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New York Times, Monday, July 24, 1972

6-Down : Faroe winds

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 245 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 29.4 Grid has duplicate clues.
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,381
Across
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Give sparingly : DOLE
5
French painter : COROT
10
Monster : OGRE
14
English river : AVON
15
Bequeath : LEAVE
16
Crucifix : ROOD
17
Ash Wednesday or Easter : LENT
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___ of the Waldorf : OSCAR
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Excited : AGOG
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French painter : INGRES
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Very powerful : ALMIGHTY
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Greek god : ARES
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Term of address : SIRE
27
___ Jerusalem : GOINGTO
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Old French coin : TESTON
34
Declaims : RANTS
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Prescription unit : DOSE
38
Have, in Aberdeen : HAE
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Greek letters : ETAS
40
Secures : NAILS
41
Maid : LASS
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Time period: Abbr. : CEN
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European capital : OSLO
44
French painter : MONET
45
Kind of play : ONEACT
48
"___ in Gaza" : EYELESS
50
Supervise : BOSS
52
Close, in falconry : SEEL
53
Certain street corners : BUSSTOPS
57
Makes suitable : ADAPTS
61
Chip in : ANTE
62
Cotton worker : BALER
64
___ avis : RARA
65
Look over : SCAN
66
Deck : ADORN
67
Kind of race : DRAG
68
Civil wrong : TORT
69
French painter : DEGAS
70
Dotted : SEME
Down
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Spanish painter : DALI
2
Cake's milieu : OVEN
3
Like the way to Tipperary : LONG
4
Contestants : ENTRANTS
5
Place for coats : CLOSET
6
Faroe winds : OES
7
Biblical word of reproach : RACA
8
Egg shapes : OVALS
9
Wood eaters : TERMITES
10
Storms: Fr. : ORAGES
11
Dutch painter, with Van : GOGH
12
Part of a plant : ROOT
13
Irritable : EDGY
21
Units of work : ERGS
23
Anger : IRE
25
Fountain orders : SODAS
27
Spanish painter : GRECO
28
Of a grain : OATEN
29
Silly : INANE
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Scottish title : THANE
32
Fertile places : OASES
33
Snug places : NESTS
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Kind of slick : OIL
37
Wild plums : SLOES
40
Pretty good : NOTSOBAD
41
Followers of John Wycliffe : LOLLARDS
44
Reward, old style : MEED
46
Roll-call notation : ABSENT
47
Tent fixture : COT
49
Longs for : YEARNS
51
Black suit : SPADE
53
Woody fiber : BAST
54
Extremely, in Britain : UNCO
55
Mariner's sighting : STAR
56
Plod : SLOG
58
Decrease : PARE
59
Mine car : TRAM
60
Plant of mint family : SAGE
63
Period : ERA

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

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