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Sidney L. Robbins
New York Times, Monday, April 30, 1990
15-Across : Chanteuse Horne
Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Grid flow: 23.9
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 I | 2 S | 3 L | 4 E | 5 S | 6 A | 7 L | 8 A | 9 S | 10 S | 11 M | 12 E | 13 W |
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14 O | L | I | V | E | 15 L | E | N | A | 16 T | A | X | I |
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17 T | A | K | E | A | 18 S | T | A | N | D | 19 E | R | I | N |
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20 A | V | E | R | 21 P | A | R | E | D | 22 W | I | S | E |
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23 S | 24 P | A | R | 25 U | 26 P | S | E | T | S |
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27 B | 28 A | 29 S | I | L | 30 B | 31 A | C | H | ||||||
32 A | S | H | O | E | 33 T | U | B | E | R | 34 P | 35 E | 36 I |
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37 S | T | A | N | D | 38 A | R | D | B | E | A | 39 R | E | R | S |
40 S | A | Y | 41 G | L | I | D | E | 42 S | E | R | I | N |
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43 E | L | M | Y | 44 E | P | A | C | T |
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45 S | 46 T | 47 R | 48 O | D | E | 49 D | 50 O | S | E | |||||
51 L | E | A | P | 52 R | 53 A | 54 G | E | D | 55 A | 56 L | 57 S | 58 O |
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59 U | N | I | T | 60 G | R | A | N | D | 61 S | T | A | N | D |
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62 N | O | S | E | 63 I | L | L | S | 64 A | E | R | I | E |
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65 G | R | A | D | 66 C | O | L | E | 67 T | R | A | P | S |
© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,783
Across
1
Jersey and Guernsey : ISLES
6
Dignified cousin of "Shucks!" : ALAS
10
Sawbill : SMEW
14
Oyl of comics : OLIVE
15
Chanteuse Horne : LENA
16
Cab : TAXI
17
What equivocators don't do : TAKEASTAND
19
Banshee's land : ERIN
20
State firmly : AVER
21
Peeled : PARED
22
Sagacious : WISE
23
Box lightly : SPAR
25
Turns over : UPSETS
27
Mountain mint : BASIL
30
One of the three B's : BACH
32
" ... who lived in ___" : ASHOE
33
Potato, e.g. : TUBER
34
Architect I. M. ___ : PEI
37
Flag carriers : STANDARDBEARERS
40
Utter : SAY
41
Slip by : GLIDE
42
Finch : SERIN
43
Abounding in chewbarks : ELMY
44
Time excess of a sort : EPACT
45
Took long steps : STRODE
49
Medicine portion : DOSE
51
Kind of year : LEAP
52
Stormed : RAGED
55
Too : ALSO
59
Army group : UNIT
60
Kind of play by a hot-dog : GRANDSTAND
62
Glasses supporter : NOSE
63
Woes : ILLS
64
High nest : AERIE
65
Alum : GRAD
66
Nat King ___ : COLE
67
Snares : TRAPS
Down
1
Speck : IOTA
2
An Eastern European : SLAV
3
Be pleased by : LIKE
4
Inside-out state : EVERSION
5
Coral or Yellow : SEA
6
Basilica feature : ALTAR
7
King or Norman : LEAR
8
Queen or princess : ANNE
9
Pharisee opponent : SADDUCEE
10
Simmers : STEWS
11
Berlin hit: 1928 : MARIE
12
Live : EXIST
13
Napa Valley products : WINES
18
Baden-Baden, e.g. : SPA
24
Solemnly promised : PLEDGED
26
Word groups : PHRASES
27
Fish or voice : BASS
28
Movie dog : ASTA
29
Holmes's "one-hoss ___" : SHAY
30
One of the Baers : BUDDY
31
Singer-dancer Lane : ABBE
33
Adorn : TRIM
34
Paduan's pear : PERA
35
___ the Red : ERIC
36
"___ It Romantic?": 1932 song : ISNT
38
Having a certain hypersensitivity : ALLERGIC
39
Six-shooter : REPEATER
45
Tossed : SLUNG
46
Quartet member : TENOR
47
Mrs. Gorbachev : RAISA
48
Chose : OPTED
49
Thick : DENSE
50
Not even : ODD
53
Folk singer Guthrie : ARLO
54
Chutzpah : GALL
56
Zhivago's love : LARA
57
Prune the hedges : SNIP
58
Pindar's prides : ODES
61
Was in session : SAT
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