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New York Times, Tuesday, May 3, 1966

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F X Z }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 43.7
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© 1966, The New York TimesNo. 6,107
Across
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Poles. : SLAVS
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"What a piece of work is ___!" : AMAN
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Incidentals. : ODDS
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Livery. : HABIT
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Chief of a Moro tribe. : DATO
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Latin-American measure. : VARA
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Afghan prince. : AMEER
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Noun suffixes. : ASTS
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Sinister. : EVIL
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Where Fort-de-France is. : MARTINIQUE
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Runnel. : RILL
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Where Callao is. : PERU
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Dilly-dally. : DAWDLE
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Fast crowd, in a way. : JETSET
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Académie. : ECOLE
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Ram constellation. : ARIES
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Las Vegas figures. : CROUPIERS
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Thought: Fr. : IDEE
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Plain song. : CHANT
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Stick together. : GLUE
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Dramatic political victory. : LANDSLIDE
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County. : SHIRE
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"Grant us thy ___." : PEACE
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Consumes. : EATSUP
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Creek. : STREAM
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Become boring. : PALL
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Sound of merriment. : HAHA
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Type of poetry. : BLANKVERSE
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Mimic. : APER
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Bern's river. : AARE
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Farewell to the Islands. : ALOHA
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Wire spring. : COIL
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Singer Eartha. : KITT
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Fun's partner. : GAMES
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State: Abbr. : KANS
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Greek war goddess. : ENYO
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Adversary. : ENEMY
Down
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Make-believe. : SHAM
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Buddhist monk. : LAMA
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But: Ger. : ABER
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Element in Asian names. : VIET
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Chevrons. : STRIPES
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"Robin ___." : ADAIR
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Gay affair. : MASQUERADEPARTY
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Part of Alaska. : ATTU
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Defeated by a small margin. : NOSEDOUT
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Pudgy plus. : OVERWEIGHT
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French painter. : DAVID
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Cadets' routine. : DRILL
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Hall in a maison. : SALLE
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Clear. : NET
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High peak. : ALP
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Bastille. : JAIL
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"Siegfried" role. : ERDA
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___ Shan, mountains in Asia. : TIEN
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Gems of a kind. : SEEDPEARLS
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Geometrical solid. : CONE
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A la mode. : CHIC
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Where the Augean Stables were. : ELIS
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New Zealand owl. : RURU
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Trickle through. : SEEP
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Beach picnic. : CLAMBAKE
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The Red or the Black. : SEA
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Reclamation. : SALVAGE
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Shoe leather. : ELK
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Home, to some. : SHACK
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Small Australian marsupial. : TAPOA
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World-famous river. : RHEIN
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Highest peak in the Pyrenees. : ANETO
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Reclined. : LAIN
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Gallic verve. : ELAN
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World-famous city. : ROME
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Noah's eldest. : SHEM
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Informal. : EASY

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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