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New York Times, Friday, July 16, 1971

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.71, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 86.1 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
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© 1971, The New York TimesNo. 8,007
Across
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Asian antelope : SAIGA
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Increased efforts : SPURTS
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Sport featuring "Touché!" : FENCING
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Ceremonial candelabrum : MENORAH
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Friendship on a high level : ENTENTECORDIALE
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Tree : ASH
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Hot wind : SIROCCO
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Marsh elder : IVA
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Type : SORT
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Protégé of Nicholas Nickleby : SMIKE
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Braid : PLAT
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Old region of Asia Minor : TROAS
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Solution: Abbr. : ANS
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Brownish color : BEIGE
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Ankle injuries : SPRAINS
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Lake near Tahoe : DONNER
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Think : OPINE
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Prompting : CUING
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Certain Burgundies : MACONS
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Oregon river : SANTIAM
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Shotput, for one : EVENT
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Hundredweight: Abbr. : CWT
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Record : ENROL
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Short and long : TONS
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Fetters : IRONS
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Spanish river : EBRO
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Decree : ACT
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Parkas : ANORAKS
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Servicemen's mecca : USO
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Household gods : LARESANDPENATES
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Gas used as fumigant : STIBINE
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Small thorn : SPINULE
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Teacakes : SCONES
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Facing a glacier's path : STOSS
Down
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Photoelectric cells : SENSORS
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Seeing man as focus of the universe : ANTHROPOCENTRIC
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Dick Button's milieu : ICE
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Cotton machines : GINS
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Naysayers : ANTIS
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Outer garments : SMOCKS
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Nez ___ : PERCE
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Loosen : UNDO
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King: Fr. : ROI
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Mayflower : TRAILINGARBUTUS
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Save from fire, etc. : SALVAGE
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Palace event : FEAST
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Pertinent : GERMANE
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Gang word for a pistol : HEATER
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Leks, leva and bahts : COINS
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Large game fish : TARPONS
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Alpine range : PENNINE
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New Orleans pro : SAINT
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Nightclub : BOITE
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Incumbents : INS
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Horse color : DUN
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Short sleeps : CATNAPS
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Silver and copper : METALS
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Lawyers, in France : AVOCATS
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Excalibur, for one : SWORD
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Tidbits : MORSELS
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Beldams : CRONES
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Slack : LOOSE
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Empty : INANE
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Straw beehives : SKEPS
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"It's ___ to tell ... " : ASIN
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In a ___ (upset) : SNIT
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Central American tree : EBO
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Year, in Madrid : ANO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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