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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Saturday, December 19, 1992

56-Down : Colliery opening

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { F J K Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0
Lou Sabin has 108 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 29 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Louis Sabin is an alias for Lou Sabin.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,747
Across
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"The Seventh Seal" director : BERGMAN
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Freshened : BRACED
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Some baseball statistics : AVERAGES
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Gully : RAVINE
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Network show : TELECAST
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Give tit for tat : AVENGE
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Salver : TRAY
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Singer of "Liebestod" : ISOLDE
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Ballroom step : DIP
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Poe's "___ of the Perverse" : IMP
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Spanish baby boys : NENES
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Molto ___ (fine): It. : BENE
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Base reply : NOSIR
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Hillary Clinton, ___ Rodham : NEE
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Bewitching one : SIREN
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Loons' kin : GREBES
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Talk like Scarlett : DRAWL
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Perfect : EDENIC
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Stanley Kowalski's wife : STELLA
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Horticulturist's suggestion : REPOT
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Music halls : ODEONS
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Berlin tune: 1928 : MARIE
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Cut short : BOB
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Cavell or Sitwell : EDITH
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Bjoerling forte : ARIA
51
Dan Beard group : TROOP
53
Whale of a whale : SEI
54
He wrote lyrics for Jerome : IRA
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Demosthenes, e.g. : ORATOR
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Astronaut Bean : ALAN
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Ritualistic repetition : LITANY
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Correct : EMENDATE
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Circumvents : EVADES
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Legal arrangement : RETAINER
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Cannes or Acapulco : RESORT
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Some drivers : RENTERS
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At the plate : BATTING
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Always : EVERMORE
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Backslid : RELAPSED
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Joel from Cleveland : GREY
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Finn ___ Cool : MAC
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Cochran-Newman tune: 1948 : AGAIN
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Ford's press secretary : NESSEN
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Carpenter's supply : BRADS
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Siskel reaction, sometimes : RAVE
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Galba's greeting : AVE
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Sign of fire : CINDER
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Donkey, e.g. : ENGINE
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Intensify : DEEPEN
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Three sheets to the wind : STONED
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Looks in old melodramas : LEERS
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Sent an invoice to : BILLED
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Albéniz composition : IBERIA
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Dancer Jeanmaire : RENEE
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Character in "The Killers" : SWEDE
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Test of a sort : SIP
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From ___ Z : ATO
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Ringhals's relative : COBRA
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Daily Planet byline : LOISLANE
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Hill invader : ANTEATER
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New Year's Eve celebrant : TOOTER
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Fight mementos : SHINERS
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"Ancient Evenings" author : MAILER
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Succeed : ARRIVE
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Lariats : RIATAS
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Baseball's George Scott : BOOMER
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Possible cause of "seen us" troubles : TRYST
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Ready, in Rouen : PRETE
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Sockdolager : ONER
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Colliery opening : ADIT
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Brouhaha : ADO
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Fabray, to friends : NAN

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