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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Friday, October 22, 1976

62-Across : Lends a hand

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 43, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J K X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 7, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6 Grid is asymmetric.
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,932
Across
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Mecca native : ARAB
5
Hosses : NAGS
9
Worthless : BASE
13
Japanese ship name : MARU
14
Off balance : ALOP
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Come up again : RECUR
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Private eye : OPERATIVE
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Goofed : ERRED
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"Peter Piper ... ," e.g. : TONGUETWISTER
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Water bird : TERN
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One of the degrees : NTH
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Biblical song: Abbr. : PSA
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___ Moines : DES
27
High note : ELA
28
Chinese leader : MAO
31
Particles : IONS
33
Detesting : LOATHING
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"The ___" (stage blooper) : QUOONHASSWEENED
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Softens : UNSTEELS
40
Upstate N.Y. city : ROME
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Dutch town : EDE
42
Him, in Italy : GLI
43
Latin goddess : DEA
46
Nessen : RON
47
___ soda : SAL
48
Trees : ELMS
50
Famed word-warper : DOCTORSPOONER
56
Filament: Prefix : FIBRO
57
Eludes : SLIPSAWAY
59
In noisy confusion : AROAR
60
Sotto ___ : VOCE
61
Plexus : RETE
62
Lends a hand : HELPS
63
Peevish fits : PETS
64
Formerly, of old : ERST
Down
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I love, to Livy : AMO
2
Engrossed : RAPT
3
Mars: Prefix : AREO
4
Orange or offering : BURNT
5
Mother ___ : NATURE
6
Noncitizens : ALIENS
7
Wash. concern : GOVT
8
Gush out : SPEW
9
Give a wide ___ to : BERTH
10
Land measure : ACRE
11
Plaintiff : SUER
12
Common shrew : ERD
15
Put in another way : RESTATE
17
___ in the wood : AGED
20
Family addition : INLAW
23
Excite : PIQUE
24
Long Island or Puget : SOUND
25
Win by ___ : ANOSE
27
Dawn goddess : EOS
28
Like clubs or diamonds : MINOR
29
Wind: Prefix : ANEMO
30
Reid or Nash : OGDEN
32
Lush : SOT
33
Sea-rescue branch: Abbr. : LSS
34
Part of H.R.H. : HER
36
Ones who deny : NEGATORS
37
Phone-call opener : HELLO
38
Baba : ALI
43
Portray : DEPICT
44
Goes to Gretna Green : ELOPES
45
Biblical prophet : AMOS
47
Kind of iron or heap : SCRAP
49
Trap : SNARE
50
Kind of straits : DIRE
51
Old Greek coin : OBOL
52
Comeback initials : RSVP
53
Gin source : SLOE
54
Pitcher : EWER
55
Ship stowaways : RATS
56
Temperature scale: Abbr. : FAH
58
Still : YET

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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