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Henry Hook
Henry Hook

New York Times, Saturday, March 20, 1982

4-Down : Problem between Sam and Ivan

Author:
Henry Hook
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 297 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Henry Hook has 33 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 25 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,820
Across
1
"Well"-financed org. : OPEC
5
It enters like Simba : MARCH
10
Automatic advancement in a tourney : BYE
13
Marquisette : LENO
14
Music featured in "10" : BOLERO
15
Anthony or Eberle : RAY
16
Announcement : DECLARATION
18
Reveal one's humanity : ERR
19
Wield a heavy hammer : SLEDGE
20
Start of a Socratic quotation : ONCEMADE
22
De ___ Clinton : WITT
24
Talk a blue streak : YAK
25
Quotation: Part II : EQUALTOMAN
31
Small vipers : ASPS
34
Barbizon landscape artist : DUPRE
35
Carpet alternative, for short : LINO
36
TV's Maj. Houlihan : SWIT
37
"___ for her eyes ... " : EIS
38
Quotation: Part III : WOMAN
39
Give ___ whirl : ITA
40
Tomorrow's history : NEWS
42
What Mr. Hyde personified : EVIL
43
One of the Alous : MATTY
45
Type of ski turn : STEM
46
Quotation: Part IV : BECOMESHIS
48
"A mouse!" : EEK
50
"___ Date with an Angel" : GOTA
51
End of quotation : SUPERIOR
56
Astronomer's subject : NEBULA
60
Prefix for cure or tome : EPI
61
Opposed to the Constitution : ANTIFEDERAL
63
Back-to-work time: Abbr. : MON
64
" ... a lamp ___ feet" : UNTOMY
65
University site in India : AGRA
66
Mozart's Symphony No. 40 ___ minor : ING
67
Casper's wife in comics : TOOTS
68
World Series winners: 1975-76 : REDS
Down
1
Automotive pioneer : OLDS
2
Eponym of London's bobbies : PEEL
3
Noun suffix : ENCE
4
Problem between Sam and Ivan : COLDWAR
5
Crossword bird : MOA
6
Voice in a loft : ALTO
7
Martingale's relative : REIN
8
"Teary" reptile, for short : CROC
9
Bobby Goldsboro hit: 1968 : HONEY
10
Gives up, as a tradition : BREAKSWITH
11
Almost a meter : YARD
12
Jane of fiction : EYRE
14
He hit .390 in 1980 : BRETT
17
Like Astaire in his heydey : AGILE
21
The Meuse, to the Dutch : MAAS
23
"Easy ___": 1936 song : TOLOVE
25
"Lest we lose our ___": Browning : EDENS
26
Librarian's admonition : QUIET
27
Combing the hair scalpward : UPSWEEPING
28
Parrot : MIMIC
29
Type of computer : ANALOG
30
Ce n'est pas "oui" : NON
32
Noted Florentine palace : PITTI
33
Wears out one's welcome : STAYS
38
Arachnoid "parlor" : WEB
41
Hook henchman : SMEE
43
Dealt out : METED
44
As cross ___ : ASABEAR
47
Cents and pence : MONEY
49
Herb, in Hamburg : KRAUT
51
Tractor trailer : SEMI
52
Informed of : UPON
53
___ uncertain terms : INNO
54
Preminger : OTTO
55
Uprising of a sort : RIOT
57
Inner drive : URGE
58
Greasy stuff : LARD
59
Cry of the sorrowful : ALAS
62
Some radios: Abbr. : FMS

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 3 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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