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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Tuesday, April 19, 1977

5-Across : Tick follower

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.76, Missing: { G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,111
Across
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Type of type : PICA
5
Tick follower : TOCK
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Dada, for one : CULT
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Incense : ODOR
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Unicorn fish : UNIE
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One of the Osmonds : MARIE
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Listen : LENDANEAR
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Good-night girl : IRENE
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Biblical balance : ANEYEFORANEYE
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Ancient tyrant : NERO
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Refusal : NAY
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Arachnid's trap : WEB
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Part of Russia: Abbr. : SSR
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Evergreen : FIR
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Health resort : SPA
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Like some puzzles : HARD
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Protected an invention : PATENTED
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Biblical balance : ATOOTHFORATOOTH
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Moved over, courteously : MADEROOM
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Corrida cynosure : TORO
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Porker's place : STY
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"Have you ___ wool?" : ANY
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Academic inst. : SCH
46
Medico : DOC
47
Bizarre : ODD
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Grouch : CRAB
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Straight talk to a back-talker : NONEOFYOURLIP
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Jaguar's prey : TAPIR
57
Golden or Labrador : RETRIEVER
59
Group character : ETHOS
60
Lamb : ELIA
61
Rani's raiment : SARI
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Beef cut : LOIN
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Israeli airline : ELAL
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Saucy girl : SNIP
Down
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Ward heeler : POL
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Thought : IDEA
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Direct a helmsman : CONN
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Enoch of poetry : ARDEN
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Spinet fixers : TUNERS
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"And ___ the road" : ONEFOR
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Genoese greeting : CIAO
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Deborah of films : KERR
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V.I.P. at Albany : CAREY
10
Famed chemist : UREY
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Queue : LINE
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Driver's place : TEE
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Mosque turret : MINARET
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Affirmatives : AYES
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Loos or Louise : ANITA
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Explosive sounds : WHAMS
24
Nibble away : EATAT
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Ukrainian trading center : BRODY
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Distant : FAR
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Put up with : STOOD
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___ dollars : PETRO
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Type of committee : ADHOC
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John or Jane : DOE
33
Flower, for short : POM
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"Lov'd I ___ honour more" : NOT
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Wheelers and dealers : TRADERS
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Havlicek of the Celtics : HONDO
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Vaudeville star : FOY
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Scotland: Poet. : SCOTIA
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Of the thigh : CRURAL
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Mata ___ : HARI
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Weepy vegetable : ONION
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"___ 'Em All" : BLESS
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SEATO cousin : NATO
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Snake: Comb. form : OPHI
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Unfettered : FREE
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Scream : YELL
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First czar : IVAN
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Beautiful girl : PERI
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___ Aviv : TEL
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"As you sew, so shall you ___" : RIP

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

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