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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Monday, June 18, 1990

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.84, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 22.0
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,832
Across
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Pile : HEAP
5
Hallowed: Comb. form : SACRO
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Freudian follower : SLIP
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Othello's villainous aide : IAGO
15
Apportion : ALLOT
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Yield : CEDE
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Headline sometimes seen in June : SCHOOLSOUT
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Patriot Nathan : HALE
20
Pottery fragment : SHARD
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Brief halt en route : STOPOVER
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Recipient of a gift : DONEE
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Garden tools : HOES
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Towel word : HERS
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Place for a pea : POD
32
Warsaw is its cap. : POL
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Ousted : EVICTED
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Pianist Gyorgy ___ : SANDOR
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Tom Swift's flying ___ : MACHINE
39
High crime : TREASON
41
Marine hazards : SHOALS
42
Skin shedding : ECDYSIS
43
Suffix with audit or direct : ORY
44
Twelve fifty-nine successor : ONE
45
Casa room : SALA
46
Cinders of comics : ELLA
48
Waggish : DROLL
50
Spot for a welcome mat : DOORSTEP
52
Specks; jots : IOTAS
57
Regarding : ASTO
58
Old-style word for a teacher : SCHOOLMARM
61
Broz : TITO
62
"As sure ___ as ever won ... ": Shak. : ACARD
63
His Rose was Irish : ABIE
64
Tree of the Philippines : ANAM
65
Rajah's bride : RANEE
66
Unmannerly : RUDE
Down
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Serpentine sound : HISS
2
Every's fellow traveler : EACH
3
Turkish commander : AGHA
4
___ Richard of Almanack fame : POOR
5
Pitcher Maglie : SAL
6
D'Amato and Smith : ALS
7
Shut down : CLOSED
8
Course of travel : ROUTE
9
Preminger or Graham : OTTO
10
Period in the life of Tom Brown : SCHOOLDAYS
11
Part of AWOL : LEAVE
12
Runs in neutral : IDLES
13
Jury member : PEER
18
Eccentric : ODD
22
Dialed : PHONED
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In a candid way : OPENLY
25
Central points : NODES
27
Stitch preceder : HEM
28
Le Gallienne and a Gabor : EVAS
29
Opulent : RICH
30
This has class : SCHOOLROOM
32
Post predecessor : PARCEL
34
Certain crowns : TIARAS
35
Worker in a pool : STENO
36
Pelion supporter : OSSA
37
Stir up the waters : ROIL
40
Org. for collegians : NSA
44
Little Oliver Twist, e.g. : ORPHAN
46
Red dye used in cosmetics : EOSIN
47
Actress Crabtree : LOTTA
48
British navigational aid : DECCA
49
Diamond bearer : LIL
50
Info : DATA
51
Ivan or Nicholas : TSAR
53
Famed tentmaker : OMAR
54
Prohibition : TABU
55
Dry : ARID
56
"Peter Pan" pirate : SMEE
59
Metal holder : ORE
60
Pindar product : ODE

Answer summary:
3 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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