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Lou Sabin
Lou Sabin

New York Times, Saturday, September 21, 1991

28-Down : Suggestions

Author:
Louis Sabin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.56, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
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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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,292
Across
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Carries by hand : TOTES
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Noisome : FETID
11
Dam, to a lamb : PARENT
12
Stays : ABIDES
14
Activity for debaters or dicers : MAKINGONESPOINT
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TV backdrops : OLEOS
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Largest asteroid : CERES
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Vance's Packard? : CAR
20
Ayrshire river : DOON
21
Flock of geese : SKEIN
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Go for : LIKE
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Ostrich's kin : EMU
24
Take to task : CHIDE
25
Expand : WIDEN
26
Military equipment : MATERIEL
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Othello's adjective for Iago : HONEST
29
Speeder's activity : BARRELING
31
Away : ABSENT
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Bridge supports : PONTOONS
38
Dame lead-in : NOTRE
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No-nos : DONTS
40
Sabbath seat : PEW
41
Post-tare allowance : TRET
42
Bluenoses : PRIGS
43
Rink event : SAVE
44
Org. in "Odd Man Out" : IRA
45
Eternities : AEONS
46
TV role for Jane Curtin : ALLIE
47
Stops beating around the bush : COMESTOTHEPOINT
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Be ambiguous : WEASEL
51
Bean and Welles : ORSONS
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Dolly Varden, e.g. : DRESS
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Figure of speech : TROPE
Down
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Kind of order : TAKEOUT
2
Belted night sight : ORION
3
Gymnasts' goals : TENS
4
Part of the U.K. : ENG
5
More thickset : STOCKIER
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Spenser's "The ___ Queene" : FAERIE
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Barnaby Jones portrayer : EBSEN
8
Overturns : TIPS
9
Altar agreement : IDO
10
Murder of a god : DEICIDE
11
Dove, in Durango : PALOMA
13
Ophidians : SNAKES
14
Device for transmission of data : MODEM
15
Form of embroidery : NEEDLEPOINT
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E. C. Bentley sleuth : TRENT
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Gift that finished Hercules : SHIRT
22
Dialect : LINGO
24
Weight lifter : CRANE
25
Customs : WONTS
27
Siskel's partner : EBERT
28
Suggestions : HINTS
30
Unlikely winner : LONGSHOT
31
Nip-up : ANTIC
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Disregard Polonius's advice : BORROW
33
Saw red : STEAMED
35
Iridescent : OPALINE
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Historian Allan ___ : NEVINS
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Containing aspartame : SWEET
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Talks foolishly : DROOLS
42
Seeger and Sampras : PETES
43
Single-masted vessel : SLOOP
45
Caama : ASSE
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Lhasa ___ : APSO
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Attention : EAR
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Drop a pop-up : ERR

Answer summary:
3 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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