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Rubin
Rubin

New York Times, Tuesday, January 15, 1980

45-Across : Word with sob or weak

Author:
Rubin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Rubin has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,025
Across
1
Second-year coll. students : SOPHS
6
Long : ACHE
10
English prison : GAOL
14
Repose : QUIET
15
Vilipend : SLUR
16
Bombeck : ERMA
17
Sam or Tom : UNCLE
18
Volga tributary : KAMA
19
Indicate, as a thermometer : READ
20
Admittance : ACCESS
22
Her baby was a little devil : ROSEMARY
24
Kind of ball or bag : BEAN
25
Spanish saint and mystic : THERESA
27
White-sale items : SHEETS
29
___ basin : TIDAL
33
Diagram : MAP
36
Gardner et al. : AVAS
37
Declining : SENILE
38
Gave power or authority : ENABLED
40
"___ Aïda" : CELESTE
41
Invalidates : ANNULS
42
Yuletide : NOEL
43
Opposite of vert. : HOR
44
Game having numbers : LOTTO
45
Word with sob or weak : SISTER
47
Shakespeare's "___ Night" : TWELFTH
49
Simple : EASY
53
Certain card : FOURSPOT
56
One of the Kennedys : EUNICE
58
Frank : ANNE
59
"M*A*S*H" actress : SWIT
61
Flop : LEMON
62
"___ to laugh": Pinero : ITIS
63
Bread spread : OLEO
64
Broker : AGENT
65
Spoils : ROTS
66
Breckinridge : MYRA
67
Girl of the Golden Fleece : MEDEA
Down
1
Unfledged pigeon : SQUAB
2
Small quantity : OUNCE
3
Pike, in Pisa : PICCA
4
Keller and Hayes : HELENS
5
Fem. holy ones, in France : STES
6
Answer's antonym : ASK
7
Wines : CLARETS
8
Indulges : HUMORS
9
Remove : ERASE
10
Author Greer : GERMAINE
11
Type of rug : AREA
12
Khayyám : OMAR
13
Finishing-school product : LADY
21
Allen and Canyon : STEVES
23
Actress Winwood : ESTELLE
26
Top : HEAD
28
Venerates : HALLOWS
30
Dinner need : DISH
31
Kind of horn : ALTO
32
Sly look : LEER
33
Corn or oat follower : MEAL
34
___ Domini : ANNO
35
Gasp : PANT
37
Boil : SEETHE
39
Support : BUTTRESS
40
Outlay : COST
42
Finer : NIFTIER
45
"Make haste ___" : SLOWLY
46
Break a promise : RENEGE
48
Salts or Downs : EPSOM
50
Pointed : AIMED
51
Cake : SCONE
52
Gossipy woman : YENTA
53
County event : FAIR
54
Upon : ONTO
55
One is one : UNIT
57
Author of "The Unfinished Revolution": 1979 : ULAM
60
"___ Skylark": Shelley : TOA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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