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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Friday, November 6, 1981

48-Across : Mexican food

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
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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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,686
Across
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Suggestion : HINT
5
"Caveat emptor" notice : ASIS
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"It's ___ country" : AFREE
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Voyaging on the QE2 : ASEA
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Sewing-machine inventor : HOWE
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Settle down for the night : ROOST
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Salamander : NEWT
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Discordant : AJAR
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See 6 Down : TRUTH
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"I have a ___": King : DREAM
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Unique individual : ONER
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Jacques' summers : ETES
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Alabama site of a Freedom March : SELMA
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Says : UTTERS
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Sluggish : INERT
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Lennon was one : BEATLE
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Kind of sister : SOB
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Mortise fitting : TENON
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Like some infections : VIRAL
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Outline : PROFILE
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Soprano Galli-Curci : AMELITA
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Coral island : ATOLL
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Estimator : RATER
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Peridot, e.g. : GEM
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Mexican food : TAMALE
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King Arthur's father : UTHER
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Pleasure-dome site, in a Coleridge poem : XANADU
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"___ again!" : NEVER
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Play parts : ACTS
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Move : STIR
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Farm equipment name : DEERE
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Weeping one : CRIER
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Physicist's abbr. : ATNO
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Throat impediment : FROG
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"Roots" author : HALEY
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Movie pioneer : LOEW
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Icelandic literary works : EDDA
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Gotlander : SWEDE
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Misses the ball : ERRS
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Nothing, in Nancy : RIEN
Down
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Field workers : HANDS
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French river : ISERE
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Stairway post : NEWEL
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Straw mat : TATAMI
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"Eureka!" : AHA
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With 19 Across, famed black abolitionist : SOJOURNER
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"___ Hold Your Hand," 1963 song : IWANTTO
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Ukrainian river : SERET
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MOMA offering : ART
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Offshore flapper : FORESAIL
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Complete defeat : ROUT
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Tasso's patron : ESTE
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Suffixes with ordinal numbers : ETHS
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Conchita's cape : MANTILLA
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Johnny ___ : REB
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Title for Jesse Jackson : REVEREND
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Conger : EEL
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Kin of geom. : TRIG
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Behind schedule : LATE
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Ancient region, now part of Iran : ELAM
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Minor dispute : SPAT
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Jorge of the Indians : ORTA
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Type of spar : BOOM
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Subject of a Styron book : NATTURNER
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Source of a yellowish oil : FLAXSEED
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"___ Lady," T. N. Page short story : MEH
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Official who checks accounts : AUDITOR
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Printers' measures : ENS
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Illegal smoke : REEFER
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"___ told by an idiot ... ": Macbeth : ATALE
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"Rigoletto" composer : VERDI
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Wear down : ERODE
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Secretary of the Treasury : REGAN
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Exclamations from Hans : ACHS
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Bird's gullet : CRAW
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Mah-jongg piece : TILE
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Sandwich bread : RYE
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Cries of pain : OWS

Answer summary:
5 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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