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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Friday, March 10, 1967

68-Across : Comedown.

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { F H J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
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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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,418
Across
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Supplant. : REPLACE
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Having left a will. : TESTATE
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Puzzles. : ENIGMAS
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Supervised a game. : UMPIRED
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Surface layers. : VENEERS
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Logrolling. : BIRLING
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Cassowary. : EMU
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Scorch. : SEAR
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Swim. : NATATE
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Printer's problem. : TYPO
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Grommet. : EYELET
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Lordly home. : MANSION
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Recondite. : DEEP
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Named. : CITED
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Dreamy composition for the piano. : NOCTURNE
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Ineffectual. : USELESS
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Resounding. : PEALING
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Gave in. : RELENTED
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Favor. : BLESS
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Seat ___. : BELT
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Surround. : ENCLOSE
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Fastens again. : RETIES
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One of the Delanos. : SARA
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Peanut. : GOOBER
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Poet's measure. : IAMB
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Retriever. : DOG
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Memory gap. : AMNESIA
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Offensive. : NOISOME
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Health measure. : DIETING
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Spanish "Stephen." : ESTEBAN
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Quaint. : STRANGE
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Comedown. : DESCENT
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Build a barricade. : REVET
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Foe. : ENEMY
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Popular kind of girl. : PINUP
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Enormous: Abbr. : LGE
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Iowa city. : AMES
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Lurch. : CAREEN
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Classroom assignments. : ESSAYS
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Old boat. : TUB
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High rank. : EMINENCE
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Little fish. : SPRAT
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Joust. : TILT
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Opera feature. : ARIA
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Habitation. : TENT
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Rim. : EDGE
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Harness part. : REIN
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Menu item. : OMELET
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Handhold. : LOOP
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British colony. : ADEN
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Memorable statesman. : DULLES
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Cleveland's lake. : ERIE
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Austrian river. : ENNS
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Cribbage board gear. : PEGS
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Restriction. : CURB
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Conversational comment. : ISEE
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William the bowman. : TELL
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Bills: Colloq. : TABS
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___ committee. : STEERING
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Dispatched. : SENT
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7th-cen. date. : DCII
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Inclined. : LEANED
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Diffuse through a membrane. : OSMOSE
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Synthetic plastic. : RESIN
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Type of house. : ADOBE
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Type of type. : ROMAN
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James Bond, for one. : AGENT
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Gallivants. : GADS
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Skip. : OMIT
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Unusual guy. : ONER
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Second of a series. : BETA
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Companion of pieces. : BITS
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Mellow. : AGE
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Dry, as wine. : SEC

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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