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Sidney L. Robbins
New York Times, Tuesday, December 15, 1981
46-Down : Most melancholy
Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { M Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, 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.
1 C | 2 H | 3 A | 4 P | 5 S | 6 C | 7 O | 8 L | 9 D | 10 W | 11 I | 12 L | 13 D |
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14 L | O | S | E | 15 E | A | G | E | R | 16 I | D | E | A |
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17 A | L | T | A | 18 N | U | R | S | E | 19 D | E | N | Y |
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20 W | E | I | G | 21 H | T | L | E | S | S | 22 N | E | S | S | |
23 I | R | K | 24 S | O | N | |||||||||
25 F | 26 R | 27 O | 28 S | T | Y | 29 S | 30 A | I | D | 31 R | 32 A | 33 H |
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34 E | I | R | E | 35 O | I | D | E | A | 36 I | C | A |
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37 W | A | I | T | 38 I | 39 N | G | F | O | R | L | 40 E | F | T | Y |
41 E | T | O | 42 C | O | L | T | S | 43 K | L | E | E |
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44 R | A | N | 45 I | R | E | S | 46 B | 47 R | E | E | D | S |
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48 T | N | T | 49 E | L | I | |||||||||
50 W | 51 E | I | G | H | 52 T | 53 Y | S | U | B | 54 J | 55 E | 56 C | 57 T |
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58 R | E | A | R | 59 E | R | A | S | E | 60 E | C | R | U |
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61 E | L | S | E | 62 R | I | L | E | S | 63 S | H | A | N |
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64 S | L | E | D | 65 S | P | E | N | T | 66 T | O | G | A |
© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,725
Across
1
Fellow : CHAP
5
Berate : SCOLD
10
Like Bill Hickok : WILD
14
Suffer defeat : LOSE
15
Type of beaver : EAGER
16
Thought : IDEA
17
Ski resort in Utah : ALTA
18
Tend : NURSE
19
Ban : DENY
20
Astronauts know the gravity of this situation : WEIGHTLESSNESS
23
Vex : IRK
24
Heir, often : SON
25
Certain snowman : FROSTY
29
Port ___, Egypt : SAID
31
Cheer : RAH
34
Ireland, once : EIRE
35
Zoological suffix : OIDEA
36
City in Peru : ICA
37
Odets, this was your sting! : WAITINGFORLEFTY
41
War zone in the 40's : ETO
42
Prancers in the paddocks : COLTS
43
Swiss modernist artist : KLEE
44
Lost color : RAN
45
Angers : IRES
46
Raises cattle : BREEDS
48
Trinitrotoluene : TNT
49
Whitney : ELI
50
Lecture on tare and tret? : WEIGHTYSUBJECT
58
Kind of admiral : REAR
59
Rub out : ERASE
60
Tan color : ECRU
61
Otherwise : ELSE
62
Upsets : RILES
63
Mongol of SE Asia : SHAN
64
Dogboat : SLED
65
Worn out : SPENT
66
Robe of office : TOGA
Down
1
Type of hammer : CLAW
2
Pit : HOLE
3
Spumante city : ASTI
4
Wampum : PEAG
5
Guard : SENTRY
6
Use oakum : CAULK
7
Monster : OGRE
8
Relative of 25 Down : LESS
9
Costumed more stylishly : DRESSIER
10
Expand : WIDEN
11
December 13, e.g. : IDES
12
Camera part : LENS
13
Dennis, but not the Menace : DAY
21
Three-bagger, e.g. : HIT
22
Knotty : NODAL
25
Not so many : FEWER
26
Lariat : RIATA
27
Constellation : ORION
28
Tennis grouping : SET
29
Uses a bolter : SIFTS
30
Fusses : ADOS
31
Chassepot : RIFLE
32
Performed : ACTED
33
President nicknamed "Old Eight to Seven" : HAYES
35
Stare desirously : OGLE
38
Topper in a bakery : ICING
39
Winter storms : NORTHERS
40
Make do : EKE
46
Most melancholy : BLUEST
47
Josh : RIB
48
Weary : TIRED
49
Ruhr city : ESSEN
50
Open shaft for a staircase : WELL
51
Leisure : EASE
52
Stumble : TRIP
53
Where Albie Booth starred : YALE
54
Joke : JEST
55
Repeat : ECHO
56
Steep, rugged rock : CRAG
57
Sandwich filler : TUNA
58
In medias ___ : RES
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 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.