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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Monday, February 12, 1979

40-Across : Thirst quencher

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Spans: 6, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6 Grid has duplicate clues.
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,688
Across
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City NE of Tampa : OCALA
6
Wretched : AWFUL
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In the year before Christ: Abbr. : AAC
14
Countrified : RURAL
15
Hire : LEASE
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___ tree (cornered) : UPA
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Purebred : BRUSSELSGRIFFON
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"___ Ideas," 1951 song : IGET
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Prefix with sol or stat : AERO
22
Purebred : ALASKANMALAMUTE
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Coddled : BABIED
30
Likeness : IMAGE
31
Word of approval : AMEN
32
Idaho river : SNAKE
33
Nabokov novel : ADA
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Purebred : BELGIANSHEEPDOG
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Thirst quencher : ADE
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Blobs, as of cream : CLOTS
42
Wool: Comb. form : LANI
43
Victor or Henry : MOORE
44
Sewing-machine worker : SEAMER
46
English or Welsh purebred : SPRINGERSPANIEL
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Many millennia : AEON
51
Vaticinator : SEER
52
Purebred : SCOTTISHTERRIER
60
___ Salvador : SAN
61
Original first name of playwright Baraka : LEROI
62
Expenditure : OUTGO
63
Chemical suffix : YNE
64
Diadem : CROWN
65
Grand ___, Wyoming peak : TETON
Down
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Globe : ORB
2
A.K.C. nonmember : CUR
3
Indonesian island group : ARU
4
___ Cruces, N.M. : LAS
5
European clover : ALSIKE
6
Steve or Woody : ALLEN
7
Annual February headliner : WESTMINSTERSHOW
8
___ end (last part) : FAG
9
Relative of R.O.T.C. : USR
10
Oahu adornment : LEI
11
Pot-___ (Parisian's meat dish) : AUFEU
12
On the left side of a ship : APORT
13
Creek craft : CANOE
18
Mild oath : EGAD
19
Celebrity's acquirement : FAME
22
Addis ___ : ABABA
23
On crutches : LAMED
24
White poplar : ABELE
25
Tell all to the cops : SING
26
Shanghai sitters : AMAHS
27
Louise or Charles : LAKE
28
"African Queen" scriptwriter : AGEE
32
Nocturnal noise : SNORE
33
"Turandot" librettist, with Simoni : ADAMI
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Recipient : DONEE
35
"___ Like I," Loos's autobiography : AGIRL
37
Temple figure : ICON
38
Like a bump on ___ : ALOG
39
Project : PLAN
43
Coin : MINT
44
Graf ___ : SPEE
45
Corn disease : EARROT
46
Impertinent : SASSY
47
Tart topper : PECAN
48
TV's Arledge : ROONE
49
Kind of sleeve : SETIN
53
Mothering, for short : TLC
54
Comparative ending : IER
55
Sellout sign : SRO
56
Woody herb : RUE
57
Worldwide utility : ITT
58
Braggart's problem : EGO
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Cey of L.A. : RON

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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