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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Friday, April 21, 1978

4-Across : Bit of mistletoe

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 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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B
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D
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,478
Across
1
Start of a cheer : HIP
4
Bit of mistletoe : SPRIG
9
Do some horse trading : SWAP
13
Siderite and uraninite : ORES
15
Depart : LEAVE
16
Shape of a funnel : CONE
17
Stock-price factor : PASTPERFORMANCE
20
This may be simple or compound : INTEREST
21
Antonym for 15 Across : ENTER
22
Behindhand : LATE
23
Raucous noise : BLAT
25
Emulate "sister Kate" : SHIMMY
28
Dry as dust : ARID
29
Help! : SOS
32
Prefix with plane or dynamics : AERO
33
Heaven: Comb. form : URANO
34
And the like: Abbr. : ETC
35
Stock-price factor : PRESENTNETWORTH
39
Free electron : ION
40
Specks : MOTES
41
Juniors' dance : PROM
42
J.F.K.'s predecessor : DDE
43
City south of Moscow : OREL
44
Where Fort Bliss is : ELPASO
46
Pre-eminent : STAR
47
Vivacity : BRIO
48
Soap plant : AMOLE
51
Hoffa was one : TEAMSTER
55
Stock-price factor : FUTUREPROSPECTS
58
Succulent plant : ALOE
59
Make amends : ATONE
60
Masse or carom : SHOT
61
Palustrine plant : REED
62
Assessor : RATER
63
Former prime minister of Burma : UNU
Down
1
Indian of northeast Arizona : HOPI
2
Land south of the Caspian Sea : IRAN
3
Mosquito or gnat : PEST
4
Between rainy and snowy : SLEETY
5
Independently : PERSE
6
Vessel for Huck Finn : RAFT
7
___ Andric, Nobelist in Literature: 1961 : IVO
8
Neighbor of Belg. : GER
9
Skimp or scrimp : SCANT
10
Spoiled child's word : WONT
11
Suffix with void and avoid : ANCE
12
Marquess, for one : PEER
14
___ fire (phenomenon seen at sea) : STELMOS
18
Kensington vehicle : PRAM
19
Ewes' milieu : MEADOW
23
Burns's bonny slopes : BRAES
24
Washday by-product : LINT
25
Toothsome : SAPID
26
Character in "I, Claudius" : HEROD
27
Mezzo-soprano Dalis : IRENE
28
Dacron's relative : ARNEL
29
Saw of a sawfish : SERRA
30
Preminger et al. : OTTOS
31
Sap, in slanguage : SCHMO
33
State : UTTER
36
Ham on the boards : EMOTER
37
Ibsen character : NORA
38
Contests : OPPOSES
44
Utensil on a pencil : ERASER
45
Like a wet rag : LIMP
46
Veered : SLUED
47
"I'd rather see than ___!": Burgess : BEONE
48
Not near at all : AFAR
49
West Point mascot : MULE
50
Tribe that once joined with the Missouri : OTOE
51
Fox or dog follower : TROT
52
Exclamation of distaste : TCHU
53
Visored cap : ETON
54
Between Q and V : RSTU
56
Type of ring or drum : EAR
57
"Harper Valley" group : PTA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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