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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Wednesday, August 24, 1983

27-Down : "Oh, What ___ Was Mary": 1919 song

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 308 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 34.5
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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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,342
Across
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Activator : GOAD
5
Scout sites : CAMPS
10
Ultimate : NTH
13
Hanging around : IDLE
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Music hall : ODEON
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Words of worry : OHOH
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Kahn-Donaldson song: 1928 : LOVEMEORLEAVEME
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Dry-goods dealer : DRAPER
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Narrow valley : GLEN
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Ayres or Wallace : LEW
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Host : EMCEE
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Hard times : RIGORS
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Sci-fi creature : ANDROID
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Czech, for one : SLAV
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Through : PER
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"___ a gun!" : SONOF
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Opt for : ELECT
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Author Ben ___ Williams : AMES
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Lowest point : NADIR
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"___ the Agent" : ABIE
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Reluctant : LOATH
45
Ecological cycles : SERES
47
Southwestern Indian : UTE
48
Field calls : MOOS
50
Traveled over snow : SLEDGED
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Taste : PALATE
54
Western Belle : STARR
55
Self : EGO
56
Theater sign : EXIT
58
Veranda : PIAZZA
62
Gordon-Revel song, with "The": 1935 : LOVELINESSOFYOU
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Ash or rowan : TREE
66
Land follower : SCAPE
67
Fed : TMAN
68
Refuge : ARK
69
Cradle calls : MAMAS
70
Posted : SENT
Down
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Add unnecessarily : GILD
2
Repute : ODOR
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Part of T.A.E. : ALVA
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More involved : DEEPER
5
Force : COERCION
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___ Annie in "Oklahoma!" : ADO
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Blend : MERGE
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Kind of tax : POLL
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Apes a baddie : SNEERS
10
Fall mo. : NOV
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Disney film: 1969 : THELOVEBUG
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Noted bard : HOMER
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Axes : HEWS
18
Exec. items : MEMOS
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Like some senior citizens : ANILE
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Best and Stengel : EDNAS
26
Celebratory : GALA
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"Oh, What ___ Was Mary": 1919 song : APAL
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Verne character : NEMO
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Grey-Schertzinger song: 1929 : DREAMLOVER
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Lyrical poem : ODE
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Initial : FIRST
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Quote : CITE
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___ off (in a snit) : TEED
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Ancient ambulatory : STOA
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Sinks back : RELAPSES
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Traveler's stopover : HOTEL
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Comic like Chaplin : SERIO
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Form of discrimination : SEXISM
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Rough scripts : DRAFTS
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Skin : PELT
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Marketplace : AGORA
54
Cookbook direction : STEAM
57
Quechuan : INCA
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Ferment : ZYME
60
Biblical city (also called Tanis) : ZOAN
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Polly, to Tom Sawyer : AUNT
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Cartoon cry : EEK
64
Evian-les-Bains is one : SPA

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

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