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James
James
Phyllis Barrick
Phyllis Barrick

HELLENIC

New York Times, Sunday, January 29, 1978

Author:
James & Phyllis Barrick
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 166, Blocks: 88, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 662 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 138, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 42.0
David Steinberg notes:

Possible error in 52-Across clue — Atalante does not seem to be an arm of the Aegean Sea, though the Atalante basin may be a "very salty 'lake' at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea," according to Wikipedia.

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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,396
Across
1
Miami's county : DADE
5
Fit : APT
8
Macadamized : PAVED
13
Short snort : NIP
16
Poker prize : POT
19
Writer Paton : ALAN
20
___ bono : CUI
21
Happen : BETIDE
22
Biological subdivision : ECOTYPE
24
Reading desks : LECTERNS
26
Personality disorder : ELECTRACOMPLEX
28
Like some dividends : ACCRUED
29
Declaims wildly : RAVES
30
Diamond calls : OUTS
31
Lear's faithful follower : KENT
32
Stern or Singer : ISAAC
33
Man from Meshed : IRANI
35
One of the Graces : AGLAIA
37
Nonerotic relationship : PLATONICAFFAIR
41
Swelter : ROAST
46
Sic ___ : PASSIM
49
Gee-tar's cousin : UKE
50
Hounds : BAITS
51
___ franca : LINGUA
52
Atalante, to the Aegean : ARM
53
Pub game : DARTS
55
Art category : GENRE
56
Trig functions : COSINES
57
___ Paulo : SAO
58
German article : EINE
59
Two-winged fly : MIDGE
60
Ink drinkers : BLOTTERS
61
Losers to Agamemnon : TROJANS
63
Conjunction : NOR
64
A daughter of Mnemosyne : ERATO
65
Compass heading : SSE
66
Boccaccio's "The ___ Heart" : EATEN
67
Kids' dads : GOATS
69
Uprights : SPINETS
71
Part of a Poe poem : THEGLORYTHATWASGREECE
77
Showy blossoms : PEONIES
78
Fissure : CRACK
79
Hawaii's state flower : LEHUA
81
Part of a Euripides opus : ACT
84
Hot spots : OVENS
85
A.F.B. in Colorado : ENT
86
Aegean activity : SAILING
88
Visionaries : DREAMERS
90
Grim Greek god : HADES
93
Where Greeks were enslaved : ROMA
94
Racket : DIN
95
Terpsichorean group : DANCERS
96
Breastplate of Zeus or Athena : AEGIS
97
Composer of "The Rosary" : NEVIN
98
French coin: 1929–38 : ECU
99
Grist for Homer's mill : EVENTS
100
Alarm : SCARE
101
___ rosa : SUB
102
Playground equipment : SLIDES
104
Inhibit : DETER
105
Certain series of questions : SOCRATICMETHOD
108
Vociferated : YELLED
110
Iphigenia, to Menelaus : NIECE
111
Painting material : GESSO
115
S.A. rodent : PACA
119
Uris or Trotsky : LEON
120
Of a grain : OATEN
122
Flew : AVIATED
124
Hamstring : ACHILLESTENDON
127
Tensible : TRACTILE
128
Benchley opus : THEDEEP
129
Range : EXTENT
130
Scamper : RUN
131
Roper : ELMO
132
Baste : SEW
133
One or another : ANY
134
Outlaw of fiction : DOONE
135
Gelada or pongo : APE
136
O'Casey or O'Kelly : SEAN
Down
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___ Lama : DALAI
2
Templeton and Guinness : ALECS
3
Capital of Bangladesh : DACCA
4
Snares : ENTRAPS
5
Parcel of land : ACRE
6
Nestorian type : PUNDIT
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"___ the season ... " : TIS
8
Kind of girdle : PELVIC
9
To ___ (on the nose) : ATEE
10
Damone and Morrow : VICS
11
Timetable abbr. : EDT
12
Belittle : DEROGATE
13
Olympian quaff : NECTAR
14
Twenty: Comb. form : ICOSI
15
Lap dog, for short : POM
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Author of "Men of Iron" : PYLE
17
Do what Pandora did : OPEN
18
Item in a schoolbag : TEXT
21
Skullcap : BEANIE
23
Toll road: Abbr. : TPK
25
Trig prerequisite, often : EUCLIDEANGEOMETRY
27
Where Agamemnon embarked : AULIS
29
Lines of hoplites : RANKS
34
Way described in the "Anabasis" : ROUTE
35
Like Troy when the Greeks won : AFIRE
36
Method of reasoning : ARISTOTELIANLOGIC
38
With full force : AMAIN
39
Under covers : ABED
40
Tooth : FANG
42
Step ___ (hie) : ONIT
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A De Mille : AGNES
44
Litigants : SUERS
45
Armor part : TASSE
46
Fatty dough : PASTE
47
Historic landfall : ARARAT
48
Glabrous : SMOOTH
51
Blackout thief : LOOTER
54
Medical personnel: Abbr. : RNS
55
Circumference : GIRTH
56
Alarm-bell sound : CLANG
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Watery trenches : MOATS
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Peppy : BRISK
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Vehicle for Patton : JEEP
63
"Drake" is his epic poem : NOYES
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Solar-year excess : EPACT
67
Beams : GRINS
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Micmac's relative : SAC
69
Pens and cobs : SWANS
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Blind, as a hawk : SEEL
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Hero and Leander : LOVERS
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Lollapaloozas : ONERS
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Dryads' homes : TREES
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Reproved : CHIDED
76
Mrs. Shriver : EUNICE
80
___ Dei : AGNUS
81
Made calculations : ADDED
82
Have a yen for : CRAVE
83
Principle : TENET
86
Soho coin, for short : SOV
87
Mennonite sect : AMISH
89
Teen-ager's problem : ACNE
90
Got wind of : HEARD
91
Noted mausoleum site : AGRA
92
Regimen : DIET
93
Old stringed instrument : REBEC
96
Emphasized : ACCENTED
97
Local deity : NUMEN
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Goes it alone : SOLOS
101
Knowing : SCIENT
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Has thoughts : IDEATES
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Ready for Morpheus : SLEEPY
106
Chant : INTONE
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Shred : TEARUP
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Soprano Shade of the Met : ELLEN
112
Set of steps : STILE
113
Southern city : SELMA
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Famed Parisian theater : ODEON
115
Hingle and Boone : PATS
116
Smart : ACHE
117
Munch : CHEW
118
Lend a hand : AID
120
Not fooled by : ONTO
121
Arabian seaport : ADEN
123
Weathercock : VANE
125
Grassland : LEA
126
Outer: Comb. form : EXO
127
Refrain syllable : TRA

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 6 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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