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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Wednesday, August 24, 1983

29-Down : Grey-Schertzinger song: 1929

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 308 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
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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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,342
Across
1
Activator : GOAD
5
Scout sites : CAMPS
10
Ultimate : NTH
13
Hanging around : IDLE
14
Music hall : ODEON
15
Words of worry : OHOH
17
Kahn-Donaldson song: 1928 : LOVEMEORLEAVEME
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Dry-goods dealer : DRAPER
21
Narrow valley : GLEN
22
Ayres or Wallace : LEW
23
Host : EMCEE
25
Hard times : RIGORS
27
Sci-fi creature : ANDROID
30
Czech, for one : SLAV
31
Through : PER
32
"___ a gun!" : SONOF
35
Opt for : ELECT
38
Author Ben ___ Williams : AMES
40
Lowest point : NADIR
42
"___ the Agent" : ABIE
43
Reluctant : LOATH
45
Ecological cycles : SERES
47
Southwestern Indian : UTE
48
Field calls : MOOS
50
Traveled over snow : SLEDGED
52
Taste : PALATE
54
Western Belle : STARR
55
Self : EGO
56
Theater sign : EXIT
58
Veranda : PIAZZA
62
Gordon-Revel song, with "The": 1935 : LOVELINESSOFYOU
65
Ash or rowan : TREE
66
Land follower : SCAPE
67
Fed : TMAN
68
Refuge : ARK
69
Cradle calls : MAMAS
70
Posted : SENT
Down
1
Add unnecessarily : GILD
2
Repute : ODOR
3
Part of T.A.E. : ALVA
4
More involved : DEEPER
5
Force : COERCION
6
___ Annie in "Oklahoma!" : ADO
7
Blend : MERGE
8
Kind of tax : POLL
9
Apes a baddie : SNEERS
10
Fall mo. : NOV
11
Disney film: 1969 : THELOVEBUG
12
Noted bard : HOMER
16
Axes : HEWS
18
Exec. items : MEMOS
19
Like some senior citizens : ANILE
24
Best and Stengel : EDNAS
26
Celebratory : GALA
27
"Oh, What ___ Was Mary": 1919 song : APAL
28
Verne character : NEMO
29
Grey-Schertzinger song: 1929 : DREAMLOVER
33
Lyrical poem : ODE
34
Initial : FIRST
36
Quote : CITE
37
___ off (in a snit) : TEED
39
Ancient ambulatory : STOA
41
Sinks back : RELAPSES
44
Traveler's stopover : HOTEL
46
Comic like Chaplin : SERIO
49
Form of discrimination : SEXISM
51
Rough scripts : DRAFTS
52
Skin : PELT
53
Marketplace : AGORA
54
Cookbook direction : STEAM
57
Quechuan : INCA
59
Ferment : ZYME
60
Biblical city (also called Tanis) : ZOAN
61
Polly, to Tom Sawyer : AUNT
63
Cartoon cry : EEK
64
Evian-les-Bains is one : SPA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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