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Sawikin
Sawikin

New York Times, Tuesday, August 4, 1981

25-Across : They take it all back

Author:
Sawikin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Sawikin has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,592
Across
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H. T. Webster's "The Timid ___" : SOUL
5
Lowest part of a mine : SUMP
9
Peach or Orange : BOWL
13
"___ fan tutte" : COSI
14
Not carrying a gat or shiv : CLEAN
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"Vesti la giubba," e.g. : ARIA
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"They ___ serve ... " : ALSO
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Foolish : INANE
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Fat from hogs : LARD
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Famed American showmen : BARNUMANDBAILEY
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Prefix with pod and plane : TRI
24
The Caribbean, to the Atlantic : ARM
25
They take it all back : RECANTERS
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Hearth, for Henri : ATRE
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Minute particle : ATOM
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___ carte : ALA
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Letter preceding iota : THETA
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Innovation by 20 Across : THREERINGCIRCUS
42
Inheritors : HEIRS
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Colloid : GEL
44
Medical suffix : ITIS
45
Laddie's girl : LASS
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Flexible flier : AERIALIST
48
Balaam's ___ : ASS
50
Having no value : NIL
51
Sondheim's request : SENDINTHECLOWNS
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Region : AREA
61
Actor featured in "Vega$" : URICH
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Mess up : FAIL
63
Confederate hue : GRAY
64
Take a dip : BATHE
65
Unemployed : IDLE
66
Small vipers : ASPS
67
Where to spend a new kip : LAOS
68
___ off (angry) : TEED
Down
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Strikebreaker : SCAB
2
Alley Oop's beloved : OOLA
3
U.S.A. rival : USSR
4
Chair wielders, often : LIONTAMERS
5
Single-edged sword : SCIMITAR
6
Forearm bone : ULNA
7
Average : MEAN
8
Raccoons' kin : PANDAS
9
Denpasar is its capital : BALI
10
Kind of surgery : ORAL
11
Word with high or tight : WIRE
12
Fat ___, sideshow attraction : LADY
15
Univ. at Lincoln : NEBR
21
This turned Keats on : URN
22
Italian violin : AMATI
25
"Jabberwocky" creature : RATH
26
Lucy's TV friend : ETHEL
27
___ del Rio, town near Sevilla : CORIA
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New Haven student : ELI
29
Magnitude : RANGE
31
"The ___ All," 1963 Jewison film : THRILLOFIT
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Straight; right: Comb. form : RECTI
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Small needle cases : ETUIS
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Aide: Abbr. : ASST
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Piece by Montaigne : ESSAI
40
Marx's nat. land : GER
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Boxers' entanglements : CLINCHES
46
Pertaining to the stars : ASTRAL
47
Be unwell : AIL
49
Social slight : SNUB
51
Epic story : SAGA
52
Goes wrong : ERRS
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Kind of tide : NEAP
54
Doris and Dennis : DAYS
55
"A ___ very palpable hit": Shak. : HITA
56
Kind of chamber : ECHO
57
Virginia of tennis fame : WADE
58
World's longest river : NILE
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Rosebud was one in "Citizen Kane" : SLED

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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