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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Monday, June 1, 1987

15-Across : Pepys's sign-off

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { K Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 59, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 3, 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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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,719
Across
1
Repeat : ECHO
5
Campus V.I.P. : PROF
9
___ Angelico : FRA
12
Horse or sheepskin : ROAN
13
Existent : ALIVE
14
Press wax : SEAL
15
Pepys's sign-off : ANDSOTOBED
17
Loathe : HATE
18
Thrust out : EJECT
19
Revolves : ROTATES
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Oak or elm : TREE
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Waste : TRASH
24
Cause of more fondness? : ABSENCE
27
Fall flowers : ASTERS
30
___ Elum Lake, Wash. : CLE
31
Worship : ADORE
33
Wife of Abraham : SARAH
34
Supplement : ADD
35
Viewpoint : SLANT
37
Life story, for short : BIO
38
Hauled : TOWED
41
Kefauver : ESTES
43
Terminate : END
44
Spartacus and Turner : SLAVES
46
Tasks for Junior : ERRANDS
48
Send as payment : REMIT
50
Writer Bombeck : ERMA
51
Fleeting fashion item : HEMLINE
53
Roles for Ferrer and Plummer : IAGOS
56
Mind : OBEY
57
Ease : BEDOFROSES
61
Cockcrow : MORN
62
Miracle : ANOMY
63
Kennel noise : YAPS
64
Printers' measures : ENS
65
Recolors : DYES
66
Comic Johnson : ARTE
Down
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Historic period : ERA
2
Ice-cream holder : CONE
3
Pilgrimage to Mecca : HADJ
4
Beginnings : ONSETS
5
Arafat's gp. : PLO
6
Josh : RIB
7
Open : OVERT
8
Hat for Mike Hammer : FEDORA
9
Type of mattress : FEATHERBED
10
Evaluate : RATE
11
Pub drinks : ALES
13
Is present at : ATTENDS
14
Calif. mount : SHASTA
16
Sheath of a leafstalk : OCREA
20
Soviet news agency : TASS
22
French school : ECOLE
24
Perfume base : ALDOL
25
Pans with hot coals to keep sleepers cozy : BEDWARMERS
26
Rub out : ERASE
28
Showers : RAINS
29
Aped blacksmiths : SHOD
30
Broadway smash since 1982 : CATS
32
___ nous : ENTRE
36
Scare : TERRIFY
39
Diarist John: 1620-1706 : EVELYN
40
Half: Prefix : DEMI
42
Philippine isle : SAMAR
45
Heyerdahl's pet duck : SINBAD
47
Japanese city bombed in W.W. II : NAGOYA
49
Wee : TEENY
51
Where you live : HOME
52
Black, to Byron : EBON
54
Glacial ridges : OSAR
55
'Twixt Aug. and Oct. : SEPT
58
Female kangaroo : DOE
59
Hindu incantations : OMS
60
Opposite of NNW : SSE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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