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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Thursday, September 3, 1981

29-Across : Sacred

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Lou Sabin has 108 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 29 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Louis Sabin is an alias for Lou Sabin.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,622
Across
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Clerical vestments : ALBS
5
___ père ou fils : DUMAS
10
Fellow : CHAP
14
Tabby talk : MEOW
15
Pointless : INANE
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Aura : HALO
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Herman or George Herman : BABE
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Portents for Pompey : OMINA
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"___ Your Face Before Me," 1937 song : ISEE
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Diabolic : INFERNAL
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Algonquian gelt : WAMPUM
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Jackets : ETONS
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Most ashen : PALEST
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He "hit 'em where they ain't" : WILLIEKEELER
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Sacred : HOLY
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States of health, prosperity, etc. : WELFARES
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Gobbled : ATE
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Mixes : STIRS
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Ordinal-number ender : ETH
38
26-inning game, e.g. : MARATHON
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Modern hairdo : AFRO
42
St. Louis Browns Hall of Famer : GEORGESISLER
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Like a bright night : STARRY
48
Brooklyn's "Kentucky Colonel" : REESE
49
Run the 100 : SPRINT
50
Epithet for Napoleon, with "the" : CORSICAN
53
___ Man McGinnity : IRON
54
Cremonan violinmaker : AMATI
56
French battle site in W.W. II : STLO
57
Catches : GETS
58
Magic maker : GENIE
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Labor : TOIL
60
Cozy spot : NEST
61
Veeps, mgrs., etc. : EXECS
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Sp. miss : SRTA
Down
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Prefix with dextrous : AMBI
2
Slender : LEAN
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"Rapid Robert" of no-hit fame : BOBFELLER
4
In a very nice way : SWEETLY
5
Canadian quints' name : DIONNE
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Reveal : UNMASK
7
Junk or fan follower : MAIL
8
Massachusetts cape : ANN
9
Shoreline protectors : SEAWALLS
10
Foolish fancy : CHIMERA
11
Metal straps : HASPS
12
Alaskan native : ALEUT
13
Cowper creation : POEM
21
Louis XIV was one : ROI
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"A" to Moishe : ALEF
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Earl or duke : PEER
26
Sound of a solid hit : WHAM
27
Jot : IOTA
28
Buck ___, baseball Hall of Famer : EWING
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Type of telescope : REFLECTOR
32
Antoine's "to be" : ETRE
33
Memorable baseball-mad restaurateur : SHOR
35
Deficit : SHORTAGE
36
Royalist of '76 : TORY
39
Versus : AGAINST
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Lottery prize : TERN
41
"A" on box scores : ASSISTS
43
Amatory : EROTIC
44
World ___ : SERIES
45
Plural endings : IES
46
Binge : SPREE
47
Meadowlands events : TROTS
49
Coach-to-batter gesture : SIGN
50
Malacca : CANE
51
Landed : ALIT
52
Piano theme song for Vincent Lopez : NOLA
55
"Super ___" (Lee Trevino) : MEX

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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