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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Tuesday, December 15, 1981

37-Across : Odets, this was your sting!

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { M Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 19.3
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,725
Across
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Fellow : CHAP
5
Berate : SCOLD
10
Like Bill Hickok : WILD
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Suffer defeat : LOSE
15
Type of beaver : EAGER
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Thought : IDEA
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Ski resort in Utah : ALTA
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Tend : NURSE
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Ban : DENY
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Astronauts know the gravity of this situation : WEIGHTLESSNESS
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Vex : IRK
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Heir, often : SON
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Certain snowman : FROSTY
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Port ___, Egypt : SAID
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Cheer : RAH
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Ireland, once : EIRE
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Zoological suffix : OIDEA
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City in Peru : ICA
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Odets, this was your sting! : WAITINGFORLEFTY
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War zone in the 40's : ETO
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Prancers in the paddocks : COLTS
43
Swiss modernist artist : KLEE
44
Lost color : RAN
45
Angers : IRES
46
Raises cattle : BREEDS
48
Trinitrotoluene : TNT
49
Whitney : ELI
50
Lecture on tare and tret? : WEIGHTYSUBJECT
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Kind of admiral : REAR
59
Rub out : ERASE
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Tan color : ECRU
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Otherwise : ELSE
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Upsets : RILES
63
Mongol of SE Asia : SHAN
64
Dogboat : SLED
65
Worn out : SPENT
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Robe of office : TOGA
Down
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Type of hammer : CLAW
2
Pit : HOLE
3
Spumante city : ASTI
4
Wampum : PEAG
5
Guard : SENTRY
6
Use oakum : CAULK
7
Monster : OGRE
8
Relative of 25 Down : LESS
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Costumed more stylishly : DRESSIER
10
Expand : WIDEN
11
December 13, e.g. : IDES
12
Camera part : LENS
13
Dennis, but not the Menace : DAY
21
Three-bagger, e.g. : HIT
22
Knotty : NODAL
25
Not so many : FEWER
26
Lariat : RIATA
27
Constellation : ORION
28
Tennis grouping : SET
29
Uses a bolter : SIFTS
30
Fusses : ADOS
31
Chassepot : RIFLE
32
Performed : ACTED
33
President nicknamed "Old Eight to Seven" : HAYES
35
Stare desirously : OGLE
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Topper in a bakery : ICING
39
Winter storms : NORTHERS
40
Make do : EKE
46
Most melancholy : BLUEST
47
Josh : RIB
48
Weary : TIRED
49
Ruhr city : ESSEN
50
Open shaft for a staircase : WELL
51
Leisure : EASE
52
Stumble : TRIP
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Where Albie Booth starred : YALE
54
Joke : JEST
55
Repeat : ECHO
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Steep, rugged rock : CRAG
57
Sandwich filler : TUNA
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In medias ___ : RES

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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