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Mel Rosen
Mel Rosen

New York Times, Thursday, June 18, 1981

57-Across : O. Henry's gift-givers

Author:
Mel Rosen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Mel Rosen has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 14 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,545
Across
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Of bees : APIAN
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Hand or cable followers : CARS
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Ruth's sultanate : SWAT
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Numbers game : LOTTO
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Fruity quaffs : ADES
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Dasheen : TARO
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Kind of jury : PETIT
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Got out of the way : MOVEDOVER
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Places visited briefly : STOPOVERS
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"___ a customer" : ONETO
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Congo river : UELE
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Gotlanders : SWEDES
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Ten-point types : ELITES
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Half a sweet thing : BON
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Amanuenses of today : STENOS
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Pay out : DISBURSE
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Cudgel : STAFF
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Jokester : WAG
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Western Samoan island : UPOLU
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Pauline and Nancy Drew : HEROINES
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Fictional Yalie : STOVER
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Nursery-rhyme vessel : TUB
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Examined carefully : CONNED
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Brass and bronze : ALLOYS
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River to Cairo : OHIO
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Collect, as money : RAISE
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Implications : OVERTONES
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Introductions : OVERTURES
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Speak like Stephen Douglas : ORATE
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O. Henry's gift-givers : MAGI
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Trading center : MART
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Bond or bind : UNITE
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One of the Waughs : ALEC
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"The Mousetrap," for one : PLAY
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Of bodily tissue : TELAR
Down
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The Cottians, e.g. : ALPS
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Plath was one : POET
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"Tell ___ Sweeney!" : ITTO
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On the qui vive : ATIP
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With "We're," last-place team's expression in June : NOTOUTOFITYET
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Caissons : CAMELS
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Worship : ADORE
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Guns a motor : REVS
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Dir. from Bismarck to Wichita : SSE
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Item used in curling : STONE
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Marcelled : WAVED
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Mountain spur : ARETE
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What picadors pick on : TOROS
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See 5 Down : DOWNBUTNOTOUT
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Letters for echelons : VEES
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Call for help : SOS
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Suffix for cigar : ETTE
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Regan's father : LEAR
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Dope : INFO
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Word with Ben or Ten : BIG
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Librarian's warning : SSH
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Omsk O.K.'s : DAS
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"Climb ___ my knee ... " : UPON
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Divagate : ROVE
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Winter vehicle : SLED
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Cont. east of N.A. : EUR
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Network : WEB
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Greek letters : NUS
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Evening in Evian : SOIR
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Arrogant; conceited : CHESTY
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Kitchen lure : AROMA
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French politician executed for treason: 1945 : LAVAL
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Sovereign or vassal : LIEGE
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Courtier whom Hamlet calls a water-fly : OSRIC
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___ barrel (in trouble) : OVERA
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Spoken : ORAL
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River in Normandy : ORNE
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Fastener : NAIL
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Miss Kett : ETTA
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Expert in cryptesthesia : SEER
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Grid official : UMP

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

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