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.
Related Clues
___ code
An anagram for mores
Code inventor
Code man
Code name
Common code
Dotty inventor?
First telegrapher
Inventor Samuel
Kind of alphabet
Kind of code
Kind of signals
Man with a code
Mass. inventor
Name in telegraphy
Robert or Samuel
Samuel with a code
S.F.B., the inventor
Telegraph pioneer
"Tru" star
Type of code
Colin Dexter's inspector
Famed name in Oregon
"How to Succeed . . . " actor
Inspector of crime fiction
Robert, of stage and screen
Samuel Finley Breese
Samuel ___, U.S. artist
Tony winner for "Tru"
"Tru" Tony winner
U.S. artist-inventor
Lewis's mystery-solving partner
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)