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Henry Hook
Henry Hook

New York Times, Saturday, March 20, 1982

49-Down : Herb, in Hamburg

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, Grid flow: 39.7
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
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"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
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Wield a heavy hammer : SLEDGE
20
Start of a Socratic quotation : ONCEMADE
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De ___ Clinton : WITT
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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
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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
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"Easy ___": 1936 song : TOLOVE
25
"Lest we lose our ___": Browning : EDENS
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Librarian's admonition : QUIET
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Combing the hair scalpward : UPSWEEPING
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Parrot : MIMIC
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Type of computer : ANALOG
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Ce n'est pas "oui" : NON
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Noted Florentine palace : PITTI
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Wears out one's welcome : STAYS
38
Arachnoid "parlor" : WEB
41
Hook henchman : SMEE
43
Dealt out : METED
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As cross ___ : ASABEAR
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Cents and pence : MONEY
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Herb, in Hamburg : KRAUT
51
Tractor trailer : SEMI
52
Informed of : UPON
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___ uncertain terms : INNO
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Preminger : OTTO
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Uprising of a sort : RIOT
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Inner drive : URGE
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Greasy stuff : LARD
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Cry of the sorrowful : ALAS
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Some radios: Abbr. : FMS

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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