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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Tuesday, May 12, 1981

68-Across : T.R.'s "big ___"

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 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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W
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,508
Across
1
Comic's offering : GAG
4
"Wrap-session" item : SARAN
9
More suitable : APTER
14
Mine output : ORE
15
___ de menthe : CREME
16
Fortitude : NERVE
17
Pig pad : PEN
18
Attacks : HASAT
19
Used a dish towel : DRIED
20
Divine locale : SEVENTHHEAVEN
23
Outer edge : RIM
24
Pub drinks : ALES
25
Superlative suffix : EST
26
Impenetrably hard : ADAMANT
29
Type of admiral : REAR
31
Cole or Turner : NAT
32
Done, to Keats : OER
34
"Two hearts that beat ___" : ASONE
38
Divine locale : THEGARDENOFEDEN
43
Pliny was one : ELDER
44
Church bench : PEW
45
Pop : DAD
46
Rivers of Spain : RIOS
49
Secures : ANCHORS
52
Shade tree : ELM
54
Engrossed : RAPT
56
Something to lend : EAR
57
Divine protector : GUARDIANANGEL
61
Vitro di ___ (Venetian glassware) : TRINA
62
Calcareous deposit : LOESS
63
Pledge : VOW
65
Israeli statesman : BEGIN
66
Actress Janis: 1889-1956 : ELSIE
67
Chemical suffix : ENE
68
T.R.'s "big ___" : STICK
69
Ponselle and Bonheur : ROSAS
70
This is not gross : NET
Down
1
Dems.' opposition : GOP
2
War god : ARES
3
Produced : GENERATED
4
Preliminary draft : SCHEMA
5
Irish isle : ARAN
6
Declared anew : RESTATED
7
He had "Night Visitors" : AMAHL
8
Lower : NETHER
9
"On a wing ___ prayer" : ANDA
10
Wayward : PERVERSE
11
Attempts : TRIES
12
Occurrence : EVENT
13
Stoplight color : RED
21
Pep : VIM
22
Opposite of WNW : ESE
26
Poker stake : ANTE
27
Arlene or Roald : DAHL
28
Neither's chaser : NOR
30
Air arm: Abbr. : AAF
33
Corded fabric : REP
35
Ration-days phrase at service stations : ODDOREVEN
36
Not far : NEAR
37
Football positions : ENDS
39
Branch of languages including English : GERMANIC
40
Uris character : ARI
41
Quality admired by finical people : NEATNESS
42
Possess : OWN
47
Fort ___, Calif. : ORD
48
Ketch or sloop : SAILER
50
Burns myrrh : CENSES
51
Crone : HAG
52
Heron : EGRET
53
Pirandello : LUIGI
55
Francesca's lover : PAOLO
58
File's companion : RANK
59
Land mass : ASIA
60
The ___ Ranger : LONE
61
Recipe initials : TBS
64
Type of blanket : WET

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

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