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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Tuesday, February 25, 1986

44-Across : Horse's gait

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F K Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,258
Across
1
Paint messily : DAUB
5
Used a besom : SWEPT
10
Fuji flow in 1707 : LAVA
14
Armbone : ULNA
15
Horse opera : OATER
16
Greek hero : AJAX
17
Lighthouse feature : SPIRALSTAIRCASE
20
Judge : ESTIMATE
21
Gazed intently : PEERED
22
Twelve fifty-nine follower : ONE
23
Pleased as Punch : GLAD
24
Restrains : DETERS
28
Finishing nail : BRAD
29
Chemical suffix : ANE
32
Roman courtyards : ATRIA
33
O'Casey or Connery : SEAN
34
Step ___ (accelerate) : ONIT
35
Member of a Moslem order : WHIRLINGDERVISH
38
Observe : NOTE
39
Entre ___ : NOUS
40
McPherson or Mann : AIMEE
41
N.D.-to-Ala. direction : SSE
42
Egg, to Cato : OVUM
43
Where helicopters hover : MIDAIR
44
Horse's gait : TROT
45
Bunk : BED
46
___ speaking (group recitation) : CHORAL
49
Certitude : SURENESS
54
Banker's offer : REVOLVINGCREDIT
56
Russian sea : ARAL
57
Pierre's school : ECOLE
58
Pearl Mosque site : AGRA
59
What Watson drives : BALL
60
Drain : SEWER
61
Adolescent : TEEN
Down
1
Actress Eleonora : DUSE
2
Yodel land : ALPS
3
Fixed amount : UNIT
4
Italian seaport : BARI
5
Large gannets : SOLANS
6
Squander : WASTE
7
Feminine ending : ETTE
8
Kind of soup : PEA
9
W.W. I craft : TRIPLANE
10
Tied : LACED
11
Not fully closed : AJAR
12
Potter's creation : VASE
13
Fired : AXED
18
Ethically neutral : AMORAL
19
Scan tomes : READ
23
Alumni, for short : GRADS
24
" ... ___ early light" : DAWNS
25
Character of a people : ETHOS
26
Stale : TRITE
27
Celts' land : EIRE
28
Moslem female V.I.P. : BEGUM
29
Life; soul : ANIMA
30
Japanese-American : NISEI
31
An anesthetic : ETHER
33
Pig's protruding feature : SNOUT
34
Roman poet : OVID
36
Entails : INVOLVES
37
Commando : RAIDER
42
Spoken : ORAL
43
British dry-goods merchant : MERCER
44
Scandinavian giant or dwarf : TROLL
45
G.I.'s "alarm clock" : BUGLE
46
Complain : CRAB
47
Queen on Olympus : HERA
48
Famed office : OVAL
49
Mountain cap : SNOW
50
Straight, at the bar : NEAT
51
Advantage : EDGE
52
Paterfamilias : SIRE
53
Ollie's sidekick : STAN
55
Diamond, to a fence : ICE

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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