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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Monday, May 15, 1989

5-Across : Captures

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.77, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,433
Across
1
Competent : ABLE
5
Captures : BAGS
9
Self : EGO
12
All ___ Day (Nov. 2) : SOULS
14
Cupid : EROS
15
Phone : CALL
16
Ragtime round dance : TURKEYTROT
18
Chills and fever : AGUE
19
Feasted : ATE
20
Stale : DATED
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Stubborn ones : MULES
22
Low-lying areas : VALES
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Hearty's partner : HALE
24
Motor : ENGINE
27
Solidly built : THICKSET
31
River to the Firth of Clyde : DOON
32
Stage whisper : ASIDE
33
Kind of hop : CAR
34
Readied for the canine show : GROOMED
37
Fix up an antique : RESTORE
39
Suffix with host : ESS
40
Wear away : ERODE
42
Reign : RULE
43
Come out again : REEMERGE
45
Coins of Poland : ZLOTYS
47
Adjusts : FITS
48
Opposite of fancy : PLAIN
50
Base on ___ (walk) : BALLS
52
Treatise : TRACT
53
Owns : HAS
56
Pitcher Hershiser : OREL
57
Get cold feet after accepting a dare : CHICKENOUT
59
Not so many : LESS
60
Experience : HAVE
61
Course of travel : ROUTE
62
Kind of can or tray : ASH
63
Followers of Adam : ITES
64
Forehead : BROW
Down
1
Movie dog : ASTA
2
Boxing contest : BOUT
3
Entice : LURE
4
B.P.O.E. member : ELK
5
Davis or Midler : BETTE
6
Checks : ARRESTS
7
Kern's "Very ___, Eddie" : GOOD
8
Fast plane : SST
9
Holder of 21 merit badges : EAGLESCOUT
10
Mucilage : GLUE
11
Bullring cries : OLES
13
Auto style : SEDAN
15
Close a seam : CAULK
17
President Taft's alma mater : YALE
21
Sprays that stop muggers : MACES
22
"In ___ veritas" : VINO
23
Secrete : HIDE
24
Garden tool : EDGER
25
Some Scandinavians : NORSE
26
Horripilation : GOOSEFLESH
28
Employ : HIRE
29
Ahead of schedule : EARLY
30
Oak and cedar : TREES
32
"Dies like ___! March on ... " : ADOG
35
Encounters : MEETS
36
Misses the mark : ERRS
38
Disney film: 1982 : TRON
41
Strip : DEPRIVE
44
Factories : MILLS
45
Baseball's Wheat : ZACK
46
Metric measure : LITER
49
Val et al. : LACES
50
Gaucho's weapon : BOLA
51
War god : ARES
52
This and ___ : THAT
53
Sixty minutes : HOUR
54
Stanley Steamer : AUTO
55
Mulligan or slumgullion : STEW
57
Greek letter : CHI
58
___ Hill, San Francisco : NOB

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