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New York Times, Monday, April 13, 1970

55-Down : Plant product

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 47, Avg Word Len: 4.68, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 40, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,548
Across
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River of Scotland : TAY
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Baseball great : OTT
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Give: in Scotland : GIE
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Eva or Magda : GABOR
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Haul : DRAG
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Food fragments : ORTS
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Delmarva's bay : CHESAPEAKE
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Plane altitude units : FEET
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Great Lakes port : TOLEDO
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Diamond State : DELAWARE
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Tree : ELM
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Gehrig : LOU
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Kind of race : RAT
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Violinist Stern : ISAAC
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City near Austin : TAYLOR
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Prefix with plasm and morph : ECTO
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Organize : SETUP
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Common verb : ARE
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Let go : RELEASE
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Kindled : SPARKED
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Before : ERE
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Macaroni : PASTA
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Bread end : HEEL
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Hippie event : LOVEIN
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Friend ___? : ORFOE
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Direction : ENE
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Inner: Prefix : ESO
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Sociologist's degree: abbr. : DSS
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Happening at Sutter's Mill : GOLDRUSH
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Old Hambletonian site : GOSHEN
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Wings : ALAE
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Section of Washington : GEORGETOWN
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Remit : SEND
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Retained : HELD
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Receiver : DONEE
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Shell : POD
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Dentist's initials : DDS
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Through : PER
Down
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Western resort : TAHOE
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"___ for Adano" : ABELL
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Western park : YOSEMITE
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Poem : ODE
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Slander : TRADUCE
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___ off : TAKE
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Michigan, for one : GREATLAKE
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Road: Lat. : ITER
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Punta del ___ : ESTE
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Basic time initials : GCT
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Energy unit : RAD
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Thicken : GEL
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Right ___ : OFWAY
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Negri : POLA
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Oklahoma tribe : ARAPAHO
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Havens : OASES
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Having more lather : SOAPIER
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Part of a steam hammer : TUP
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City S.W. of Moscow : OREL
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River of Southwest : RED
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Saarinen : EERO
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Location of Severance Hall : CLEVELAND
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Rulers : TSARS
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Bro. or sis. : REL
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Diego or Remo : SAN
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Organ part : REEDSTOP
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Nelson's relative : TOEHOLD
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Done : ENDED
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Cambridge art museum : FOGG
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Gleamed : SHONE
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Seamstress : SEWER
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Pant : GASP
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Food staple : OLEO
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Exclamation of disgust : UGH
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Plant product : SEED
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Certain ref. work : OED
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Compass reading : NNE
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Routes: Abbr. : RDS

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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