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Robert Lieblich
Robert Lieblich

New York Times, Saturday, January 30, 1993

Author:
Robert Lieblich
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 28, Avg Word Len: 5.79, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 90, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 58.0
Robert Lieblich has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,789
Across
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Sings lustily while fishing? : TROLLS
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Like a Mensa convention? : SAPLESS
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Grave : SERIOUS
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Party to a deed : ALIENEE
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Concerning knowledge : EPISTEMOLOGICAL
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Weighty stories? : TAELS
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He left things to Chance : EVERS
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Use a poet's corkscrew? : OPE
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Autograph a math curve? : SINE
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Naked boxers? : BAERS
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Disney sci-fi film : TRON
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Tolkien's Treebeard, e.g. : ENT
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Panza's Dapple : BURRO
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Half a reassurance : THERE
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Metrical anagram for resets : STERES
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Least hasty : POKIEST
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Breaks off operations : INTERMITS
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Botch the boss's letter : MISTYPE
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Waver like Lara? : TEETER
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Beefcakers : HUNKS
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More frigid : ICIER
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Sickening drink? : ALE
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Emerald-eyed one's feeling : ENVY
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Ados : STIRS
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Member of the Brady Bunch : GREG
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Author related to Drinkwater? : ADE
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Question on the WATS line? : WHOSE
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Medallion : BADGE
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Ruler like Robert? : PARLIAMENTARIAN
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Designate : ENTITLE
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Plain to see : EVIDENT
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Knocks off : DESISTS
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Tips : ALERTS
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Redundant flies? : TSETSES
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Change color : REPAINT
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Where Fidel began : ORIENTE
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Thread for Waggoner? : LISLE
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Quite a bit : LOTS
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Sioux City lass : SUE
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British auctioneer's milieu : SALEROOM
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Then, in Tours : ALORS
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Pen pals? : PIGS
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Hawaiian gift : LEI
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Bonus performances : ENCORES
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Valparaiso, e.g. : SEAPORT
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Greek Diana : SELENE
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Defame : SMEAR
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Too exacting : OVERPRECISE
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Buxom : BUSTY
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The ones before us : THESE
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Leanings : BENTS
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More stringent solution strength? : TITER
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Uncertain : RISKY
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Checks from no-accounts' accounts : KITES
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Abstracts : EPITOMES
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Banal : MUNDANE
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Some P.O. boo-boos : INVERTS
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More behind time : TARDIER
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Like fine wines : ELEGANT
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Some rulers : REGENTS
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Piled up : HEAPED
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One of the Forsytes : IRENE
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Commandment word : SHALT
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"En ___!" : GARDE
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Emitters of mots : WITS
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Use a pail : BAIL
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Year in Claudius I's reign : LII
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Dam bureaucrats : TVA

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

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