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James Barrick
James Barrick

New York Times, Saturday, September 7, 1985

44-Across : Pardon, in a way

Author:
James Barrick
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
James Barrick has 13 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,087
Across
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Clyde Barrow or Bonnie Parker : LAWBREAKER
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Dabs : PATS
15
Goof photographically : OVEREXPOSE
16
Yegg's cache : LOOT
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Willful : DELIBERATE
18
A first name in folk music : ARLO
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A first name in fiction : ERLE
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G tone : SOL
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Old World plant : LENTIL
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Vast region south of Eur. : AFR
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Something for baby : PAP
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Furlough : LEAVE
28
Further : AID
30
Like some leaf edges : EROSE
32
Scott heroine : ELLEN
33
Goes hungry : STARVES
35
Remote telecast : NEMO
37
What Ali did to Foreman: 1974 : KAYOED
38
Three-legged stand : TEAPOY
42
Church publication : ORDO
44
Pardon, in a way : CONDONE
45
Quiets : CALMS
48
Kind of bag : SCENT
50
Soft : LOW
51
Chameleon's cousin : AGAMA
52
River in Poland : SAN
53
___ Lanka : SRI
55
Ethiopian's neighbor : SOMALI
57
Peaks: Abbr. : MTS
59
What aquafortists do : ETCH
62
Weight allowance : TRET
63
Teacher's fiat re spelling proper nouns : CAPITALIZE
66
Naturalness : EASE
67
Promoting unity : ECUMENICAL
68
Hardens : SETS
69
Acoustical devices : RESONATORS
Down
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Underground vein : LODE
2
Say it and mean it : AVER
3
Sorrowful cry : WELLADAY
4
Inform : BRIEF
5
Johnny ___ : REB
6
What Bex and Dax have in common : EXES
7
Relevant : APROPOS
8
Aussie cuties : KOALAS
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Es follower : EST
10
Set of blades on a mower : REEL
11
Quantity of freight : PLANELOAD
12
Of a body part : AORTAL
13
"I Want ___!," 1958 Susan Hayward film : TOLIVE
14
Hot : STOLEN
22
A B C's : ELEMENTS
24
Undoing : REVERSAL
26
Swan or hutch : PEN
28
Call on : ASK
29
Philippine people : ITA
31
Salmon's spawning area : REDD
34
Some dorm occupants : ROOMMATES
36
School founded by Henry VI : ETON
39
He gets plums : POLITICO
40
Burro: Comb. form : ONO
41
Wood used for archers' bows : YEW
43
C.I.A. forerunner : OSS
44
Coin of small value : CENTIMO
45
Classes : CASTES
46
Ancient assemblies : AGORAE
47
Least plausible : LAMEST
49
Grassy area : CAMPUS
54
Kindled anew : RELIT
56
Pastry chef's helper : ICER
58
Gun or actress : STEN
60
Slavic sovereign : CZAR
61
Copters : HELS
64
Wilander coup : ACE
65
Backward: Prefix : ANA

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

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