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Samuel H. Barkan
Samuel H. Barkan

New York Times, Monday, January 25, 1982

Author:
Samuel H. Barkan
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 245 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 27.0
Samuel H. Barkan has 8 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,766
Across
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One of three in a fountain : COIN
5
Likely : APT
8
Bucephalus, e.g. : STEED
13
___ time (never) : ATNO
14
Famed fiddler : NERO
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As of this date : TODAY
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Illegal claimant to a throne : PRETENDER
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Della or Pee Wee : REESE
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Cry convulsively : SOB
21
Regret : RUE
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L. Jolley of race-track fame, e.g. : TRAINER
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Stirs up : ROILS
26
Tavern : INN
27
Synopsis : DIGEST
28
Cloth for making sacks : BAGGING
32
Sights in Scotland : BRAES
33
French river : RHONE
35
___ Zedong : MAO
36
Mechanical repetition : ROTE
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Beanstalk character : GIANT
38
Gyrate : SPIN
39
French soul : AME
40
Pinter's forte : DRAMA
41
Fur piece : STOLE
42
Congressional period : SESSION
44
"The Valachi ___" : PAPERS
46
Ingredients for Nero's omelet : OVA
47
Type of dress : PRINT
48
Villages : HAMLETS
52
Subject of a Camus essay : ETE
53
Calligraphy, for one : ART
56
Inventor Howe : ELIAS
57
Against the working class : ANTILABOR
60
Defraud : MULCT
61
Baseball's Speaker : TRIS
62
Lupin's need : CLUE
63
Pintail ducks : SMEES
64
Abbr. on an envelope : ATT
65
Where a chapeau goes : TETE
Down
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Closes up, as an oil well : CAPS
2
Other, in Málaga : OTRO
3
Some skid-row denizens : INEBRIATES
4
"Swear ___ by the moon": Juliet : NOT
5
Voids legally : ANNULS
6
Prosaic : PEDESTRIAN
7
Due follower : TRE
8
Unfamiliar : STRANGE
9
Activity at the mark : TOEING
10
Nod's western neighbor : EDEN
11
Vacationer's delight : EASE
12
He wrote "Pulling Your Own Strings" : DYER
15
Women's service org. : ORT
18
Extinct Ohio-N.Y. group : ERIES
23
Mirthful : RIANT
25
Molding : OGEE
27
Suffix with motor : DROME
28
French toast : BONAPPETIT
29
Allowed to come in, as foreign products : IMPORTABLE
30
Hard as ___ : NAILS
31
Auctioneer's last word : GONE
32
Parts of bikinis : BRAS
34
Noah's second son : HAM
37
Trifling sum : GROAT
38
British carbine : STEN
40
Gets rid of : DIVESTS
41
Barker's pitch : SPIEL
43
Consolation : SOLACE
45
Rembrandt, for one : ARTIST
48
Some are high; some are low : HEMS
49
Astringent : ALUM
50
320 rods : MILE
51
One of seven: Abbr. : SAT
54
A 75-0 football score, e.g. : ROUT
55
Family or shoe follower : TREE
58
Hunter's org. : NRA
59
Bill's possible future : ACT

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

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