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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Tuesday, March 4, 1986

43-Across : Road sign

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 25.8
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,265
Across
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Jezebel's husband : AHAB
5
Locale : SITE
9
Ape Groucho : LEER
13
Coty or Pleven : RENE
14
Vocalizing group : CHOIR
15
Heraldic band : ORLE
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Agnew's naysaying negativists : NATTERINGNABOBS
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Nugget source : ORE
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Handbag : PURSE
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Adjust a wristwatch : RESET
22
Broad : WIDE
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Roentgen items : REMS
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Buckingham, e.g. : PALACE
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"Silent ___" : CAL
29
Links org. : PGA
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Soviet river : URAL
33
Black eye: Slang : MOUSE
35
Captain's diary : LOG
36
With whom not to mess : MISTERINBETWEEN
40
Loser to D.D.E. : AES
41
Michelangelo masterpiece : MOSES
42
Loathe : HATE
43
Road sign : SLO
44
Wall Street option : PUT
45
Materials : CLOTHS
47
Buzzard's cousin : KITE
48
Region : AREA
49
Fall flower : ASTER
52
Concern of the I.C.C. : RATES
54
Cleo's snake : ASP
57
Advice in a 1915 song : SMILESMILESMILE
60
Cad : HEEL
61
Kind of pusher : PEDAL
62
U.S.A.F. group : UNIT
63
Weird : EERY
64
Summer quenchers : ADES
65
Fool : DUPE
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Pisa's river : ARNO
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Pay heed : HEAR
3
Poker pot, at first : ANTE
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Wager : BET
5
Stallone co-star : SHIRE
6
Molecule parts : IONS
7
Little big cats : TIGERCUBS
8
White-tailed bird : ERN
9
Ear parts : LOBES
10
Celebrated archer : EROS
11
River to the North Sea : ELBE
12
Take ten or five : REST
14
Unrefined : CRUDE
17
Long, imposing poem : EPIC
18
Ornamental band : ARMLET
22
Disney or Whitman : WALT
24
Facilitate : EASE
25
Cougars : PUMAS
26
Uranus satellite : ARIEL
27
Riata : LASSO
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Fold : PLEAT
30
What pride does before a fall : GOETH
31
A De Mille : AGNES
33
Wrongly classified : MISTERMED
34
Quarter of four : ONE
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Holy Roman, for one : EMPIRE
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Utter defeat : ROUT
39
Command to Dobbin : WHOA
45
Fisherman's basket : CREEL
46
Fewer's cousin : LESS
47
Pogo's creator : KELLY
48
Book for a globe-trotter : ATLAS
49
Tennis V.I.P. : ASHE
50
River duck : SMEE
51
Row : TIER
53
Helper : AIDE
54
Japanese aborigine : AINU
55
Lapse : SLIP
56
Fountain of music : PETE
58
Baden Baden, e.g. : SPA
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Pack or slide preceder : MUD

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

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