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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Monday, July 11, 1988

65-Across : Cover-up name

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 4.59, Missing: { F J Q U X Y }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,125
Across
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Word of regret : ALAS
5
Peacock in the sky : PAVO
9
Distort : WARP
13
Big cat : LION
14
Domesticated : TAMED
15
Finished : OVER
16
Poet Pound : EZRA
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Coeur d'___, Idaho : ALENE
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"Splitsville" : RENO
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Slogans : CATCHWORDS
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Twerp's cousin : DRIP
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Munro pen name : SAKI
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Japanese emigrant to the U.S. : ISSEI
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Typical De Mille film : EPIC
28
Precincts : AREAS
31
Turf : SOD
34
Transfer design : DECAL
36
Fall flower : ASTER
38
Upon : ATOP
40
Kind of colony : PENAL
42
Volume : TOME
43
Havana product : CIGAR
45
Feasts : DINES
47
First word of "Home, Sweet Home" : MID
48
Composer Franck : CESAR
50
Ardor : ZEAL
51
The Queen of ___ : SHEBA
53
One-third of thrice : ONCE
57
Flourished : GREW
60
Rallying cries : WATCHWORDS
64
Prefix with plane : AERO
65
Cover-up name : ALIAS
66
Change the décor : REDO
67
Two of a kind : PAIR
68
Leghorns' lodgings : ROOST
69
Post : MAIL
70
Raced : SPED
71
Anagram for node : DONE
72
A Peter Pan foe : SMEE
Down
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Pianist Templeton : ALEC
2
Doolittle and Minnelli : LIZAS
3
Corporeal channel : AORTA
4
Light meal : SNACK
5
___ Alto : PALO
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Melting-pot goal : AMERICANIZATION
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Sells : VENDS
8
Ukrainian city : ODESSA
9
Most talkative : WORDIEST
10
Claim confidently : AVER
11
Italian painter: 1575-1642 : RENI
12
Support : PROP
14
Marble : TAW
20
Hastened : HIED
24
Historic period : ERA
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Vim : PEP
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Chilled : ICED
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Mighty mite : ATOM
30
Half: Prefix : SEMI
31
Black Hawk was one : SAC
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Auricular : OTIC
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Venetian ruler : DOGE
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Path : LANE
37
Embarrassed : RED
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Countersign : PASSWORD
41
Meadow : LEA
44
Short cheer : RAH
46
Street sign : SLOW
49
Bounty : REWARD
52
Bear in Kipling tales : BALOO
54
Standards : NORMS
55
Peaches and ___ : CREAM
56
Cantor or Murphy : EDDIE
57
Openings : GAPS
58
Harvest : REAP
59
Clinton's canal : ERIE
61
Something tried in a court : CASE
62
F.D.R.'s successor : HST
63
Underfoot item : SOLE

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

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