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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Wednesday, January 18, 1989

2-Down : Hold back

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 251 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, 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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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,316
Across
1
Cooking direction : SCALD
6
Lugosi or Bartók : BELA
10
Londoner's umbrella : GAMP
14
Pet name : SUGAR
15
Short story about Sadie Thompson : RAIN
16
River to the Caspian : URAL
17
Crossbeam : TRAVE
18
Vicinity : AREA
19
Penetrating preposition : INTO
20
Weapons in fisticuffs : BRASSKNUCKLES
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Litigate : SUE
24
Kind of meal : OAT
25
Of an ancient Arabian kingdom : SABEAN
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Forwarded : SENT
31
Tokyo's former name : EDO
34
Antiquer's activity : AGING
35
"It's ___ world": Dickens : AMAD
36
Tito was one : SLAV
37
Antitakeover protection for executives : GOLDENPARACHUTE
40
Woody Guthrie's son : ARLO
41
Medium for Monet : OILS
42
Poet Wystan Hugh ___ : AUDEN
43
Utter : SAY
44
Flying pest : GNAT
45
Does some tailoring : ALTERS
46
Aurora, to the Greeks : EOS
47
Tool for making holes : AWL
48
Like Bryan? : SILVERTONGUED
55
Hourglass filler : SAND
56
Cheap; miserly : NEAR
57
Writer Cobb : IRVIN
59
A third of thrice : ONCE
60
Season : SALT
61
Pee Wee of baseball : REESE
62
Expensive : DEAR
63
Cinders of comics : ELLA
64
Knight's weapon : LANCE
Down
1
Fast plane : SST
2
Hold back : CURB
3
Culture medium : AGAR
4
Volcanic material : LAVA
5
Horse trainer's method : DRESSAGE
6
Stopper of sorts : BRAKE
7
Merit : EARN
8
Kind of tenant? : LIEU
9
Copper city or S.A. boa : ANACONDA
10
Certain complex : GUILT
11
"Comus" composer : ARNE
12
Wrestlers' pads : MATS
13
Arafat's gp. : PLO
21
Heavenly heater : SUN
22
Krazy one in comics : KAT
25
Adventure tales : SAGAS
26
Marketplace : AGORA
27
Melville's ___ Budd : BILLY
28
Within: Comb. form : ENDO
29
Blue pigment : SMALT
30
Corn units : EARS
31
Give the slip to : ELUDE
32
Library gadget : DATER
33
Some are Dutch : OVENS
35
Samoan port : APIA
36
Close : SHUT
38
Stuff's partner : NONSENSE
39
Strumpet with a phone : CALLGIRL
44
N.Y.'s Cuomo : GOV
45
Wheat bristle : AWN
46
Church bigwig : ELDER
47
Main artery : AORTA
48
Sensible : SANE
49
Peruvian native of yore : INCA
50
Kind of estate : REAL
51
Like Bol of basketball : TALL
52
Plastics ingredient : UREA
53
Fifty-fifty : EVEN
54
Platter : DISC
55
Turf : SOD
58
Society-page word : NEE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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