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Sidney L. Robbins
Sidney L. Robbins

New York Times, Monday, January 6, 1986

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.68, Missing: { G J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 22.4
Sidney L. Robbins has 153 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 50 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,208
Across
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Séance sound : RAP
4
Subject : TOPIC
9
Airport in Chicago : OHARE
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Black bird : ANI
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Entangle : SNARL
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Kind of candle : ROMAN
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Letterhead abbr. : INC
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Purses : POCKETBOOKS
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Purpose : SAKE
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Nicholas, e.g. : TSAR
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Joint : KNEE
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Takes everything out : EMPTIES
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Caucasian of China : NOSU
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Upon : ONTO
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Halted legally : ESTOPPED
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Sources of cocoa : CACAOS
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Army chow : MESS
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Old Danish money : ORA
38
Printers' needs : INKS
39
Assist : AID
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Year in the reign of Pope Gregory I : DCII
41
Kind of hold : TOE
42
Riga native : LETT
44
Israeli coin : SHEKEL
46
Begs : ENTREATS
48
Top-notch : AONE
49
Movie dog : ASTA
50
Irene Castle dance : ONESTEP
53
Bridge : SPAN
56
Religious image : ICON
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Always : EVER
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Tool for Penrod : POCKETKNIFE
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Assam silkworm : ERI
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Member of the wedding : USHER
65
French school : ECOLE
66
Mexican uncle : TIO
67
Those in want : NEEDY
68
Patron saint of France : DENYS
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Finished: Poet. : OER
Down
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Elevate : RAISE
2
Indochinese area : ANNAM
3
Sneak thief : PICKPOCKET
4
Recipe abbr. : TSP
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Lennon's widow : ONO
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Treaties : PACTS
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Irritates : IRKS
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Purified : CLEANSED
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Globe : ORB
10
Connection : HOOKUP
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Thebes deity : AMON
12
Roué : RAKE
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Start of the Bay State motto : ENSE
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Jogs : TROTS
21
Lab heaters : ETNAS
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Japanese admiral : ITO
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Dawn goddess : EOS
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Mayday's cousin : SOS
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Gives forth : EMITS
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Presidential prerogative : POCKETVETO
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Clinton's canal : ERIE
33
Irish assembly : DAIL
34
Quote : CITE
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Soon : ANON
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Besieged : ATTACKED
40
Thick : DENSE
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"___ Misérables" : LES
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"And thus shall ye ___ ... ": Ex. 12:11 : EATIT
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___ José, Costa Rica : SAN
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Farm tool : HOE
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Tiered : RANKED
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Tear-jerker : ONION
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Strange : EERIE
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Earlier : PRIOR
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Whirled : SPUN
54
Sit for Sargent : POSE
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Ail, in a way : ACHE
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Twice halved : ONCE
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Suffix with quack or witch : ERY
61
Ointment spoiler : FLY
62
Some M.I.T. alumni : EES

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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