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Lou Sabin
New York Times, Thursday, September 7, 1967
29-Across : City of the Grand Canal.
Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 298 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Lou Sabin has 108 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 29 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Louis Sabin is an alias for Lou Sabin.
1 S | 2 T | 3 A | 4 G | 5 S | 6 O | 7 A | 8 K | 9 S | 10 P | 11 E | 12 A | 13 R |
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14 H | U | G | O | 15 U | N | D | O | 16 E | A | T | M | E |
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17 A | L | A | W | 18 P | E | A | R | 19 E | T | N | O | N |
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20 W | I | N | N | 21 I | E | 22 M | A | 23 N | D | R | A | K | E |
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24 P | A | S | T | R | 25 Y | 26 N | O | L | O | |||||
27 A | M | O | 28 Y | 29 V | E | N | 30 I | 31 C | 32 E |
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33 G | 34 A | 35 Y | 36 B | L | A | D | E | 37 S | 38 T | I | T | H | E |
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39 L | I | S | A | 40 N | E | M | E | 41 A | 42 Z | E | A | L |
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43 O | D | E | T | 44 S | 45 L | E | A | P | 46 Y | E | A | R | S |
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47 W | A | R | M | E | 48 R | 49 N | O | T | E | |||||
50 O | W | E | 51 D | 52 F | I | T | 53 F | 54 U | 55 L | |||||
56 A | 57 L | 58 A | B | A | M | A | 59 N | 60 T | I | E | P | I | 61 N |
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62 R | O | B | I | N | 63 T | A | 64 B | U | 65 A | B | B | E |
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66 A | B | E | L | E | 67 U | S | E | D | 68 S | O | R | T |
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69 M | E | L | E | E | 70 M | A | D | E | 71 T | W | A | S |
© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,599
Across
1
Kind of party. : STAG
5
Drench. : SOAK
9
Trident. : SPEAR
14
French writer. : HUGO
15
Loosen. : UNDO
16
Words on a cake found by Alice. : EATME
17
"There ought to be ___." : ALAW
18
Pome. : PEAR
19
And not: Lat. : ETNON
20
Pooh. : WINNIE
22
Plant with forked root. : MANDRAKE
24
Napoleons. : PASTRY
26
___ contendere. : NOLO
27
Chinese port. : AMOY
29
City of the Grand Canal. : VENICE
33
Bons vivants of a kind. : GAYBLADES
38
Tenth part. : TITHE
39
Beth's cousin. : LISA
40
Ancient city of Argolis. : NEMEA
42
Ardor. : ZEAL
43
U.S. playwright. : ODETS
45
Calendar phenomena. : LEAPYEARS
47
Partner of fair. : WARMER
49
Observe. : NOTE
50
Was beholden (to). : OWED
52
Intermittent. : FITFUL
56
Wallace constituent. : ALABAMAN
60
Haberdashery item. : TIEPIN
62
Passenger in 36 Down. : ROBIN
63
Prohibition. : TABU
65
French churchman. : ABBE
66
Poplar tree. : ABELE
67
Worn. : USED
68
Nature. : SORT
69
Confused struggle. : MELEE
70
Arranged. : MADE
71
"___ brillig ... " : TWAS
Down
1
Literary light. : SHAW
2
Flower. : TULIP
3
Capital of Guam. : AGANA
4
Things to wear. : GOWNS
5
Caped flier. : SUPERMAN
6
First in line. : ONE
7
First of his kind. : ADAM
8
Words of Allah. : KORAN
9
Small grain. : SEEDLET
10
Give one's trade to. : PATRONIZE
11
Sight from Taormina. : ETNA
12
In a frenzy. : AMOK
13
Gallic name. : RENE
21
Type of type: Abbr. : ITAL
23
Relative of Sept. : NOV
25
Mountain call. : YODEL
28
Red Sea republic. : YEMEN
30
Willow genus. : ITEA
31
Burn up. : CHAR
32
Fish dish. : EELS
33
Light up. : GLOW
34
Verdi role. : AIDA
35
Nieuport's river. : YSER
36
TV vehicle. : BATMOBILE
37
___ Azov. : SEAOF
41
Talent. : APTITUDE
44
University of the South. : SEWANEE
46
Abominable Snowman. : YETI
48
Ad ___ (to the point): Lat. : REM
51
It's a fact. : DATUM
53
Food galore. : FEAST
54
Violinist's stroke. : UPBOW
55
Constellation. : LIBRA
56
Ancient Syria. : ARAM
57
Ear part. : LOBE
58
Son of 7 Down. : ABEL
59
Space group. : NASA
61
Traps. : NETS
64
Board's companion. : BED
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 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.