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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Monday, July 6, 1987

19-Down : Presidential picker

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { B F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
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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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,754
Across
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Veranda : PORCH
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Jahan built here : AGRA
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File : RASP
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"BUtterfield 8" author : OHARA
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"The Tonight Show" host: 1957-62 : PAAR
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Athenian "Whoopee!" : EVOE
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Avifauna : ORNIS
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When most people watch TV : PRIMETIME
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Soviet symbol : REDSTAR
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Come through : DELIVER
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Circumference : PERIMETER
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Energetic : SPRY
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Autocrat : TSAR
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Lebanese export : CEDAR
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Querying word : HUH
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Proper : MEET
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Play with annoyingly : TEASE
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Agreed : ATONE
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Hades : DIS
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Old Roman port : OSTIA
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Worked on a dirk : HONED
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Mosel feeder : SAAR
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Baseball great Roush : EDD
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Links star : SNEAD
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___ Mujeres, Mexico : ISLA
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Quarry : PREY
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Sycamore : PLANETREE
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Service group : WAITERS
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Made soda : AERATED
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Everted : INSIDEOUT
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Winged : ALATE
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Campus figure : COED
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Senior citizen, in Köln : ALTE
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Drug from the leaves of a plant : SENNA
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Cap site : KNEE
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Beginning : SEED
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Mystery writer's award : EDGAR
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Impoverished : POOR
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Czech river : OHRE
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She wrote "The Fountainhead" : RAND
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Like potato chips : CRISPY
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Error causer : HASTE
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Informed : APPRISED
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Needlefish : GAR
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One of Al Davis's players : RAIDER
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Medieval head-protector : ARMET
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Many Floridians : RETIREES
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Tel ___ : AVIV
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Bother or trouble ending : SOME
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Earl or duke : PEER
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Presidential picker : ELECTOR
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Commedia dell'___ : ARTE
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Fauvist painter : MATISSE
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Former Iranian rulers : SHAHS
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Don : PUTON
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Alpine flower : RHONE
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Postal machine : DATER
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Player's sotto-voce remark : ASIDE
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Set preceder : READY
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Intervened officiously : MEDDLED
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Shore phenomenon : NEAPTIDE
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Took a leap : SALTATED
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Swiss river : AARE
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Shoe part : INSOLE
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Rang : PEALED
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Neighborhoods : AREAS
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Efface : ERASE
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Flame holder : WICK
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In a bit : ANON
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Fortuneteller's phrase : ISEE
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Bite : TANG
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Heating device : ETNA
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Letter opener : DEAR
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All-purpose veh. : UTE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 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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