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Allan Blackman
Allan Blackman

New York Times, Saturday, March 20, 1976

29-Down : Crowbar

Author:
Allan Blackman
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Allan Blackman has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,716
Across
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Metal beam : TBAR
5
"The Wreck of the Mary ___" : DEARE
10
Contend with : COPE
14
Between theta and kappa : IOTA
15
Writer Horatio : ALGER
16
Eye: Prefix : OCUL
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Famous group of ten : THEBILLOFRIGHTS
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State: Abbr. : ORE
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Movies' Ma Kettle : MAIN
22
Discontinue : CEASE
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Droops : SAGS
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Ribbon: Prefix : TAEN
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Eucharistic plates : PATENS
29
Envoys : LEGATES
32
Resembling: Suffix : ULAR
33
Writer Lafcadio : HEARN
34
Mil. address : APO
36
Landmark case : MARBURYVMADISON
40
Cast ___ vote (oppose) : ANO
41
Stem joints : NODES
42
Parched : SERE
43
Speak in a way : STUTTER
45
Fortune or bank : TELLER
47
Island off Sumatra : NIAS
48
Sarazen : GENE
49
Demean : ABASE
52
Salvation or Coxey's : ARMY
53
Scarf : BOA
56
One of nine : MRJUSTICEPOWELL
60
Diamond shape : PEAR
61
Of a space : AREAL
62
Genesis name : ABEL
63
___ Coburg : SAXE
64
Discernment : TASTE
65
Lily of West : SEGO
Down
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Broz : TITO
2
Physicist Niels : BOHR
3
Suit to ___ : ATEE
4
Mortar beater : RAB
5
Fish of P.I. : DALAGS
6
Havelock ___ : ELLIS
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Literary struggle : AGON
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Arbiter : REF
9
Sin : ERR
10
Convincing : COGENT
11
Turkish weight : OCHA
12
Calls' cousins : PUTS
13
Or ___ : ELSE
18
"___ old cow hand ... " : IMAN
19
___ snow : ICEAND
23
Balkan native : SERB
24
Mets and Nets : TEAMS
25
Taj Mahal locale : AGRA
26
Cougar : PUMA
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Page and King : ALANS
28
Mystic card : TAROT
29
Crowbar : LEVER
30
Studio piece : EASEL
31
Germ cell : SPORE
33
Jekyll's alter ego et al. : HYDES
35
Exceptional person : ONER
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Loosens : UNTIES
38
Church court : ROTA
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___ of Wight : ISLE
44
Hesitant : UNSURE
45
___ of Artemis : TEMPLE
46
Greek war goddess : ENYO
48
Dane or Divide : GREAT
49
Elec. units : AMPS
50
Town near L.A. : BREA
51
Trojan-War figure : AJAX
52
Honor cards : ACES
53
Rebozo : BEBE
54
Cassini : OLEG
55
Brisk, in music: Abbr. : ALLO
57
Swap for tit : TAT
58
Gershwin : IRA
59
"There ___ an old ... " : WAS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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