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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Monday, March 7, 1988

9-Across : Conducts

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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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 13,999
Across
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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
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Time period : ERA
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Sharp tool : AWL
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Disencumber : RID
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Mohammed's son-in-law : ALI
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Took a cab : RODE
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Ruhr city : ESSEN
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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
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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
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Clerical headdress : MITER
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Juárez Januaries : ENEROS
3
"La ___," 1954 film : STRADA
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Coterie : SET
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"Nessun dorma," e.g. : ARIA
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Caused corrosion : GNAWEDAT
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British noblemen : EARLS
8
Vulpine : SLY
9
First-aid device : SPLINT
10
Natterjack : TOAD
11
Hook shape : ESS
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Increase : ESCALATE
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Straightens anew : REALINES
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Grating : STRIDENT
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Disavow : RECANT
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Overhead rwys. : ELS
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Glossy fabrics : SATEENS
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Bad Ems, e.g. : SPA
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Triumphant cries : AHAS
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Lewis's "Main ___" : STREET
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Greek peak : OSSA
35
Stirs up : AGITATES
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Aesop, for one : MORALIST
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Bearing : PRESENCE
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Cheat : DECEIVER
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Sullivan and Asner : EDS
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Cant : TIP
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Hospital bed jacket : SHORTY
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Plunder : RAVAGE
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Ass or catapult : ONAGER
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Indy champ: 1983 : SNEVA
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Luges : SLEDS
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Blackbird : MERL
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Impudent : PERT
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Bambi's mother : DOE
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Vanishing seat : LAP
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Took charge of : RAN

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

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