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Vincent L. Osborne
Vincent L. Osborne

New York Times, Friday, March 21, 1980

56-Across : Taps

Author:
Vincent L. Osborne
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Vincent L. Osborne has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,091
Across
1
Derby courses : OVALS
6
Recipe word : ADD
9
Pentateuch : TORAH
14
Used a taper again : RELIT
15
Luau adornment : LEI
16
Portuguese city from Roman times : EVORA
17
Cynosures at some receptions : BRIDESANDGROOMS
20
Compass pt. : ESE
21
Do an antiquary's job : RESTORE
22
Krazy ___ : KAT
23
"I Could Have ___ ... " : DANCED
25
Prefix with cede or date : ANTE
27
Precarious structure : HOUSEOFCARDS
33
Oratorio solo : ARIA
36
Snack bar order, for short : MALT
37
He wrote "The Hollow Men" : ELIOT
38
Sound of tapped crystal : TING
39
Treat maliciously : SPITE
41
Marquisette : LENO
42
Noted Franciscan philosopher : OCCAM
44
Anatomical passage : ITER
45
"Cómo ___?" : ESTA
46
Flirts : PHILANDERERS
49
___ bargain : PLEA
50
Author of "One of Ours" : CATHER
54
White-spotted whale : SEI
56
Taps : SPIGOTS
60
Chemical suffix : ANE
61
Stadium offerings : SPECTATORSPORTS
64
Purport : TENOR
65
Word with war or far : CRY
66
First president of Germany : EBERT
67
Apply oneself : SETTO
68
Bewitch : HEX
69
Small change : DIMES
Down
1
Spherical : ORBED
2
Follower of vice : VERSA
3
Mork, for one : ALIEN
4
Cookware item : LID
5
Descendant of an Edison invention : STEREO
6
Word of woe : ALAS
7
Car scar : DENT
8
Aeneas's queen of Carthage : DIDO
9
Playwright known for pure Latin : TERENCE
10
Ab ___ (from the beginning) : OVO
11
Adélies' breeding grounds : ROOKERIES
12
"___ virumque ... " : ARMA
13
Biblical verb : HAST
18
Stonecrops : SEDUMS
19
German count : GRAF
24
Painter of "I and the Village" : CHAGALL
26
Adjective for redwoods : TALLEST
28
Palatable : SAPID
29
Type of type : ELITE
30
Playful aquatic mammal : OTTER
31
Elvis's "___ Be Cruel" : DONT
32
Zeno's ___ Poikile : STOA
33
On : ATOP
34
"The man who dies ___ dies disgraced": Carnegie : RICH
35
Germinal : INCIPIENT
40
Raises : ERECTS
43
Fiedler, e.g. : MAESTRO
47
California wine valley : NAPA
48
Grated upon : RASPED
51
Odalisque's quarters : HAREM
52
___ nous : ENTRE
53
Caesuras : RESTS
54
Visitors to J.F.K. : SSTS
55
Relative of a foil : EPEE
57
Be impatient : ITCH
58
Wedge of cloth : GORE
59
Gemsbok's cousin : ORYX
62
Four-poster's little brother : COT
63
Geisha's sash : OBI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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