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New York Times, Thursday, May 28, 1964

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 28.9
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© 1964, The New York TimesNo. 5,415
Across
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Until: Sp. : HASTA
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Soda adjunct. : STRAW
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Person of rank: Abbr. : KNT
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Flower. : ASTER
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Town on Cape Cod. : TRURO
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Debtor's concern. : IOU
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Deplorable. : SORRY
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Stair part. : RISER
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Initials of 1860–61. : CSA
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Scot's name. : ALEC
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Leave in the lurch. : JILT
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Accepted. : TAKEN
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Feature of the Fair. : TOWEROFLIGHT
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One of the missiles. : NIKE
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Prairie wolves. : COYOTES
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Shove roughly. : JOSTLE
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Rural sound. : BAA
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Dirt speck. : MOTE
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Foot tap, in fencing. : APPEL
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Bad: Prefix. : MAL
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Leg of mutton. : GIGOT
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Type of light. : NEON
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Rest. : SIT
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Italian city on the Adriatic. : ANCONA
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Outward curve of the shaft of a column. : ENTASIS
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Author Paton. : ALAN
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Makes over. : RECONSTRUCTS
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Aquamarine. : BERYL
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Mislay. : LOSE
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Comedian Sahl. : MORT
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Swiss canton. : URI
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Act, in a way. : EMOTE
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Famous theater in Dublin. : ABBEY
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Brownie: Var. : NIS
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Basket shooter. : CAGER
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Wild. : FERAL
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Tongue-clucking sound. : TSK
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Rendezvous. : TRYST
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Clientele. : TRADE
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Attacks. : HASAT
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Italian home of the Brownings. : ASOLO
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Scatter. : STREW
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Cause for celebration in N.Y.C. : TERCENTENARY
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Noun suffix. : ARY
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Contention. : STRIFE
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Singer's forte. : TRILL
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Countrified, old style. : RUSTICAL
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Common verb. : ARE
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Meritorious. : WORTHY
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Punt. : KICK
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Roman ___. : NOSE
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Sir, in the East. : TUAN
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Thing done in fun. : JOKE
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Scientist's concern. : ATOMICNUMBER
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Rivulet. : RILL
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Tibetan gazelle. : GOA
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"And four ___." : TOGO
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Kind of collar. : ETON
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___ precedent. : SETA
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Mrs. Doe. : JANE
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Candid. : OPEN
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Place. : SPOT
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Racket. : BAT
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Hatred of reasoning. : MISOLOGY
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Growl, old style. : GNAR
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Thus: Lat. : SIC
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Der ___. : ALTE
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Choose. : SELECT
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State positively. : ASSERT
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Speaker's need. : NOTES
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Snake charmer's prop. : COBRA
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Surface of a step. : TREAD
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Etching needle. : STYLE
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Baseball play. : BUNT
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Greek goddess. : ERIS
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Chance. : RISK
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Impair. : MAR
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Day time: Abbr. : AFT

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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