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Sawikin
Sawikin

New York Times, Tuesday, June 14, 1983

16-Across : Poet Conrad ___

Author:
Sawikin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q Y }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Sawikin has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,271
Across
1
Bivouac : CAMP
5
Rakes; womanizers : CADS
9
Man on a $10,000 bill : CHASE
14
Settled : OVER
15
Zayak move : AXEL
16
Poet Conrad ___ : AIKEN
17
Sweet drink : SODA
18
Do the work of many a clerk : FILE
19
Shoe attachment for Winfield : CLEAT
20
Hawthorne classic : TWICETOLDTALES
23
Colliery conveyance : TRAM
24
Garden implement : HOE
25
Von Stroheim command : ACTION
28
Famed architect : PEI
30
Hindu musical form : RAGA
34
Respond to a stimulus : REACT
35
Alden, to Mullens : LOVER
37
Chem. room : LAB
38
Hardly ever : ONCEINALIFETIME
41
Took nourishment : ATE
42
Shade of red : CORAL
43
Corruptible : VENAL
44
Roster : ROTA
46
Item for a skiff : OAR
47
Mother of Dionysus : SEMELE
48
Mr. and McMahon : EDS
50
Barter : SWAP
51
Type of recidivist : THREETIMELOSER
58
U.C.L.A. player : BRUIN
59
" ... how like ___": Hamlet : AGOD
60
Level : RAZE
61
Breadfruit of Luzon : RIMAS
62
Jab : POKE
63
Former Met star : AGEE
64
Sufficient : AMPLE
65
Gun or actress : STEN
66
Prank : LARK
Down
1
Expenditure : COST
2
Say it is so : AVOW
3
Middle: Prefix : MEDI
4
Source of perfection : PRACTICE
5
Levantine garment : CAFTAN
6
Postulate : AXIOM
7
Small valley : DELL
8
Luge, e.g. : SLED
9
Tree whence chocolate comes : CACAO
10
Dame Wendy or Arthur : HILLER
11
African tree : AKEE
12
Seven ___ : SEAS
13
Suffix with persist : ENT
21
Amatory : EROTIC
22
He has taking ways : THIEF
25
Like crashing waves : AROAR
26
Int. group after the Baghdad Pact : CENTO
27
Musical direction : TACET
28
Kind of bear : POLAR
29
Satan's delight : EVIL
31
Make true : ALINE
32
___Abdel Nasser : GAMAL
33
White poplar : ABELE
35
"Granada" songwriter : LARA
36
Bare : REVEAL
39
Snare : NOOSE
40
Evanescent : TEMPORAL
45
Antenna : AERIAL
47
Strindberg's land : SWEDEN
49
Like a blockhead : DENSE
50
Offend a misocapnist : SMOKE
51
Fit : TRIM
52
Dromedary feature : HUMP
53
"Lights out" signal : TAPS
54
"___ Rhythm" : IGOT
55
Norse tale : SAGA
56
Weizman of Israel : EZER
57
Emit fumes : REEK
58
Bikini part : BRA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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