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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Thursday, January 5, 1978

59-Down : What a dibble makes

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,372
Across
1
Desert steed : ARAB
5
Cheese : EDAM
9
Word with P.G., R or X : RATED
14
Spatiate : ROVE
15
"A bad excuse is better than ___" : NONE
16
Antelope : ELAND
17
Gas-company customer : USER
18
Region : AREA
19
Knights of ___ : MALTA
20
Famed entrepreneurs : BARNUMANDBAILEY
23
Star: Comb. form : ASTERO
24
Wide-awake : TERN
25
Writer Wolfert : IRA
27
Main port for grain from the Ukraine : ODESSA
32
Breath suspension : APNEA
36
Scram! : BLOW
39
Chinese pagodas : TAAS
40
"Pagliacci" theme : LAUGHCLOWNLAUGH
43
Church booklet : ORDO
44
Youth goddess : HEBE
45
Narrow back street : ALLEY
46
___-et-quarante (gambling game) : TRENTE
48
Water carrier : DIN
50
Elongated fish : EELS
53
City south of Roma : NAPOLI
58
Confusion in profusion : THREERINGCIRCUS
63
Jack's relative : HOIST
64
Reno game : FARO
65
"Fine women ___ crazy salad": Yeats : EATA
66
Book by Byrd : ALONE
67
Trolley : TRAM
68
Seattle ___ : SLEW
69
Restrain : DETER
70
Dog named for an island : SKYE
71
Kálmán operetta : SARI
Down
1
Isle famed for oil refining : ARUBA
2
Bouquet for a señorita : ROSAS
3
Prevent : AVERT
4
He wrote "Games People Play" : BERNE
5
Make overly fond : ENAMOR
6
Copperfield's "child-wife" : DORA
7
Concerning : ANENT
8
Civil War general : MEADE
9
Order back : REMAND
10
Soviet range : ALAI
11
___ in the saddle : TALL
12
Duck, in Dessau : ENTE
13
W.W. II date : DDAY
21
Bathsheba's mate : URIAH
22
University at Providence : BROWN
26
Senator's adjective for a colleague : ABLE
28
Useful bit of Latin : ETAL
29
He died fighting Philistines : SAUL
30
Russell ___, U.S. financier : SAGE
31
Pale : ASHY
32
"Thanks ___!" : ALOT
33
Young salmon : PARR
34
Dufy's "___ with Raised Arms" : NUDE
35
Pianist Petri : EGON
37
Tennis word : LOB
38
Was indebted : OWED
41
Gladden : CHEER
42
Hawaiian veranda : LANAI
47
Seesaw : TEETER
49
Black-ink side of a ledger : INCOME
51
Uses barbells : LIFTS
52
Boojum's relative : SNARK
54
Wine maker's rig : PRESS
55
Neighbor of Silver Springs : OCALA
56
Minstrel, at times : LUTER
57
"I came, ___ conquered" : ISAWI
58
Abolitionist Stevens, for short : THAD
59
What a dibble makes : HOLE
60
Vivid display : RIOT
61
Serf : ESNE
62
Uniform color of 1861 : GRAY

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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