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New York Times, Thursday, March 5, 1970

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { B J Q Y }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 40.4
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,509
Across
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Bolivian city : LAPAZ
6
Jokester : WAG
9
Bewails : KEENS
14
Outflank : EVADE
15
___ glance : ATA
16
Push : IMPEL
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Examples : PARADIGMS
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Steeple : SPIRE
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Time abbreviation : EST
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Debases oneself : STOOPSSOLOW
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Hwys. : RTES
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Election winners : INS
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Sandwich : HERO
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Groups of common ancestry : KINS
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Patterns : DESIGNS
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Roman official : AEDILE
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Golfing area : TEE
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Musician Leopold : AUER
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Estadio cry : OLE
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Overdue debts : ARREARS
41
Outside: Prefix : EXO
42
___ Pompilius, Roman king : NUMA
44
U.S. agency: Abbr. : AEC
45
Imposes, with "on" : FOISTS
47
Carbon or boron : ELEMENT
49
Tree animal, for short : COON
50
___ on the back : APAT
51
Surface material : TAR
52
Asian hardwood : ACLE
56
Davy lamp : MINERSTORCH
60
Haul : LUG
61
Moslem rulers : AMIRS
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Giving an impression : APPEARING
64
Eastern queen : RANEE
65
Poe girl : LEE
66
Scope : RANGE
67
Feeling of dread : ANGST
68
Knack : ART
69
Penned : INKED
Down
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Outcast : LEPER
2
Sea call : AVAST
3
Ex ___ : PARTE
4
Nabokov girl : ADA
5
Last letters, in Britain : ZEDS
6
Vans : WAGONS
7
Self-winding mercury clock : ATMOS
8
Catch one's breath : GASP
9
Candies : KISSES
10
Kansas city : EMPORIA
11
Afterwords : EPILOGUES
12
Claudius's successor : NERO
13
Whole lot, informally : SLEW
18
Migrants : ITINERANTS
22
___ of will power : SHEERFORCE
24
Engage in a slalom race : SKI
28
Waterfront org. : ILA
29
Goddess: Lat. : DEA
30
Barber's call : NEXT
31
Broadway signs : SROS
32
Top-notch : AONE
33
Jewish month : ELUL
34
Lowering in dignity : DEMEANING
35
Gumshoe : TEC
39
Inactive: Abbr. : RET
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U.S. railroad, for short : SOO
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Electrical units : AMPERES
46
One ___ million : INA
48
Radio adjunct : EARSET
49
Red or Persian : CARPET
51
Sot : TOPER
53
Calaboose : CLINK
54
Thrust forward : LUNGE
55
Urged, with "on" : EGGED
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Buddhist spirit : MARA
57
"___, 1 vote" : IMAN
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S. A. timber tree : TALA
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Mata ___ : HARI
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Fled : RAN

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4 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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