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New York Times, Friday, August 13, 1965

1-Down : As meek as ___.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 329 (avg 1.76)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 26.2
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© 1965, The New York TimesNo. 5,857
Across
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Letters. : ABCS
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Ancient bard. : SCOP
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Watch part. : STEM
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Decoy. : LURE
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Muddle: Slang. : SNAFU
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Slime. : OOZE
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State: Abbr. : ARIZ
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Old playing card. : TAROT
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Roll up. : FURL
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Feminine title. : MRS
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Governor. : REGENT
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School: Abbr. : ACAD
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Nursery rhyme character. : BOPEEP
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Go over. : REHASH
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Debatable. : MOOT
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Concert item: Abbr. : SEL
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Kind of blanket. : WET
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Yearn. : ACHE
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Lucky number in Rome. : VII
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What "amamus" means. : WELOVE
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Unpopular story. : THIRTEENTHFLOOR
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Hungarian. : MAGYAR
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Ape of India. : KRA
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British colony. : ADEN
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Quiet! : SSH
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Year in the Middle Ages. : MCC
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Caliph. : IMAM
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Mock. : JEERAT
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Grassland. : MEADOW
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Surrounded by. : AMID
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Marshals. : ARRAYS
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Vive le ___! : ROI
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Big. : LONG
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Mild cigar. : CLARO
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Horn sound. : TOOT
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Kind of warm. : LUKE
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Reginald De ___. : KOVEN
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Keyway. : SLOT
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Meeting: Abbr. : SESS
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Marie and others: Abbr. : STES
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Frolic. : PLOY
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As meek as ___. : ALAMB
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Beast of burden. : BURRO
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Friable. : CRISP
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"___ you?" : SEZ
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Catch. : SNAG
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Solicitous one. : CARER
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"A Room ___ Own." : OFONES
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Lounges. : SOFAS
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Punk. : TOUCHWOOD
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Book of the Bible. : EZRA
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Rummy score. : MELD
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Sidewalk maneuver for the superstitious. : STEPOVERCRACKS
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Oldtime auto. : REO
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Corundum. : EMERY
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Hebrew letter. : ALEF
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Item of the old school. : TIE
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Cry of revelry. : EVOE
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Sea swallow. : TERN
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Gaseous masses: Abbr. : ATMS
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Addams. : CHAS
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Horseplay. : HIGHJINKS
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Pen's pal. : INK
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Animal akin to a guanaco. : LLAMA
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Unexciting. : TAME
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Prefix with color or corn. : TRI
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Freight unit. : CARLOT
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One of the Stevensons. : AES
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Fringes. : EDGES
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Crossbeam. : TRAVE
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Quaintly amusing. : DROLL
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Goose eggs. : OOOOO
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Cleverly amusing. : WITTY
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___ well! : ALLS
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Grimace. : MOUE
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Mars. : ARES
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Recipe abbreviation. : TSP

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

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