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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Monday, June 4, 1990

8-Down : Pared

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,818
Across
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Farmer's milieu? : DELL
5
Form : SHAPE
10
Copied : APED
14
Essayist's nom de plume : ELIA
15
Stepped like an expectant father : PACED
16
Irritated : SORE
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Words to the bride : BESTWISHES
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Rhodes, e.g. : ISLE
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Confine : TETHER
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Like some trains : ELEVATED
23
Redact : EDIT
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A first name in gin lore : ELI
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Pack tightly : JAM
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Serious; sober : STAID
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Urbane : SUAVE
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Hildegard Behrens specialty : ARIA
38
Jardiniere : URN
39
Beauty-salon treatments : SINGES
40
Word to the groom : CONGRATULATIONS
43
Bony : OSTEAL
44
Droop : SAG
45
"The course of ___ love ... ": Shak. : TRUE
46
Harried : BESET
47
Chamfer : BEVEL
49
Silly one : ASS
50
Before, in poesy : ERE
52
Assist an arsonist : ABET
54
Immunizing liquids : ANTISERA
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He's often "constant" : READER
63
A Capetown citizen, e.g. : BOER
64
Words from doting kin to bride and groom : ALLOURLOVE
66
Hokum : BUNK
67
Walks like John Silver : LIMPS
68
Tied : EVEN
69
Pass receivers : ENDS
70
Scythe handle : SNATH
71
Famed Spanish muralist : SERT
Down
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I.o.u. : DEBT
2
Gen. Robt. ___ : ELEE
3
Start to sink : LIST
4
Machine tool : LATHE
5
Music often rendered by Odetta : SPIRITUAL
6
Possesses : HAS
7
Head or tooth follower : ACHE
8
Pared : PEELED
9
Detroit dud : EDSEL
10
Myanmar's locale : ASIA
11
Mail : POST
12
Author Gardner : ERLE
13
Boy Scout's "good" accomplishment : DEED
18
Marries : WEDS
22
"Nice place to ___, but ... " : VISIT
24
Baker's sweet treat : TART
26
Sculptor Epstein : JACOB
27
Came up : AROSE
28
After-dinner treats : MINTS
30
Occupied : INUSE
32
Army outfit : UNIT
33
Marketplace : AGORA
34
Classic beauty : VENUS
35
Worms or curves : ESSES
37
Awry : AGEE
39
Western desert plant : SAGEBRUSH
41
Values : RATES
42
Etna juice? : LAVA
47
Where East finally met West in 1989 : BERLIN
48
Ogle's less innocent cousin : LEER
51
Former silver coins of Spain : REALS
53
Hoffmann specialty : TALES
54
Entertainer Lane : ABBE
55
Speech or part of speech : NOUN
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Play sitter or nurse : TEND
57
Vexes : IRKS
58
___ mater : ALMA
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Hawk's antithesis : DOVE
61
Eternally : EVER
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Lease : RENT
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Choose : OPT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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