNEW
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Jan. to Jan. : YEAR
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Charon's river : STYX
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Minimum : LEAST
Down
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Black cat, to some : OMEN
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Seconds, at the table : MORE
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Fish sauce : ALEC
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Trashy writer : HACK
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Naive : ARTLESS
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Baby Snooks : BRICE
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Top-drawer : AONE
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Be a shrewish wife : NAG
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Ivory-tower inhabitants : DREAMERS
10
Scruples : MORALS
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Alleged ancestor : APE
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Equine order : GEE
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Press necessity : INK
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Inlet : ARM
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Kind of ox : MUSK
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Ridge : ARETE
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Home of the Webfoots : EUGENE
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Gulliver's forte : TRAVEL
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Calyx leaves : SEPALS
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Glosses over : SLEEKS
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Horn : CORNET
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More steely : HARDER
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Those holding power : INS
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Sycamore : PLANE
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In excess, broth spoilers : COOKS
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Moves noisily : CLATTERS
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San Francisco hill : NOB
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Lost : ASEA
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Greatest : MAXIMAL
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Capsicum : PEPPER
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Describing a Yokum : LIL
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Genus of willows : SALIX
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Microscopic : TINY
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Scarlet flower or purple herb : SAGE
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Talking bird: Var. : MINA
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Once, in Scotland : ANES
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Eft : NEWT
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Call : CRY
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Dig potatoes : HOE
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Neighbor of Miss. : ALA
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Cauldron : VAT

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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