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Lou Sabin
New York Times, Saturday, September 21, 1991
47-Across : Stops beating around the bush
Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.56, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 60.4
Lou Sabin has 108 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 29 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Louis Sabin is an alias for Lou Sabin.
1 T | 2 O | 3 T | 4 E | 5 S | 6 F | 7 E | 8 T | 9 I | 10 D | |||||
11 P | A | R | E | N | T | 12 A | B | I | D | E | 13 S | |||
14 M | A | K | I | N | G | O | 15 N | E | S | P | O | I | N | 16 T |
17 O | L | E | O | S | 18 C | E | R | E | S | 19 C | A | R |
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20 D | O | O | N | 21 S | K | E | I | N | 22 L | I | K | E |
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23 E | M | U | 24 C | H | I | D | E | 25 W | I | D | E | N |
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26 M | A | T | 27 E | R | I | E | L | 28 H | O | N | E | S | T |
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29 B | A | R | R | E | 30 L | I | N | G | ||||||
31 A | 32 B | 33 S | E | N | T | 34 P | O | N | T | O | 35 O | 36 N | 37 S |
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38 N | O | T | R | E | 39 D | O | N | T | S | 40 P | E | W |
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41 T | R | E | T | 42 P | R | I | G | S | 43 S | A | V | E |
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44 I | R | A | 45 A | E | O | N | S | 46 A | L | L | I | E |
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47 C | O | M | 48 E | S | T | O | T | H | 49 E | P | O | I | N | T |
50 W | E | A | S | E | L | 51 O | R | S | O | N | S | |||
52 D | R | E | S | S | 53 T | R | O | P | E |
© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,292
Across
1
Carries by hand : TOTES
6
Noisome : FETID
11
Dam, to a lamb : PARENT
12
Stays : ABIDES
14
Activity for debaters or dicers : MAKINGONESPOINT
17
TV backdrops : OLEOS
18
Largest asteroid : CERES
19
Vance's Packard? : CAR
20
Ayrshire river : DOON
21
Flock of geese : SKEIN
22
Go for : LIKE
23
Ostrich's kin : EMU
24
Take to task : CHIDE
25
Expand : WIDEN
26
Military equipment : MATERIEL
28
Othello's adjective for Iago : HONEST
29
Speeder's activity : BARRELING
31
Away : ABSENT
34
Bridge supports : PONTOONS
38
Dame lead-in : NOTRE
39
No-nos : DONTS
40
Sabbath seat : PEW
41
Post-tare allowance : TRET
42
Bluenoses : PRIGS
43
Rink event : SAVE
44
Org. in "Odd Man Out" : IRA
45
Eternities : AEONS
46
TV role for Jane Curtin : ALLIE
47
Stops beating around the bush : COMESTOTHEPOINT
50
Be ambiguous : WEASEL
51
Bean and Welles : ORSONS
52
Dolly Varden, e.g. : DRESS
53
Figure of speech : TROPE
Down
1
Kind of order : TAKEOUT
2
Belted night sight : ORION
3
Gymnasts' goals : TENS
4
Part of the U.K. : ENG
5
More thickset : STOCKIER
6
Spenser's "The ___ Queene" : FAERIE
7
Barnaby Jones portrayer : EBSEN
8
Overturns : TIPS
9
Altar agreement : IDO
10
Murder of a god : DEICIDE
11
Dove, in Durango : PALOMA
13
Ophidians : SNAKES
14
Device for transmission of data : MODEM
15
Form of embroidery : NEEDLEPOINT
16
E. C. Bentley sleuth : TRENT
21
Gift that finished Hercules : SHIRT
22
Dialect : LINGO
24
Weight lifter : CRANE
25
Customs : WONTS
27
Siskel's partner : EBERT
28
Suggestions : HINTS
30
Unlikely winner : LONGSHOT
31
Nip-up : ANTIC
32
Disregard Polonius's advice : BORROW
33
Saw red : STEAMED
35
Iridescent : OPALINE
36
Historian Allan ___ : NEVINS
37
Containing aspartame : SWEET
39
Talks foolishly : DROOLS
42
Seeger and Sampras : PETES
43
Single-masted vessel : SLOOP
45
Caama : ASSE
46
Lhasa ___ : APSO
48
Attention : EAR
49
Drop a pop-up : ERR
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.