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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Tuesday, December 17, 1985

58-Across : Ernie of baseball fame

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,188
Across
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Tableland : MESA
5
N.H.'s state flower : LILAC
10
Pop : DAD
13
King toppers : ACES
14
Sports area : ARENA
15
Artist Charles ___ Gibson : DANA
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Temporary prexy : PRESIDENTPROTEM
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Khartoum is its capital : SUDAN
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Explode : DETONATE
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Scratch producer : ITCH
24
Soft drink : SODA
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"Bonjour, mon ___" : AMI
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Babylonian deity : ERUA
30
Quit working : RETIRE
34
Forbid : BAN
35
Inclines : RAMPS
37
Periods of time : ERAS
38
Veep's possible role : ACTINGPRESIDENT
42
Cultivate : FARM
43
Discover : HITON
44
Born : NEE
45
Cheap: Slang : TWOBIT
48
Secular : LAIC
49
Eternally, to Poe : EER
50
Juice drinks : ADES
52
Hebrew month : ELUL
54
Horned : ANTLERED
58
Ernie of baseball fame : BANKS
62
Ford or Carter : FORMERPRESIDENT
65
Regrets : RUES
66
Giant grass : OTATE
67
Kind of spirit : EVIL
68
Quarter of four : ONE
69
Clergyman's dickey : RABAT
70
Alliance acronym : NATO
Down
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Charts : MAPS
2
Tannish : ECRU
3
Pip : SEED
4
Very: Mus. : ASSAI
5
Boy : LAD
6
Anger : IRE
7
Lease preceder : LEND
8
Poker payments : ANTES
9
Paris, to Helen : CAPTOR
10
Information : DATA
11
Dill of the Bible : ANET
12
Title Christie held : DAME
15
Made a charitable gift : DONATED
17
Clinic figure : INTERN
18
Took a cab : RODE
22
Bluff : CRAG
23
Sound of doubt or disdain : HUMPH
25
In the rear, at sea : ABAFT
26
Parrot : MACAW
27
Opening monologue, for short : INTRO
29
Showery month : APRIL
31
Good-night girl : IRENE
32
Rajah's mate : RANEE
33
Chemical compound : ESTER
36
Bristles : SETAE
39
Preserves in memory: Var. : IMBALMS
40
Earth : SOIL
41
Nightmares : INCUBI
46
___ fixe : IDEE
47
Holy ___ (brat) : TERROR
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Partitions : SEPTA
53
Burdened : LADEN
54
Hairdo for a soul brother : AFRO
55
Part of speech : NOUN
56
What Daphne became : TREE
57
Colorless; monotonous : DRAB
59
Soviet river : NEVA
60
Emulate Mme. Defarge : KNIT
61
Town in Normandy : STLO
63
Letter from Athens : ETA
64
Gel : SET

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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