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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Monday, March 26, 1984

55-Down : Spiny-finned fish

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, 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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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,557
Across
1
Inspired with fear : AWED
5
Book of the Bible : ACTS
9
Taxi driver : CABBY
14
Nobelist in Physics: 1922 : BOHR
15
Hudson Bay Indian : CREE
16
Kukla's pal : OLLIE
17
Tender ears : SWEETCORN
19
Haley book : ROOTS
20
Girls' ingredients : SUGARANDSPICE
22
Slatterns : SLUTS
23
Emerged victorious : WON
24
Owns : HAS
27
"___ Misérables" : LES
28
Scull implement : OAR
29
Opp. of SSW : NNE
32
Kazan : ELIA
34
Love apples : TOMATOES
36
Alston Anderson novel: 1965 : ALLGODSCHILDREN
40
Skunks : POLECATS
41
Word with slip or swipe : SIDE
42
Pig pad : STY
43
Aunt, in Avila : TIA
44
Chem. site : LAB
47
Onager : ASS
48
Mayday relative : SOS
49
Prepare fare for an affair : CATER
51
Boys' ingredients : PUPPYDOGTAILS
56
Panza's Dapple : BURRO
57
Drill sergeant's command : ABOUTFACE
59
Queue : BRAID
60
The ___ Lady (Margaret Thatcher) : IRON
61
Fibber : LIAR
62
Welsh, e.g. : CELTS
63
Lucid : SANE
64
Icelandic literary work : EDDA
Down
1
Coll. degrees : ABS
2
Rolls 'em in the aisles : WOWS
3
Caesar's "Alas!" : EHEU
4
Remains : DREGS
5
Accumulate : ACCRUE
6
Some Yugoslavs : CROATS
7
Sea birds : TERNS
8
Remit : SEND
9
Sergeant's right-hand man : CORPORAL
10
Medicine prepared from the aloe : ALOIN
11
Political group : BLOC
12
Seize the bait : BITE
13
O.K. : YES
18
Kind of story : TALL
21
Hindu pundit : SWAMI
24
Mounds : HEAPS
25
Apportion : ALLOT
26
Inane : SILLY
28
"___, That Kiss," 1931 song : OOH
29
Water lifter : NORIA
30
Requires : NEEDS
31
Serfs in Ethelred's day : ESNES
33
Mature : AGE
34
Cousins of normal schs. : TCS
35
N.F.L. scores : TDS
37
Eight-limbed animals : OCTOPODS
38
The Bumsteads' dog : DAISY
39
Dep. : STA
44
Middle of an atoll : LAGOON
45
Make harmonious : ATTUNE
46
Rhythm : BEAT
48
Pole on a ship : SPRIT
49
Mongoose's enemy : COBRA
50
Place for a bayonet : RIFLE
51
Unadulterated : PURE
52
Soviet river : URAL
53
Podium : DAIS
54
___ an egg (bombed) : LAID
55
Spiny-finned fish : SCAD
56
English TV letters : BBC
58
Time division : ERA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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