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Lou Sabin
New York Times, Monday, March 7, 1988
60-Across : Flammable item
Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { B F J K Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 255 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
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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15 I | N | T | E | R | N | A | L | 16 P | O | S | S | E | T |
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17 T | E | R | T | I | A | R | Y | 18 L | A | S | C | A | R |
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19 E | R | A | 20 A | W | L | 21 R | I | D | 22 A | L | I |
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23 R | O | D | 24 E | 25 E | S | 26 S | E | N | 27 S | L | I | D |
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28 S | A | L | 29 A | D | 30 A | C | T | 31 P | A | N | E |
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32 S | H | A | 33 S | T | A | 34 O | A | T | E | N |
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35 A | 36 M | 37 P | 38 A | T | T | E | N | 39 D | S | 40 E | S | T |
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45 I | R | E | D | 46 S | E | N | 47 C | A | I | 48 R | 49 O | |||
50 T | A | S | S | 51 H | E | S | 52 S | E | 53 P | A | N | 54 S |
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55 A | L | E | 56 M | O | T | 57 N | I | 58 P | 59 V | A | L |
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60 T | I | N | 61 D | E | R | 62 L | E | V | E | 63 R | A | G | E |
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64 E | S | C | O | R | T | 65 A | V | E | R | A | G | E | D |
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66 S | T | E | E | L | Y | 67 P | A | R | T | N | E | R | S |
© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 13,999
Across
1
Communications : MESSAGES
9
Conducts : STEERS
15
At the core : INTERNAL
16
Hot milk-and-wine drink : POSSET
17
Of the third order : TERTIARY
18
East Indian sailor : LASCAR
19
Time period : ERA
20
Sharp tool : AWL
21
Disencumber : RID
22
Mohammed's son-in-law : ALI
23
Took a cab : RODE
25
Ruhr city : ESSEN
27
Went coasting : SLID
28
Side dish : SALAD
30
Take steps : ACT
31
Window section : PANE
32
___ daisy : SHASTA
34
Like some cakes : OATEN
35
Unit of elec. current : AMP
38
Goes to the meeting : ATTENDS
40
Id follower : EST
41
Skirt features : GORES
43
Judge twice : RETEST
45
Nettled : IRED
46
D.C. bigwig : SEN
47
Mubarak's capital : CAIRO
50
Soviet news source : TASS
51
"Siddhartha" author : HESSE
53
Spiders on stoves : PANS
55
Stein filler : ALE
56
Quip : MOT
57
Touch of winter : NIP
59
___ d'Or, town in Quebec : VAL
60
Flammable item : TINDER
62
Mechanical advantage : LEVERAGE
64
Singles-bar rarity : ESCORT
65
Reduced to a mean : AVERAGED
66
Adamant : STEELY
67
Scrooge and Marley : PARTNERS
Down
1
Clerical headdress : MITER
2
Juárez Januaries : ENEROS
3
"La ___," 1954 film : STRADA
4
Coterie : SET
5
"Nessun dorma," e.g. : ARIA
6
Caused corrosion : GNAWEDAT
7
British noblemen : EARLS
8
Vulpine : SLY
9
First-aid device : SPLINT
10
Natterjack : TOAD
11
Hook shape : ESS
12
Increase : ESCALATE
13
Straightens anew : REALINES
14
Grating : STRIDENT
21
Disavow : RECANT
24
Overhead rwys. : ELS
26
Glossy fabrics : SATEENS
27
Bad Ems, e.g. : SPA
29
Triumphant cries : AHAS
33
Lewis's "Main ___" : STREET
34
Greek peak : OSSA
35
Stirs up : AGITATES
36
Aesop, for one : MORALIST
37
Bearing : PRESENCE
39
Cheat : DECEIVER
42
Sullivan and Asner : EDS
44
Cant : TIP
46
Hospital bed jacket : SHORTY
48
Plunder : RAVAGE
49
Ass or catapult : ONAGER
52
Indy champ: 1983 : SNEVA
54
Luges : SLEDS
56
Blackbird : MERL
58
Impudent : PERT
61
Bambi's mother : DOE
62
Vanishing seat : LAP
63
Took charge of : RAN
Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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