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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Thursday, December 4, 1980

15-Down : Mixed drink

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,349
Across
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Feather bearer : BIRD
5
Phony : SHAM
9
Vespid : WASP
13
Inspiration : IDEA
14
Despises : HATES
16
Barbados ___, ornamental plant : ALOE
17
Use the phone : DIAL
18
Asian range : ALTAI
19
Town on the Vire : STLO
20
What every belle had in the Gay Nineties : SOLIDFOUNDATION
23
"___ Magic," 1948 song : ITS
24
Before, to Spenser : ERE
25
Plackets : SLITS
28
"___ exchange" (ring event) : SOCK
30
Pub liquid : ALE
33
Monotonous song : CHANT
34
Emanation : AURA
35
Stevedore's milieu : PIER
36
Any all-pro defensive guard : ROCKOFGIBRALTAR
39
Change of a five : ONES
40
Bits under the banquet table : ORTS
41
Lettuce, cabbage, etc. : BUCKS
42
Join : WED
43
Novelists Levin and Wolfert : IRAS
44
Forward : PUSHY
45
Priestly robe : ALB
46
Casey's weapon : BAT
47
Where osculation causes skill in adulation : THEBLARNEYSTONE
56
Merit : EARN
57
Extinguish : DOUSE
58
W.W. II group : AXIS
59
Otherwise : ELSE
60
Church V.I.P. : ELDER
61
Easter's predecessor : LENT
62
Player on the range : DEER
63
Rents : LETS
64
Joint often clipped on a gridiron : KNEE
Down
1
One club, two hearts, etc. : BIDS
2
Personal: Prefix : IDIO
3
Type of estate : REAL
4
His watches may be for all time : DALI
5
Colliers' surroundings : SHAFTS
6
Angelic headgear : HALOS
7
Aleutian isle : ATTU
8
Type of disposition : MEAN
9
Squander : WASTE
10
Trebles, in Toscana : ALTI
11
Type of flight : SOLO
12
León laborer : PEON
15
Mixed drink : SIDECAR
21
Idem : DITTO
22
Jan de Hartog's "The Little ___" : ARK
25
Glistened : SHONE
26
Spiked the punch : LACED
27
Signs : INKS
28
Diamonds and hearts : SUITS
29
Globes : ORBS
30
Gee follower : AITCH
31
Needing a caulking : LEAKY
32
Misses the fly : ERRS
33
Brag : CROW
34
Taj Mahal site : AGRA
35
___ fours : PLUS
37
Interdicted : FORBADE
38
Adjoins : ABUTS
43
Roth's "___ Cry Tomorrow" : ILL
44
Bursars, at times : PAYERS
45
Doubleday : ABNER
46
Harassed : BESET
47
___ off (riled up) : TEED
48
Robust : HALE
49
Gaelic : ERSE
50
Drummer's prolonged rat-a-tat : ROLL
51
Sky-clad : NUDE
52
"Four-letter word for psychotherapy": Hodgins : TALK
53
The yoke is on them : OXEN
54
Spot card : NINE
55
Town near Padua : ESTE

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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