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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Wednesday, December 21, 1983

45-Across : Star of "The Bank Dick": 1940

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
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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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,461
Across
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Howells's Lapham : SILAS
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Lyra : HARP
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Kern hit song : WHO
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Go out with a rush : ERUPT
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___ about (approximately) : ONOR
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Backpack, e.g. : GEAR
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Shire of films : TALIA
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Harbach of songdom : OTTO
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Hot stuff from Mongibello : LAVA
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Underground rarity? : SQUAREROOT
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Done : OVER
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Man without a country : NOLAN
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Ancient ascetic : ESSENE
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Haggard heroine : SHE
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Emulate Daedalus : FLY
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H.M. Pulham et al. : ESQS
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Eastern temple : PAGODA
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Employed : SITUATED
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Brazilian territory : AMAPA
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Fled : RAN
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Sharp crest : ARETE
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Germane : RELEVANT
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Indo-Europeans : ARYANS
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His ___ (the nabob) : NIBS
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Palindromic word : ERE
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"Mighty ___ a Rose" : LAK
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Star of "The Bank Dick": 1940 : FIELDS
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Stage remark : ASIDE
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Prefix with bodies : ANTI
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Round footballer? : CIRCLEBACK
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Sheepskin : ROAN
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Music halls : ODEA
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"He's ___ card": Dryden : ASURE
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Pay to play : ANTE
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Kind of tide : NEAP
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Gildersleeve's nephew : LEROY
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___ Moines : DES
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Hill's partner : DALE
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Wafers : SNAPS
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Shooting sites : SETS
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A neighbor of Jordan : IRAQ
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Doozie : LULU
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Of bees : APIAN
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Susskind guest? : STAROFDAVID
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This follows two hips : HOORAY
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Author Myrer : ANTON
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Sunday section, for short : ROTO
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P.G.A. qualifying round? : PROTEST
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Thread pattern : WEAVE
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Port : HAVEN
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"___ Ben Jonson!": J. Young : ORARE
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Explanatory notes : GLOSSARY
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Cinders of comics : ELLA
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Four-handed poker games? : SQUAREDEALS
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Gaff : SPAR
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Harness section : HAME
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Alike, to Aloys : EGAL
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Kindergarten word : EIN
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Poor pigskin defense? : OPENLINE
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Rested one's feet : SAT
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Shade of green : TEAL
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Mongibello : ETNA
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Writing surface : DESK
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Dispensers of t.l.c. : RNS
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Flee : ABSCOND
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Husk : ARIL
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Flee : ESCAPE
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Electrical unit : FARAD
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"___ ear ... " : INONE
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Les ___-Unis : ETATS
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Of a region : AREAL
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He played Barnaby Jones : EBSEN
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Concept : IDEA
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Surrounding quality : AURA
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Cut short : CROP
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Low islands : KEYS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 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.

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