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New York Times, Monday, May 1, 1972

27-Down : Fruits

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J K Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 29.3
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,297
Across
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Fine horse : ARAB
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Eastern faith : ISLAM
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Not kosher : TREF
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Chevalier movie : GIGI
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Author of Christmas poem : MOORE
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Verdi girl : AIDA
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Gulf off east Africa : ADEN
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Bridge-table replay : POSTMORTEM
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Determined : RESOLUTE
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Gasoline word : OCTANE
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Cohan's girl : MARY
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Surface : AREA
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Be ambitious : ASPIRE
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Eternal shape : TRIANGLE
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Suffix for bed : STEAD
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Weighed down : LADEN
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Unit in physics : RAD
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River duck : TEAL
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Aegean island : SAMOS
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Strong taste : TANG
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Do wrong : ERR
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Basketball player : CAGER
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English coins : PENCE
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Had recourse to : RESORTED
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Safari member : BEATER
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Poker holding : PAIR
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Horn sound : BEEP
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Western capital : HELENA
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Certain aircraft : SEAPLANE
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"It's ___" (tout's come-on) : ASURETHING
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Chinese island : AMOY
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Zola novel : NANA
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Studio item : EASEL
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Baseball team : NINE
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Club billings : DUES
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Strike : SMITE
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Three, in Barcelona : TRES
Down
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Seaweed product : AGAR
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Lie at anchor : RIDE
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Epochs : AGES
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Kind of theorem : BINOMIAL
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Defiled : IMPURE
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Smudged : SOOTY
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Misplace : LOSE
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Skill : ART
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Reminiscences : MEMORIES
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Highland wear : TARTAN
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Hayworth : RITA
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Biblical home : EDEN
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Renown : FAME
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Whale's milieu : OCEAN
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Frying aid : LARD
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Zeal : ARDOR
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Disparaging suffix for poet : ASTER
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Metric unit : STERE
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Fruits : PEARS
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Reclaimed from the wild : TAMED
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Concede : GRANT
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Jousting gear : LANCE
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Lawn trimmer : EDGER
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Kind of beer : LAGER
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Gluts : SATIATES
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Shrub of India and Ceylon : TEAPLANT
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Ichabod : CRANE
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Incubator sound : PEEP
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Met offerings : OPERAS
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Type of dog : BEAGLE
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Stephen or William Rose : BENET
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Allotment of cards : HAND
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Isaac's son : ESAU
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Crescent : LUNE
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Emphatic assent in Mexico : SISI
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Moslem prince : AMIR
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Zero : NONE
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Looks at : EYES
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Sandwich filler : HAM

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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