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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Monday, June 8, 1981

5-Down : Sudden bursts of activity

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, 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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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,535
Across
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Disney : WALT
5
German town : STADT
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Delayed : LATE
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Ben Adhem : ABOU
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Lovelorn one : PINER
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Exam : ORAL
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Prevaricator : LIAR
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Foot part : ANKLE
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Louvre displays : OILS
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Cartoon horror : DENNISTHEMENACE
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Mil. awards : DSMS
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Botany is one : BAY
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Group grasped by groupies : IDOLS
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Thaw : MELT
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Letters on some ships : USS
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"What ___ fighting for?": R.W. Service : AREWE
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Retain : SAVE
34
Carriage in Kensington : PRAM
35
Russian horror : IVANTHETERRIBLE
38
Hullabaloos : DINS
39
Type of convention : OPEN
40
Related on Mom's side : ENATE
41
Chemical suffix : ENE
42
Six events in an inning : OUTS
43
Streisand role : FANNY
44
"___ Vickers," S. Lewis novel : ANN
45
De ___, Italian movie maker : SICA
46
Master of cinematic horror : ALFREDHITCHCOCK
54
Burma or Tobacco : ROAD
55
The "10" girl of films : DEREK
56
Cathedral city NE of Paris : LAON
57
Run ___ (encounter) : INTO
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Window jutting out from a wall : ORIEL
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Domestic slave of Ethelred's day : ESNE
60
Bambi's kin : DEER
61
Peninsula in SE Quebec : GASPE
62
Beef ___ : STEW
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Jerry ___, Hollywood writer-producer : WALD
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Hero of a long-running play : ABIE
3
Banker's decision : LOAN
4
Refusals : TURNDOWNS
5
Sudden bursts of activity : SPASMS
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Colors : TINTS
7
Egyptian cross : ANKH
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Cancel : DELE
9
Quaker : TREMBLER
10
Tetched : LOONY
11
"Ritorna vincitor" is one : ARIA
12
Baby's need : TALC
13
Otherwise : ELSE
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Key or cay : ISLET
22
Take tea in Trowbridge : EAT
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Author Cobb : IRVIN
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Colonists' first foreign emissary : DEANE
27
Spouses : MATES
28
Level : EVEN
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Type of renewal : URBAN
30
Piquant : SALTY
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Duck : SMEE
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Ike, to Mac : AIDE
33
Clan : SEPT
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Peaks : PINNACLES
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Presley hit: 1956 : HOUNDDOG
37
Stretch : REACH
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Follower of 12, sometimes : ONE
43
Capricious : FICKLE
44
Elan : ARDOR
45
High-priced : STEEP
46
Dry : ARID
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Isolated : LONE
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Lot : FATE
49
Juno, to the Greeks : HERA
50
Spring bloomer : IRIS
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Kiln : OAST
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Treat for a tot : CONE
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"If You ___ Susie ... " : KNEW

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

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