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New York Times, Saturday, April 22, 1961

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.24, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 40.8
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© 1961, The New York TimesNo. 4,299
Across
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Child's confection. : BUBBLEGUM
10
Get on. : BOARD
15
Amounts overdue. : ARREARAGE
16
Part of Ouida's real name. : RAMEE
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Ringing devices. : DOORBELLS
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Pieces of information. : ITEMS
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___ stick. : POGO
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Walking space. : AISLE
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Long-tailed monkey. : SAI
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Brick-carrying device. : HOD
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Fixed procedure. : ROTE
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Business. : AFFAIR
28
Way: Suffix. : ODE
29
Figure on a nickel. : BISON
31
Skin irritation. : ACNE
32
Book of the Apocrypha. : ESDRAS
35
Gauche. : TACTLESS
37
Utah town near Provo. : OREM
39
Solutions. : KEYS
40
Piece of real estate. : PREMISES
44
Soprano. : TREBLE
48
Source of pumice. : LAVA
49
Trite. : STALE
51
Swiss river. : AAR
52
Show plainly. : EVINCE
54
Hollywood name. : LADD
56
Initials on a Rockefeller Center building. : RCA
57
Thus: Lat. : SIC
58
U. S. dramatist. : ODETS
60
Individual group. : UNIT
62
___ voce. : SOTTO
64
Seasonal evergreen plant. : MISTLETOE
67
Colorless, oily compound. : OLEIN
68
Vestal virgin. : PRIESTESS
69
Amusement park activities. : RIDES
70
Sibyls. : SEERESSES
Down
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Severe. : BAD
2
Limbs on a lobster. : UROPODS
3
Pondered. : BROODED
4
Frozen mass. : BERG
5
Cabinet post. : LABOR
6
Heretofore. : ERE
7
Major port of the lower Danube. : GALATI
8
Most unsightly. : UGLIEST
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Eat. : MESS
10
Fleeting. : BRIEF
11
Cereal grass. : OAT
12
Lowest throw at dice. : AMESACE
13
Continues. : REMAINS
14
Requests. : DESIRES
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Having an acutely pointed arch. : LANCETED
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Tool. : HOE
25
Preoccupied. : OBSESSED
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Deceptive. : FALSE
30
What 64 Across often grows on. : OAK
33
Most common printing type. : ROMAN
34
"Exodus" character. : ARI
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Son of Odin. : TYR
38
Came together. : MET
40
Hammer with a rubber head, used in percussion. : PLESSOR
41
Italian dish. : RAVIOLI
42
Put out. : EVICTED
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St. Andrew's cross. : SALTIRE
45
White minerals use in paints. : BARITES
46
Milk sugar. : LACTOSE
47
Time. : ERA
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TV program. : LASSIE
53
Nocturnal animals. : COONS
55
Seaweed. : DULSE
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Rulers: Abbr. : EMPS
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Court dividers. : NETS
63
Rail beam. : TIE
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Gerard ___ Borch, Dutch Little Master. : TER
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Letter. : ESS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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