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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Tuesday, April 16, 1985

59-Down : Observe

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 51, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Lou Sabin has 108 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 29 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
Louis Sabin is an alias for Lou Sabin.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,943
Across
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Nice names : NOMS
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Tab : FLAP
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Poetic initials : TSE
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Baseball's Steady Eddie : LOPAT
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Scold severely : LASH
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Writer Shere ___ : HITE
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Kittle, Fisk et al. : CHICAGOWHITESOX
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Kind of horn : TIN
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Cockcrow : DAWN
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Of gulls : LARINE
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Lingerie items : STEPINS
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Moreover : ALSO
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Hairpiece, in slanguage : RUG
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Ex-hurlers Lee and Marv : GRISSOMS
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Plate umpire's tool : BROOM
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Part : ROLE
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Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
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Attention : EAR
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Most lean : SPAREST
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Drs.' group : AMA
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Fish-eating duck : SMEW
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Angers : IRES
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Kind of race : RELAY
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Dash a liquid upon : SPLATTER
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Bors or Kay : SIR
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Henry or Clare Boothe : LUCE
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Opened : STARTED
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Well-being : HEALTH
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Hack or Musial of baseball : STAN
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A Curie : EVE
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World Series champ: 1982 : STLOUISCARDINAL
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Snare : TRAP
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Approach : NEAR
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Places for roasts : OVENS
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Annapolis grad. : ENS
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DNA factor : GENE
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Tennis units : SETS
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___ game (pitcher's dream) : NOHIT
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Speak out : OPINE
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Singer Davis : MAC
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Where Yankees and Dodgers play : STADIUMS
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"And Quiet ___ the Don" : FLOWS
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Croquet area : LAWN
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Bat wood : ASH
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World Series champs: 1980 : PHILLIES
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Midler hit song : THEROSE
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Valenzuela's agreement : SISI
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College or collar : ETON
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W.W. II craft : LCTS
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English Channel feeder : EXE
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Kind of plank : GANG
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Russian news service : TASS
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Major leaguer, e.g. : PRO
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Van Gogh painted here : ARLES
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Corset-factory employee : GORER
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Using speech : ORAL
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Doll's word : MAMA
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Remain : STAY
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Wife of 53 Down : BESS
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Sloping passage : RAMP
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City on the Oka : OREL
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Street show : RAREE
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Carlton's craft : PITCHING
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Oriole catcher: 1955-62 : TRIANDOS
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Ruthian swats : WALLOPS
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Throw wildly : ERR
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Ballet skirt : TUTU
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Mantle or Mays, once : STAR
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Hard look : STARE
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Belief : TENET
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Dwight of the Red Sox : EVANS
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Ennis and Crandall of baseball : DELS
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F.D.R.'s successor : HST
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To be, in Montreal : ETRE
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Arkin or Bates : ALAN
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Look over : SCAN
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Observe : SEE
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"___ Got Sixpence" : IVE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 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.

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