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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Thursday, August 24, 1989

47-Down : Ruby from Halifax

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { F J X }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 30.2
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. 14,534
Across
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Fountain order : COLA
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Pitcher's forbidden movement : BALK
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Broadcast : SOWED
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Apartment : UNIT
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Protected, at sea : ALEE
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Dwell : ABIDE
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Close : SEAL
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Laugh up a storm : ROAR
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Red head, once : LENIN
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Hot actress of yore? : SARAHBURNHARDT
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Have to have : NEED
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Ruckus : ADO
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Savage, intractable person : TARTAR
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A Darling : RON
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Alaskan cape or seaport : NOME
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Stand ready : AWAIT
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Campus figure : DEAN
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Hailer's object : CAB
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Guitar's rel. : UKE
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Nobelist for Peace after Walesa : TUTU
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Miffed : IRATE
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Track event : MEET
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Past : AGO
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Actor Wynn: 1916-86 : KEENAN
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Shoot the breeze : RAP
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Change piece : CENT
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Sizzling Brooklyn revues? : BOILESQUESHOWS
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Start a golf game : DRIVE
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Fling : HURL
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What fans do : ROOT
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Race of gods led by Odin : AESIR
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Roof section : EAVE
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Poet Pound : EZRA
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Top-notch : GREAT
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Batik expert : DYER
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At no time, to Keats : NEER
Down
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Critter : CUSS
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Draft status : ONEA
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Fabulist : LIAR
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N.B.A. division : ATLANTIC
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Clip-joint owner? : BARBER
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In full voice : ALOUD
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Regan's father : LEAR
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"Roberta" composer : KERN
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Caesar, for one : SALAD
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Titania's mate : OBERON
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Coil : WIND
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Modify text : EDIT
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Chez Leo : DEN
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Evergreen shrub : HEATH
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"Chad ___," 1940 film : HANNA
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Noted jazz pianist : TATUM
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Left the land of Nod : AWOKE
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Street entertainment : RAREE
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Verso's complement : RECTO
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Honolulu's locale : OAHU
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Expanse : OCEAN
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Arthur Tracy's theme song : MARTA
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A k a Barnaby Jones : EBSEN
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Stupefy : DRUG
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Storehouse : ETAPE
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Airs : MIENS
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Fellow members : BRETHREN
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Slight matters : TRIVIA
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Ruby from Halifax : KEELER
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On the qui vive : ALERT
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Continuous bending line : CURVE
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Rabbit or Fox : BRER
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Seine feeder : OISE
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Lean-to : SHED
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Pier : QUAY
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Guck or muck : OOZE
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"When You ___ a Tulip ... ": 1914 song : WORE
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Asterisk : STAR
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Hammarskjold : DAG

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