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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Monday, January 6, 1986

2-Down : Indochinese area

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.68, Missing: { G J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, 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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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,208
Across
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Séance sound : RAP
4
Subject : TOPIC
9
Airport in Chicago : OHARE
14
Black bird : ANI
15
Entangle : SNARL
16
Kind of candle : ROMAN
17
Letterhead abbr. : INC
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Purses : POCKETBOOKS
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Purpose : SAKE
22
Nicholas, e.g. : TSAR
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Joint : KNEE
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Takes everything out : EMPTIES
27
Caucasian of China : NOSU
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Upon : ONTO
30
Halted legally : ESTOPPED
34
Sources of cocoa : CACAOS
36
Army chow : MESS
37
Old Danish money : ORA
38
Printers' needs : INKS
39
Assist : AID
40
Year in the reign of Pope Gregory I : DCII
41
Kind of hold : TOE
42
Riga native : LETT
44
Israeli coin : SHEKEL
46
Begs : ENTREATS
48
Top-notch : AONE
49
Movie dog : ASTA
50
Irene Castle dance : ONESTEP
53
Bridge : SPAN
56
Religious image : ICON
58
Always : EVER
59
Tool for Penrod : POCKETKNIFE
63
Assam silkworm : ERI
64
Member of the wedding : USHER
65
French school : ECOLE
66
Mexican uncle : TIO
67
Those in want : NEEDY
68
Patron saint of France : DENYS
69
Finished: Poet. : OER
Down
1
Elevate : RAISE
2
Indochinese area : ANNAM
3
Sneak thief : PICKPOCKET
4
Recipe abbr. : TSP
5
Lennon's widow : ONO
6
Treaties : PACTS
7
Irritates : IRKS
8
Purified : CLEANSED
9
Globe : ORB
10
Connection : HOOKUP
11
Thebes deity : AMON
12
Roué : RAKE
13
Start of the Bay State motto : ENSE
19
Jogs : TROTS
21
Lab heaters : ETNAS
25
Japanese admiral : ITO
26
Dawn goddess : EOS
28
Mayday's cousin : SOS
30
Gives forth : EMITS
31
Presidential prerogative : POCKETVETO
32
Clinton's canal : ERIE
33
Irish assembly : DAIL
34
Quote : CITE
35
Soon : ANON
39
Besieged : ATTACKED
40
Thick : DENSE
42
"___ Misérables" : LES
43
"And thus shall ye ___ ... ": Ex. 12:11 : EATIT
44
___ José, Costa Rica : SAN
45
Farm tool : HOE
47
Tiered : RANKED
50
Tear-jerker : ONION
51
Strange : EERIE
52
Earlier : PRIOR
53
Whirled : SPUN
54
Sit for Sargent : POSE
55
Ail, in a way : ACHE
57
Twice halved : ONCE
60
Suffix with quack or witch : ERY
61
Ointment spoiler : FLY
62
Some M.I.T. alumni : EES

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

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