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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Friday, August 28, 1992

31-Down : Skipjacks

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 2, Spans: 2, 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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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,634
Across
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"McElligot's ___ ": Dr. Seuss : POOL
5
Flows back : EBBS
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Leave out : OMIT
13
Circa : ABOUT
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Spill over : SLOP
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Not any : NONE
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Greetings to new parents : CONGRATULATIONS
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A social : TEA
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Improve : AMEND
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Popular gift : ROSES
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Weskit : VEST
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Hermit : LONER
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Sluggish : LEADEN
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Kind of cross : TAU
30
Exert moral pressure : IMPEL
31
Cause for joy : FIRSTBORN
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Lebanon's ___ Gemayel : AMIN
38
Sky sight : COMET
39
Netman Nastase : ILIE
40
With 55 Across, more greetings : MANYHAPPY
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Sampler's "God ___ Our Home" : BLESS
43
Silly one : ASS
44
Sri Lankan exports : PEKOES
45
Sentient : AWARE
48
Redolence : ODOR
50
"Ghosts" is one : DRAMA
51
Open to view : OVERT
52
Osprey's cousin : ERN
55
See 40 Across : RETURNSOFTHEDAY
58
Change of five : ONES
59
Columbus's state : OHIO
60
Cut : SLICE
61
Peel : PARE
62
Slosh through water : WADE
63
Let it stand : STET
Down
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NATO, e.g. : PACT
2
Shawm's descendant : OBOE
3
Mrs. Chaplin : OONA
4
Haul : LUG
5
Noted author of children's books : ESTES
6
Dull : BLUNT
7
___ Ruler, Secretariat's sire : BOLD
8
Ems or Baden-Baden : SPA
9
Tear-jerker : ONION
10
Beast in "Northern Exposure" : MOOSE
11
Kind of tube : INNER
12
Polanski film : TESS
14
Emulate Gulliver : TRAVEL
18
Last word : AMEN
19
Namaycush, e.g. : TROUT
24
Endure : LAST
25
Actor Neeson : LIAM
26
Soprano Trentini : EMMA
27
Hear ___ drop : APIN
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Just say no : DENY
29
Die side : TREY
31
Skipjacks : FOPS
32
Limb of the Devil : IMP
33
Swindle : BILK
34
Oil, in Olot : OLEO
35
Stevens of Met fame : RISE
36
Stack role : NESS
38
Example : CASE
41
Ethiopian city : HARAR
42
Pullman pads : BERTHS
44
Larboard : PORT
45
Market Square, e.g. : ARENA
46
Pitcher's burden : WATER
47
Entertain : AMUSE
48
Egg-shaped : OVOID
49
Creator of Moll Flanders : DEFOE
50
Dew or lemon follower : DROP
51
Labor Dept. branch : OSHA
52
Splice some shots : EDIT
53
Iditarod, e.g. : RACE
54
Russian veto : NYET
56
President Ireland's gp. : NOW
57
Sights in the Bx. : ELS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 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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