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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Monday, April 17, 1967

52-Down : Army acronym.

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 321 (avg 1.70)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 35.5 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
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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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,456
Across
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Disdainful exclamation. : POOF
5
Operative. : INUSE
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Title once held by MacArthur. : SCAP
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Cloth of gold. : LAME
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Neighbor of India. : NEPAL
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Hindustani. : URDU
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Literary whale-hunter. : AHAB
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Kiln. : STOVE
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Place of confusion. : MAZE
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Tank top. : TURRET
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Thirty days. : NOVEMBER
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Applies. : USES
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French dream. : REVE
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Fruit. : MAYAPPLE
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John Ringling's family. : NORTHS
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Imitation. : APERY
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Declaim. : ORATE
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Newsman's question. : HOW
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Implore. : PRAY
40
Veranda. : PORCH
41
Show anger. : FUME
42
Landed. : LIT
43
Window cleaner. : WIPER
44
Punctuation mark. : COMMA
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Howard of the Yankees. : ELSTON
47
"Seek roses in ___ ... " : DECEMBER
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Greatly impressed. : AWED
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Safe's companion. : SANE
52
Rome's first emperor. : AUGUSTUS
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Blue ___. : MONDAY
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Legal document. : WRIT
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Type of tire. : RECAP
63
Buddhist shrine. : TOPE
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Make eyes (at). : OGLE
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Fill with joy. : ELATE
66
Hebrew prophet. : EZRA
67
Slender. : LEAN
68
Girl's name: Sp. : ESTER
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Precious. : DEAR
Down
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Interweave. : PLAT
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Hawaiian island. : OAHU
3
Gen. Bradley. : OMAR
4
Second of twelve. : FEBRUARY
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Foot part. : INSTEP
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Fisher's gear. : NET
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Atop. : UPON
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Taste. : SAVOR
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At the ___ hour. : ELEVENTH
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Flower-and-bee time. : SUMMER
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Sea animal. : CRAB
12
Edged tool. : ADZE
13
Boy: Lat. : PUER
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See. : ESPY
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Bacchanalian cry. : EVOE
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Sailor's choice. : SLOOP
27
Tree. : MAPLE
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Forsythia time. : APRIL
29
Irish poet. : YEATS
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Made slips. : ERRED
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Road sign of a kind. : THUMB
33
French "man." : HOMME
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Take an oath. : SWEAR
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Land measures. : ACRES
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Maine's symbol. : PINETREE
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Stirred up. : FOMENTED
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Slangy exclamations. : WOWS
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New: Prefix. : CENO
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Grow tense. : TAUTEN
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Outdoorsman. : CAMPER
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Fights of a kind. : DUELS
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Army acronym. : AWOL
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Push. : URGE
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Arizona river. : GILA
55
Beat it! : SCAT
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Nap. : DOZE
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Guam's port. : APRA
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Part of an age. : YEAR
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Consumed. : ATE

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1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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