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New York Times, Friday, July 19, 1963

9-Across : Garden pest.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { B F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11, Grid flow: 28.6
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© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 5,101
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Star: Prefix. : ASTRO
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Pronoun. : HIS
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Garden pest. : APHIS
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Symbol of the 1920's. : SPEAKEASY
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Crunching sound. : CRUMP
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TV phenomenon. : TALKATHON
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Mortar made of sand and cement. : COMPO
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Not employed. : IDLE
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Manage. : HANDLE
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Period. : DOT
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Argue logically. : REASON
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Projecting part of a building. : APSIS
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Portions of land. : LOTS
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Unusual feats: Colloq. : STUNTS
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Chants in a certain cadence. : SINGSONGS
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Full of intense interest. : AGOG
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___ vincit amor. : OMNIA
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Mauna ___. : LOA
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Turn outward. : EVERT
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Layman. : LAIC
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Whisperers. : MURMURERS
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Lovelace's lady. : ALTHEA
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Noticeable trace. : TANG
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Mortgages. : LIENS
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Surface decoration of colored marble. : MOSAIC
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___ loss. : ATA
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Words in a Hemingway title. : THESEA
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American cartoonist. : ARNO
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Ragout of roasted game. : SALMI
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A reprimand. : TALKINGTO
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___ ease. : ILLAT
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Belittled. : CRIEDDOWN
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Of great height: Poet. : SKYEY
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Possesses. : HAS
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These: Sp. : ESTOS
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In a state of activity. : ASTIR
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Garden tool. : SPADE
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"I can't ___ lie." : TELLA
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Slopes. : RAKES
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Weight in Turkey. : OKA
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Sound of laughter. : HAHA
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"When the frost ___ the punkin ... " : ISON
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Newspaper chain: Abbr. : SYND
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Receive favorably. : ACCEPT
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Favorable. : PRO
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Jim-dandy. : HUMDINGER
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Mountebanks. : IMPOSTORS
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Recognize: Colloq. : SPOT
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Kindred group. : ETHNOS
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Young woman. : LASS
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Russian girl's name. : OLGA
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Blandly pleasing. : SUAVE
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Colombian balsam. : TOLU
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Laugh loudly. : SNORT
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Army man: Abbr. : SGT
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Chitchat. : SMALLTALK
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At the beginning. : INITIALLY
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Recess in a wall. : NICHE
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Vasco da ___. : GAMA
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Wave: sp. : OLA
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Therefore. : ERGO
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Feed mixture. : MASH
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Destroy. : UNMAKE
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Being. : ENTITY
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Beaches. : SANDS
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Conventional slang of a group. : ARGOT
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Asunder. : INTWO
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Tree-dwelling mammals. : COONS
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In its present condition. : ASIS
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Produce designs on metal. : ETCH
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Girl's name. : SARA
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Ivy Leaguers. : ELIS
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One of the Wests. : MAE
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Chemical suffix. : IDE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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