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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Tuesday, September 19, 1989

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.84, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 0, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 18.3
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,560
Across
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State of NE India : ASSAM
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Attention : CARE
10
Kilauea output : LAVA
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Rent : LEASE
15
Dry : ARID
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Black, to Byron : EBON
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Hands on hips : ARMSAKIMBO
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Proceeds : GATE
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U.S. satellite : TIROS
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Dither : STEW
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Hang around idly : LOAF
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Hawaiian dish : POI
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Kind of down : EIDER
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From side to side : ACROSS
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Straight: Comb. form : RECTI
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Make movies : SHOOT
34
Inclination : PENCHANT
37
Canopies : TESTERS
39
Dejected : ALAMORT
41
Gives ground : RETREATS
43
Dermises : CORIA
44
Overgrown wasteland : HEATH
45
Brother of Gretel : HANSEL
46
Biblical nether world : SHEOL
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Opp. of WSW : ENE
50
Kind of job : DESK
51
Puncture : STAB
52
Kind of serum : TRUTH
54
Half: Prefix : HEMI
55
Measure up : TOETHELINE
60
Famed office : OVAL
61
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
62
Invigorate : RENEW
63
Oaken bucket's milieu : WELL
64
A.B.A. member : ATTY
65
Recipient : DONEE
Down
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A neighbor of Fla. : ALA
2
Weight of India : SER
3
Newsman Donaldson : SAM
4
Silly one : ASS
5
Butcher's stock : MEAT
6
Egypt's big city : CAIRO
7
Large wardrobe : ARMOIRE
8
Pokes fun at : RIBS
9
Tokyo, once : EDO
10
Al Capone contemporary : LEGSDIAMOND
11
Diminish : ABATE
12
Election Day figure : VOTER
13
Yet again : ANEW
18
Untanned hides of young animals : KIPS
22
Endure : LAST
23
Pigment for a palette : OCHER
24
Came up : AROSE
25
Pay a tab : FOOTTHEBILL
27
Bk. of the Bible : ECCL
28
Cornell's locale : ITHACA
30
Music-room item : STEREO
32
Spanish queen's namesakes : ENAS
34
School exam : PSAT
35
Vikings : NORSE
36
Puts to the proof : TRIES
38
Genuine : REAL
40
With 51 Down, Donahue program : TALK
42
At that place : THEREAT
45
Hebrew letter after zayin : HETH
46
Singer Lawrence : STEVE
47
Middle Eastern porter : HAMAL
49
Like fruit cakes : NUTTY
51
See 40 Down : SHOW
52
Legal wrong : TORT
53
Dairy collection : HERD
55
Social event : TEA
56
Durocher or Delibes : LEO
57
Small hotel : INN
58
Society-page word : NEE
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Farm animal : EWE

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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