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The Clue

Barry or Robert of film fame (5 letter answer)

The Answer

MORSE

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Notes

The answer MORSE is common and appears about once every 200 puzzles.

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An anagram for mores
Code inventor
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Common code
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First telegrapher
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Man with a code
Mass. inventor
Name in telegraphy
Robert or Samuel
Samuel with a code
S.F.B., the inventor
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"Tru" star
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Robert, of stage and screen
Samuel Finley Breese
Samuel ___, U.S. artist
Tony winner for "Tru"
"Tru" Tony winner
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U.S. artist and telegraphy pioneer
Samuel Finley Breese's last name
Tony-winning actor of 1962 and 1990
"What hath God wrought" sender

Definition

MORSE as a noun:

1. (Morse, Morse code, international Morse code) = a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals)
2. (Morse, Samuel Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Morse) = United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)