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Sidney L. Robbins
New York Times, Wednesday, January 18, 1989
57-Across : Writer Cobb
Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 251 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 22.7
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 S | 2 C | 3 A | 4 L | 5 D | 6 B | 7 E | 8 L | 9 A | 10 G | 11 A | 12 M | 13 P |
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14 S | U | G | A | R | 15 R | A | I | N | 16 U | R | A | L |
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17 T | R | A | V | E | 18 A | R | E | A | 19 I | N | T | O |
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20 B | R | A | S | 21 S | K | N | U | C | 22 K | L | E | S | ||
23 S | U | E | 24 O | A | T | |||||||||
25 S | 26 A | 27 B | 28 E | A | N | 29 S | 30 E | N | T | 31 E | 32 D | 33 O |
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34 A | G | I | N | G | 35 A | M | A | D | 36 S | L | A | V |
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37 G | O | L | D | E | 38 N | P | A | R | A | 39 C | H | U | T | E |
40 A | R | L | O | 41 O | I | L | S | 42 A | U | D | E | N |
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43 S | A | Y | 44 G | N | A | T | 45 A | L | T | E | R | S |
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46 E | O | S | 47 A | W | L | |||||||||
48 S | 49 I | L | V | E | 50 R | 51 T | O | N | G | 52 U | 53 E | 54 D | ||
55 S | A | N | D | 56 N | E | A | R | 57 I | R | V | I | 58 N |
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59 O | N | C | E | 60 S | A | L | T | 61 R | E | E | S | E |
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62 D | E | A | R | 63 E | L | L | A | 64 L | A | N | C | E |
© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,316
Across
1
Cooking direction : SCALD
6
Lugosi or Bartók : BELA
10
Londoner's umbrella : GAMP
14
Pet name : SUGAR
15
Short story about Sadie Thompson : RAIN
16
River to the Caspian : URAL
17
Crossbeam : TRAVE
18
Vicinity : AREA
19
Penetrating preposition : INTO
20
Weapons in fisticuffs : BRASSKNUCKLES
23
Litigate : SUE
24
Kind of meal : OAT
25
Of an ancient Arabian kingdom : SABEAN
29
Forwarded : SENT
31
Tokyo's former name : EDO
34
Antiquer's activity : AGING
35
"It's ___ world": Dickens : AMAD
36
Tito was one : SLAV
37
Antitakeover protection for executives : GOLDENPARACHUTE
40
Woody Guthrie's son : ARLO
41
Medium for Monet : OILS
42
Poet Wystan Hugh ___ : AUDEN
43
Utter : SAY
44
Flying pest : GNAT
45
Does some tailoring : ALTERS
46
Aurora, to the Greeks : EOS
47
Tool for making holes : AWL
48
Like Bryan? : SILVERTONGUED
55
Hourglass filler : SAND
56
Cheap; miserly : NEAR
57
Writer Cobb : IRVIN
59
A third of thrice : ONCE
60
Season : SALT
61
Pee Wee of baseball : REESE
62
Expensive : DEAR
63
Cinders of comics : ELLA
64
Knight's weapon : LANCE
Down
1
Fast plane : SST
2
Hold back : CURB
3
Culture medium : AGAR
4
Volcanic material : LAVA
5
Horse trainer's method : DRESSAGE
6
Stopper of sorts : BRAKE
7
Merit : EARN
8
Kind of tenant? : LIEU
9
Copper city or S.A. boa : ANACONDA
10
Certain complex : GUILT
11
"Comus" composer : ARNE
12
Wrestlers' pads : MATS
13
Arafat's gp. : PLO
21
Heavenly heater : SUN
22
Krazy one in comics : KAT
25
Adventure tales : SAGAS
26
Marketplace : AGORA
27
Melville's ___ Budd : BILLY
28
Within: Comb. form : ENDO
29
Blue pigment : SMALT
30
Corn units : EARS
31
Give the slip to : ELUDE
32
Library gadget : DATER
33
Some are Dutch : OVENS
35
Samoan port : APIA
36
Close : SHUT
38
Stuff's partner : NONSENSE
39
Strumpet with a phone : CALLGIRL
44
N.Y.'s Cuomo : GOV
45
Wheat bristle : AWN
46
Church bigwig : ELDER
47
Main artery : AORTA
48
Sensible : SANE
49
Peruvian native of yore : INCA
50
Kind of estate : REAL
51
Like Bol of basketball : TALL
52
Plastics ingredient : UREA
53
Fifty-fifty : EVEN
54
Platter : DISC
55
Turf : SOD
58
Society-page word : NEE
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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