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Rubin
Rubin

New York Times, Tuesday, January 15, 1980

Author:
Rubin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 21.9 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Rubin has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,025
Across
1
Second-year coll. students : SOPHS
6
Long : ACHE
10
English prison : GAOL
14
Repose : QUIET
15
Vilipend : SLUR
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Bombeck : ERMA
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Sam or Tom : UNCLE
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Volga tributary : KAMA
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Indicate, as a thermometer : READ
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Admittance : ACCESS
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Her baby was a little devil : ROSEMARY
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Kind of ball or bag : BEAN
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Spanish saint and mystic : THERESA
27
White-sale items : SHEETS
29
___ basin : TIDAL
33
Diagram : MAP
36
Gardner et al. : AVAS
37
Declining : SENILE
38
Gave power or authority : ENABLED
40
"___ Aïda" : CELESTE
41
Invalidates : ANNULS
42
Yuletide : NOEL
43
Opposite of vert. : HOR
44
Game having numbers : LOTTO
45
Word with sob or weak : SISTER
47
Shakespeare's "___ Night" : TWELFTH
49
Simple : EASY
53
Certain card : FOURSPOT
56
One of the Kennedys : EUNICE
58
Frank : ANNE
59
"M*A*S*H" actress : SWIT
61
Flop : LEMON
62
"___ to laugh": Pinero : ITIS
63
Bread spread : OLEO
64
Broker : AGENT
65
Spoils : ROTS
66
Breckinridge : MYRA
67
Girl of the Golden Fleece : MEDEA
Down
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Unfledged pigeon : SQUAB
2
Small quantity : OUNCE
3
Pike, in Pisa : PICCA
4
Keller and Hayes : HELENS
5
Fem. holy ones, in France : STES
6
Answer's antonym : ASK
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Wines : CLARETS
8
Indulges : HUMORS
9
Remove : ERASE
10
Author Greer : GERMAINE
11
Type of rug : AREA
12
Khayyám : OMAR
13
Finishing-school product : LADY
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Allen and Canyon : STEVES
23
Actress Winwood : ESTELLE
26
Top : HEAD
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Venerates : HALLOWS
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Dinner need : DISH
31
Kind of horn : ALTO
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Sly look : LEER
33
Corn or oat follower : MEAL
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___ Domini : ANNO
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Gasp : PANT
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Boil : SEETHE
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Support : BUTTRESS
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Outlay : COST
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Finer : NIFTIER
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"Make haste ___" : SLOWLY
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Break a promise : RENEGE
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Salts or Downs : EPSOM
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Pointed : AIMED
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Cake : SCONE
52
Gossipy woman : YENTA
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County event : FAIR
54
Upon : ONTO
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One is one : UNIT
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Author of "The Unfinished Revolution": 1979 : ULAM
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"___ Skylark": Shelley : TOA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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