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Sawikin
Sawikin

New York Times, Tuesday, August 4, 1981

Author:
Sawikin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 32.4
Sawikin has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,592
Across
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H. T. Webster's "The Timid ___" : SOUL
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Lowest part of a mine : SUMP
9
Peach or Orange : BOWL
13
"___ fan tutte" : COSI
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Not carrying a gat or shiv : CLEAN
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"Vesti la giubba," e.g. : ARIA
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"They ___ serve ... " : ALSO
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Foolish : INANE
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Fat from hogs : LARD
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Famed American showmen : BARNUMANDBAILEY
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Prefix with pod and plane : TRI
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The Caribbean, to the Atlantic : ARM
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They take it all back : RECANTERS
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Hearth, for Henri : ATRE
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Minute particle : ATOM
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___ carte : ALA
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Letter preceding iota : THETA
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Innovation by 20 Across : THREERINGCIRCUS
42
Inheritors : HEIRS
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Colloid : GEL
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Medical suffix : ITIS
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Laddie's girl : LASS
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Flexible flier : AERIALIST
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Balaam's ___ : ASS
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Having no value : NIL
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Sondheim's request : SENDINTHECLOWNS
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Region : AREA
61
Actor featured in "Vega$" : URICH
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Mess up : FAIL
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Confederate hue : GRAY
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Take a dip : BATHE
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Unemployed : IDLE
66
Small vipers : ASPS
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Where to spend a new kip : LAOS
68
___ off (angry) : TEED
Down
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Strikebreaker : SCAB
2
Alley Oop's beloved : OOLA
3
U.S.A. rival : USSR
4
Chair wielders, often : LIONTAMERS
5
Single-edged sword : SCIMITAR
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Forearm bone : ULNA
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Average : MEAN
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Raccoons' kin : PANDAS
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Denpasar is its capital : BALI
10
Kind of surgery : ORAL
11
Word with high or tight : WIRE
12
Fat ___, sideshow attraction : LADY
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Univ. at Lincoln : NEBR
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This turned Keats on : URN
22
Italian violin : AMATI
25
"Jabberwocky" creature : RATH
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Lucy's TV friend : ETHEL
27
___ del Rio, town near Sevilla : CORIA
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New Haven student : ELI
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Magnitude : RANGE
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"The ___ All," 1963 Jewison film : THRILLOFIT
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Straight; right: Comb. form : RECTI
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Small needle cases : ETUIS
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Aide: Abbr. : ASST
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Piece by Montaigne : ESSAI
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Marx's nat. land : GER
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Boxers' entanglements : CLINCHES
46
Pertaining to the stars : ASTRAL
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Be unwell : AIL
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Social slight : SNUB
51
Epic story : SAGA
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Goes wrong : ERRS
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Kind of tide : NEAP
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Doris and Dennis : DAYS
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"A ___ very palpable hit": Shak. : HITA
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Kind of chamber : ECHO
57
Virginia of tennis fame : WADE
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World's longest river : NILE
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Rosebud was one in "Citizen Kane" : SLED

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

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