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New York Times, Friday, September 21, 1973

10-Down : "Came the dawn," e.g.

Author:
Unknown
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 27.5
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© 1973, The New York TimesNo. 8,805
Across
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Knack : HANG
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Vacillate : WAVER
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Remainder, of a kind : STUB
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Friend, in Nancy : AMIE
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Salad item : OLIVE
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___ Major : URSA
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Quick : FAST
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___ up the flagpole : RUNIT
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Kind of garden : BEER
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Start of familiar poem, with 25 and 45 Across : THISISMYLETTER
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Pretend : ACT
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First-century date : LII
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More of poem : TOTHEWORLDTHAT
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Injure : MAR
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Callas, for one : DIVA
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Something to remember : ALAMO
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Ship's deck : ORLOP
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Cry : SOB
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Playwright Jones : LEROI
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Make up for : ATONE
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Biblical land : ELAM
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Wing : ELL
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End of poem : NEVERWROTETOME
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Knighted one : SIR
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Audience : EAR
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Author of 20 Across : EMILYDICKINSON
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Unfarmable : ARID
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Haunting : EERIE
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Vapor: Prefix : ATMO
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___ up (estimate) : SIZE
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Wood pieces : SLATS
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Even : TIED
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Mind : HEED
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Belief : TENET
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Coast flyer : ERNE
Down
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Handle : HAFT
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Indian servant : AMAH
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" ... nil ___ bonum" : NISI
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Reaches : GETSAT
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Suit material : WORSTED
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Astringent : ALUM
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Like a grapeyard : VINY
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Black-hearted : EVIL
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Repeat : RETELL
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"Came the dawn," e.g. : SUBTITLE
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Coat or shoe : TREE
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Customer : USER
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Ingot : BAR
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German pronoun : ICH
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___ wave : TIDAL
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French pastry : TARTE
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Russian noble family : ORLOV
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Cannier : WISER
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Rounded molding : OVOLO
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Morocco's capital : RABAT
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Seraglio : HAREM
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Soap substitute : AMOLE
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Labor : TOIL
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Groan's partner : MOAN
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Unfair : ONESIDED
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Jeopardy : PERIL
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Most mousy : MEEKEST
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Most perverse : WRYEST
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Japanese porgy : TAI
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Rococo : ORNATE
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Penn. city : ERIE
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Baseball's Johnny : MIZE
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Edit out : DELE
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Mideast country : IRAN
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Point out : CITE
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Recipe word : STIR
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Portent : OMEN
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Orbital point : NODE
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Tree : ASH

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

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