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New York Times, Monday, June 1, 1970

47-Down : Fruit-salad items

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 5, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 101.8
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© 1970, The New York TimesNo. 7,597
Across
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Smooth : SATIN
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Perceive : ESPY
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Agile : SPRY
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Byzantine empress : IRENE
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Greater : MORE
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Vegetables : PEAS
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Holiday dessert : GINGERBREADCAKE
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Swindled: Slang : HAD
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Recital numbers : DUETS
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Book-cover worker : LACER
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Fisherman : EELER
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Kind of stew or coffee : IRISH
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Sec. of State under D.D.E. : HERTER
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Secret writing: Abbr. : CDE
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Prepare fruit : PIT
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Reference book : ATLAS
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Sportswear cloth : CHINO
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Daughter of Cadmus : INO
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Staff of life : WHOLEWHEATBREAD
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Six in Napoli : SEI
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Fish : TRAWL
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Tia ___ : JUANA
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Sea eagle : ERN
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Vetch : ERS
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Potpourri : MEDLEY
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Thorny : SPINY
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___-tête : TETEA
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English imposter : OATES
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Unamused : BORED
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Eleventh-century date : MVI
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Tasty side dish : CREAMEDPOTATOES
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Kind of drop : TEAR
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Capital of the Ukraine : KIEV
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Sculptor : RODIN
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Trees : OAKS
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Anglo Saxon laborer : ESNE
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Nottingham's river : TRENT
Down
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Sound of sorrow : SIGH
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Operatic solo : ARIA
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Restaurant offering : TENDERLOINSTEAK
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Common suffix : ING
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Etui contents : NEEDLESET
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Hot coal : EMBER
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Classify : SORT
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Having a garrison : PRESIDIAL
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Affirmative vote : YEA
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Units of a humane group: Abbr. : SPCAS
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Something yummy : PEACHPIEALAMODE
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Garden implement : RAKE
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European river : YSER
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Disappointed one : RUER
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Roman 551 : DLI
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Common Latin notation : ETAL
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Lease : RENT
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Part of a ship's bow : HAWSE
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Anesthetic : ETHER
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Works on caramels : CHEWS
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Pointless : INANE
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Perennial TV show : TODAY
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Whirlpool off Sicily : CHARYBDIS
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Salon décor : OBJETDART
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Small bird : WREN
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Elementary : RUDE
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Join : MEET
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Fruit-salad items : PEARS
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Theory : ISM
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Treasure ___ : TROVE
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Numerical prefix : OCTO
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Vicinity : AREA
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On view : OPEN
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Coal seam : VEIN
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Common contraction : ISNT
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Make do, with "out" : EKE
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Peak : TOR

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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