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New York Times, Saturday, August 8, 1964

51-Down : C'est ___ (that is to say).

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 83, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 64.5
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© 1964, The New York TimesNo. 5,487
Across
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Trenchant. : EDGED
6
Road: Ger. : BAHN
10
Servant, typically Chinese. : AMAH
14
1869 heroine. : LORNA
15
American author. : AGEE
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Whimper. : PULE
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Basic food. : BREAD
18
Features of Siberia. : SALTMINES
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1929 novel. : AFAREWELLTOARMS
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Mexican native. : TECO
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Shade of red. : OLDROSE
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Neophyte of a sort. : CUB
26
___ la la! : OOH
28
Arnaz. : DESI
29
Parts of graphs. : AXES
31
___ a turn. : DOTO
33
Fiddlesticks! : PSHAW
37
Shampoo ingredient. : SOAP
38
Terrific! : SWELL
40
Period. : TIME
41
City near Lille. : ARRAS
43
6th cen. date. : DXLI
44
Barrie role. : SMEE
45
Torpid. : LOGY
47
In addition. : YET
49
Query. : ASK
50
Spotted. : DAPPLED
53
End. : GOAL
55
Work attributed to Beethoven. : ADIEUTOTHEPIANO
60
Place to buy pans, pens, pins, etc. : DIMESTORE
61
Busybody. : PRYER
62
Isle, part of County Donegal. : ARAN
63
River in 13 Down. : EDER
64
Set out. : LEAVE
65
City on the Yonne. : SENS
66
Some gypsies. : RYES
67
Mrs. Stengel and others. : EDNAS
Down
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Corsica's neighbor. : ELBA
2
Village: Ger. : DORF
3
Constellation. : GREATBEAR
4
Finnish lake. : ENARE
5
Site of Miami, Fla. : DADECO
6
Not precious. : BASE
7
" ... a peculiar sort of ___." : AGAL
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Popular tune. : HELLODOLLY
9
Prickly plant. : NETTLE
10
Men in the honey game. : APIARISTS
11
Humorist Leaf. : MUNRO
12
Turkish flags. : ALEMS
13
Part of West Germany. : HESSE
19
Present-day orthography: Abbr. : MODSP
21
Thicket. : WOODS
24
Relative of a maison. : CASA
25
Caesar's wife. : UXOR
27
Pioneer TV show. : HOWDYDOODY
30
Irish rascals. : SPALPEENS
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Nickname for a man from Austin. : TEX
34
Of an Asian region. : HIMALAYAN
35
Midwest college town. : AMES
36
One of 52. : WEEK
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Faithful. : LIEGE
42
Alone on the stage. : SOLUS
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Go-___. : GETTER
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Tumble down. : TOPPLE
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Baby words. : DADAS
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C'est ___ (that is to say). : ADIRE
52
Of an Arizonan people. : PIMAN
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Broadcast. : AIRED
56
Plum or peach. : TREE
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Pronoun. : HERS
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River to the Gulf of Finland. : NEVA
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Assayer's concern. : ORES

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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