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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Monday, June 5, 1989

40-Across : Command to Fido

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 47.2
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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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,454
Across
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Singer Elliot : CASS
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Mideast rulers : EMIRS
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An anagram for team : MEAT
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Dos y seis : OCHO
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Pissarro contemporary : MONET
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Russian saint : OLGA
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Tea sweetener : BROWNSUGAR
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Fabulist : LIAR
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Naturalist Charles : BEEBE
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One in opposition : RESISTER
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Bring home the bacon : EARN
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Medieval blade : SNEE
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Salutes : HELLOS
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Kampala native : UGANDAN
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"2001: A Space Odyssey" star : DULLEA
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Spheres : ORBS
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Arikara : REE
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Just : ONLY
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Night on the town : SPREE
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Caesar and Stone : SIDS
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III x LXVII : CCI
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Command to Fido : STAY
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Still-life objects : APPLES
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Jewish months : SHEBATS
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Knitters' woes : SNARLS
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Burden : ONUS
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Peon's predecessor : ESNE
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Crib spread : COVERLET
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Goalie's credits : SAVES
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Diner order : JAVA
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Irregularly shaped piece of furniture : KIDNEYDESK
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Route to Roma : ITER
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Provide (with) : ENDUE
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Kett of comics : ETTA
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Skeletal : BONY
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"The Second Coming" poet : YEATS
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Cheer : ROOT
Down
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Career .367 hitter : COBB
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Homestead segment : ACRE
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Sabot : SHOE
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Salt pork : SOWBELLY
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Bad ___, German spa : EMS
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Laments : MOURNS
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"Picnic" playwright : INGE
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Give new confidence to : REASSURE
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Tall, skinny fellers : STRINGBEANS
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Lavalike : MOLTEN
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Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
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Medium for Pasteur : AGAR
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Swabbie : TAR
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Fraser of tennis : NEALE
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Vastnesses : SEAS
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Thanksgiving favorite : ROASTTURKEY
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Suspicion; guess : HUNCH
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"___ Rhee," 1865 song : ELLIE
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Kind of sergeant : DRILL
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Culex's kin : AEDES
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Drumnadrochit's loch : NESS
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Severinsen and Holliday : DOCS
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Kid ___, famed jazzman : ORY
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Dice shooter's strip : PASSLINE
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Farm implement : SPREADER
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Balanced : SANE
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Li'l Abner's mammy : PANSY
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Flaubert heroine : BOVARY
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Metal fastener : SETNUT
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Roman statesman : CATO
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Chamber in a pizzeria : OVEN
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Snorri's stories : EDDA
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Oval Office act : VETO
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"___ Perpetua," Idaho's motto : ESTO
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Card game for three : SKAT
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Triangular sail : JIB
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M.I.T. grads : EES

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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