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John M. Samson
John M. Samson

New York Times, Wednesday, November 2, 1983

Author:
John M. Samson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 43, Avg Word Len: 5.20, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 47.3
John M. Samson has 49 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,412
Across
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Reserved : DEMURE
7
Spectrum makers : PRISMS
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Jubilant : ELATED
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Tire type : RADIAL
15
Fruit with a dark red pulp : MALTESEORANGE
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Emceed : HOSTED
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___ rule (usually) : ASA
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Cattle, to Cowper : KINE
21
Register : ENTER
22
Historic period : ERA
23
Fifties org. in charge of air-raid shelters : CDA
24
Journalist Jacob : RIIS
25
Kind of boom : SONIC
27
West and Murray : MAES
28
Approves : ACCEPTS
30
Light-Horse Harry's chargers : CAVALRY
32
Ossie's Ruby : DEE
33
___ de mer : MAL
34
Was hostile to : OPPOSED
38
Cream-puff filling : CUSTARD
42
Town : BURG
43
Makes a novena : PRAYS
45
Follower of Luther: 1511–69 : EBER
46
___ du Diable : ILE
47
Limit : END
48
Honshu volcanic mount : ASAMA
49
Actress Raines : ELLA
51
He ran against T.E.D. : HST
52
Like some Harvard students : PRELAW
53
Statuette Spade searched for : MALTESEFALCON
56
Array : ATTIRE
57
"The ___ Only," 1978 Winkler movie : ONEAND
58
More deft : NEATER
59
Deeds in Dijon : GESTES
Down
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Fiendish : DEMONIC
2
Flexible : ELASTIC
3
Toy-spaniel variety : MALTESEDOG
4
Pronounce : UTTER
5
Clarinet : REED
6
Ames and Asner : EDS
7
Dull : PROSAIC
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___ avis : RARA
9
Dactyls' mother : IDA
10
Kitchen sight : SINK
11
Like Henning : MAGICAL
12
Like Twiggy : SLENDER
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Deserve : EARN
17
Goddess of marriage : HERA
20
Simple : EASY
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Plato's Aurora : EOS
25
Exorbitant : STEEP
26
French Nobelist novelist : CAMUS
27
Bluish-gray feline : MALTESECAT
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Foot, to a zoologist : PES
31
Anatomical duct : VAS
34
Tony's cousin : OBIE
35
Sleeping car : PULLMAN
36
Bishop, e.g. : PRELATE
37
Bureau : DRESSER
38
Charisse : CYD
39
Mother-of-pearl "mother" : ABALONE
40
Sends back : REMANDS
41
Attract a crowd : DRAW
44
___ meridiem : ANTE
48
City on the Rhone : ARLES
50
Edmonton loc. : ALTA
51
Hither : HERE
52
Glass for a French door : PANE
54
___ for tat : TIT
55
San Francisco sight, often : FOG

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

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