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New York Times, Wednesday, March 29, 1972

49-Across : Warden's place

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { F J K Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 246 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 19.6
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,264
Across
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Peppers of Hawaii : AVAS
5
Dice numbers : SICES
10
Australian possum : TAIT
14
No-no in pinball : TILT
15
Undercover man : PLANT
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Russian hemp : RINE
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Finished : OVER
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Certain mechanic : OILER
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Goad : URGE
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Initials : MONOGRAM
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Ascended : ARISEN
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If ___ be : NEED
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Life stories, for short : BIOS
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Part of a theater : STAGE
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Low-weight molecule : MONOMER
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Zeroed in on a target : HOMED
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Gold or Ivory : COAST
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Pat gently : DAB
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Moslem prince : AMIR
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Malaysian ape : LAR
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Bill of fare : MENU
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Witch : HAG
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"___ at 'em!" : UPAND
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Ballads : SONGS
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Confound : NONPLUS
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Start : ONSET
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Turkish generals : AGAS
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Venus's home : MILO
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Warden's place : PRISON
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Thing of great stature : MONOLITH
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Charged atoms : IONS
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Provoke : TEASE
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Hatred: It. : ODIO
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Feminine suffix : ETTE
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Theater direction : ENTER
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"I will ___ farther" : GONO
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Place for a mail slot : DOOR
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Dinner fare : ROAST
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Vehicle : SLED
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Minute quantity : ATOM
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Lively, in music : VIVO
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Danish measure : ALEN
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More robust : STRONGER
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Germ cell : SPORE
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Epic poem : ILIAD
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Tranquil : CALM
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Direction: Abbr. : ENE
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Ancestral lines : STRAINS
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Cliché : TRUISM
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Put on ___ : AIRS
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Dean or William : INGE
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Certain age : TEEN
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Turned right : GEED
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Elihu : ROOT
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Room and ___ : BOARD
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Mideast V.I.P. : SHAH
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Coin of old Persia : TOMAN
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Friend, in Nogales : AMIGO
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Sounds of distress : MOANS
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States of happiness : EDENS
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Kitchen equipment : RANGE
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Yule name : CLAUS
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Worthless bridge hand : BUST
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Comedian's patters: Var. : MONOLOGS
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Ascent : UPGO
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Flower box : PLANTER
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Concert piece : SOLO
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U.A.R. name : NASSER
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Grandma of note : MOSES
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Sluggish : INERT
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Many-colored : PIED
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Prefix for gravure : ROTO
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Preposition : INTO
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Hari : MATA
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Image : IDOL
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Prong : TINE
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Gangster : HOOD
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Wine: Prefix : ENO

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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