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New York Times, Friday, March 26, 1971

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 251 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 23.3
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© 1971, The New York TimesNo. 7,895
Across
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Successful shows : HITS
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Aleksei Peshkov : GORKI
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H. H. Munro : SAKI
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Neglect : OMIT
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Violently : AMAIN
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Football infraction : CLIP
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Information : DATA
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Shops : MARTS
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Charged atoms : IONS
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Jean Baptiste Poquelin : MOLIERE
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Ohio port : TOLEDO
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Knows, old style : WOTS
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Spin a floating log : BIRL
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Old-hat : STALE
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François Marie Arouet : VOLTAIRE
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___ Haute : TERRE
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Brooks : RILLS
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Nest: Fr. : NID
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Item on a handbag: Abbr. : INIT
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Commends : CITES
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Pledge : GAGE
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Certain reading matter : PAP
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Least particles : IOTAS
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Vladimir Ulyanov : LENIN
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Marie Henri Beyle : STENDHAL
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Tunneled : MINED
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Violinist Bull and others : OLES
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Common contraction : DONT
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Chatters : PRATES
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Erich Weiss : HOUDINI
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Hideout : LAIR
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Type abbreviation : ITALS
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Italian resort : LIDO
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Eye : OGLE
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Rodents : VOLES
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Hebrew month : ELUL
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Hardy heroine : TESS
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Lyric poem : EPODE
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Ship : SEND
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Bricklayer's need : HOD
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Mosque priest : IMAM
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Josip Broz : TITO
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Valiant : STALWART
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Mature germ cell : GAMETE
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Sharif and Khayyam : OMARS
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Underdone : RARE
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Small fiddle : KIT
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Imparts gradually : INSTILLS
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Liliaceous plant : SCILLA
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Century plant : ALOE
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Type : KIND
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___ facto : IPSO
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Captive of Hercules : IOLE
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Scraps : ORTS
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Tree trunks : BOLES
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Foreign political body : SENAT
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Rubbish : TRIPE
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Essential : VITAL
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Empty : INANE
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Exacting : RIGID
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"East of ___" : EDEN
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Handy hints : TIPS
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Hayworth and Tushingham : RITAS
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Bringing together : COHESIVE
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Christians : GENTILES
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Not in use : IDLE
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Swedish soprano : LIND
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Ours: Fr. : NOTRES
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Dessert : MOUSSE
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Distributed : DOLED
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Scheme : PLOT
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Vogue : RAGE
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Troubles : AILS
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Headgear for some : HALO
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Shade of green or blue : NILE
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Wife of Norse myth : IDUN
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Tip's partner : TOP
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Word with maid or master : OLD

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

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