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New York Times, Saturday, May 9, 1970

29-Across : Flabbergasts

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { F J Q V }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,574
Across
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Flower : IRIS
5
Plains Indian : KIOWA
10
Time zone: Abbr. : MST
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Common contraction : DONT
14
Unimpaired : INTACT
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O'Neill subject : APE
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Girl's nickname : ETTA
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Traces : SCINTILLAS
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Colorless : ACHROMIC
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Nut parts : MEATS
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Heron : EGRET
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Dying fire : EMBERS
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Money a creditor must accept : LEGALTENDER
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Flabbergasts : AMAZES
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Benefit : INTEREST
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Comic : MIME
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Timetable abbreviation : STA
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___ 67 : EXPO
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San Francisco area : PRESIDIO
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Famed U. S. dancer : DUNCAN
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Big event in '69 : MOONLANDING
45
Go back in business : REOPEN
48
Go over books : AUDIT
49
Asia Minor region : IONIA
50
Add textual comments : ANNOTATE
53
Has suspicions : SMELLSARAT
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Building beam : IBAR
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Hebrew letter : MEM
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Charge with gas : AERATE
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Girl's name : OLGA
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Bean : SOY
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Brought under control : TAMED
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State of being: Suffix : NESS
Down
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Impression : IDEA
2
Army school: Abbr. : ROTC
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It's all ___ : INTHEGAME
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Has reveries : STARGAZES
5
Appointed lots : KISMETS
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Instigate : INCITE
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About the ear : OTIC
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Pallid : WAN
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___ up : ACT
10
Of the cheek : MALAR
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Gaiters : SPATS
12
Fictional heroine : TESS
15
Quality of sound : TIMBRE
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Remick : LEE
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Heraldic shield border : ORLE
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Ferber : EDNA
25
Along with: Prefix : MET
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Heating device : LAMP
27
Descendant of Mohammed : EMIR
28
Gaseous element : NITON
31
Translation : RENDITION
32
High-strung : EXCITABLE
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Measure with the hand : SPAN
34
African fish : TONG
36
Compulsion: Suffix : SION
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Antelope : IMPALA
40
Antelope : DOE
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Intimidated : DAUNTED
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Loosen : UNDO
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Woolly : LANATE
45
Tragic hero : ROMEO
46
Indian, to cowboy : ENEMY
47
Painting : OIL
49
Theories : ISMS
50
Biblical Syria : ARAM
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Touches : TAGS
52
Christian and Elizabethan : ERAS
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Fixed : SET
55
Altar of the sky : ARA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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