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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Friday, January 13, 1978

31-Down : Attack

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,380
Across
1
Southpaw's pitching arm : LEFT
5
Porches around an agora : STOAS
10
Outwit : FOIL
14
Gig rig : OARS
15
Cod : TORSK
16
Anybody's follower : ELSE
17
Triskaidekaphobia : DREADOFTHIRTEEN
20
Supplicates : ENTREATS
21
Reared : RAISED
22
Small coins: Abbr. : CTS
23
In the center : AMID
24
Uses Western Union : CABLES
28
Rack's partner : RUIN
29
Harvest goddess : OPS
32
"___ a Grecian Urn" : ODEON
33
Students' needs : PENS
34
Windy one : OBOE
35
Unlucky diner : THIRTEENTHGUEST
38
Roman garb : TOGA
39
Diagnostic aid : XRAY
40
Lost : ATSEA
41
Air hero : ACE
42
Treble or bass : VIOL
43
State : ASSERT
44
Petty officer, for short : BOSN
45
Prior mo. : ULT
46
Mysterious : OCCULT
49
With ammo removed : UNLOADED
54
1:00 P.M., Fort Dix : THIRTEENHUNDRED
56
North of Miss., Ala. and Ga. : TENN
57
Fountain nymph : NAIAD
58
Pub-game tool : DART
59
Hasn't paid up : OWES
60
Aesthete's forte : TASTE
61
One of the Alcotts : AMOS
Down
1
Pay dirt : LODE
2
Merit : EARN
3
Worry : FRET
4
Pre-Lenin ruler : TSAR
5
Ermines : STOATS
6
Homesteads, British style : TOFTS
7
Table scraps : ORTS
8
Tree : ASH
9
Minor dispute : SKIRMISH
10
Rank : FETID
11
Sunday sounds in Mexico City : OLES
12
Words of understanding : ISEE
13
Give for a time : LEND
18
Upright : DECENT
19
Type of forest : RAIN
23
Unk's wife : AUNTY
24
Surplice : COTTA
25
Kind of committee : ADHOC
26
Neutral color : BEIGE
27
Modern variation of Laura : LORA
28
Nephric : RENAL
29
Pinguid : OBESE
30
Problem or model : POSER
31
Attack : SETAT
33
Name of fame in Argentina : PERON
34
Sad politicians : OUTS
36
In being : EXISTENT
37
Alphonse's friend : GASTON
42
Unit of electrical force : VOLT
43
Refer (to) : ALLUDE
44
Author of "The Cotter's Saturday Night" : BURNS
45
Remove a fedora : UNHAT
46
Palindromic name : OTTO
47
Use maxilla and mandible : CHEW
48
Moves, to Fellini : CINE
49
Les Etats-___ : UNIS
50
Egyptian skink : ADDA
51
Sixty grains : DRAM
52
Architect Saarinen : EERO
53
Skeeter beaters : DDTS
55
Degree for a NASA worker : EAA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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