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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Saturday, September 14, 1985

26-Across : Twenty-one

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { G J K Q }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6 Grid has duplicate clues.
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,094
Across
1
Subject of Katz's "Days of Wrath" : MORO
5
"___ war": F.D.R. : IHATE
10
Small evergreen : ATLE
14
Actor Badel : ALAN
15
Cited : NAMED
16
Moonraker : SAIL
17
Twenty-one : SEVENTIMESTHREE
20
Big or little follower : TOE
21
Saarinen : EERO
22
One way to go it : ALONE
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It's ducky for ducks : POND
24
Apple part : CORE
26
Twenty-one : TWOINTOFORTYTWO
33
Nicaraguan people : RAMAS
34
A river at Rennes : ILLE
35
___ Supply of rock fame : AIR
36
Minnesota's St. ___ College : OLAF
37
Part of a Pound poem : CANTO
39
Wagnerian earth goddess : ERDA
40
Halsey's org. : USN
41
Fort Apache loc. : ARIZ
42
Plus-side item : ASSET
43
Twenty-one : THIRTYMINUSNINE
47
Piccadilly Circus statue : EROS
48
Bluebeard's sister-in-law : ANNE
49
Teacher's order : ERASE
52
Amonasro's daughter : AIDA
53
Wilander play : LOB
56
Twenty-one : SIXTEENPLUSFIVE
60
Thor ___, U.S. rocket : ABLE
61
Photographer Adams : ANSEL
62
Give off : EMIT
63
Like a jalopy : USED
64
Frail : REEDY
65
Russian's "Si si!" : DADA
Down
1
Crow's-nest site : MAST
2
A chromolithograph, for short : OLEO
3
Angel's source of ecstasy : RAVE
4
A follower : ONE
5
Purpose : INTENT
6
Sassoon's specialty : HAIRDO
7
Tommy-gun lead : AMMO
8
North begins here : TEE
9
Koch and Meese : EDS
10
Rhett's rival : ASHLEY
11
Tropical staple : TARO
12
Banker's leverage : LIEN
13
Part of a C.S.A. name : ELEE
18
Night sights : NEONS
19
Flan in Sedan : TARTE
23
She sang "La Vie en Rose" : PIAF
24
Native Dancer was one : COLT
25
Flat plinth : ORLO
26
Dolly Varden, e.g. : TROUT
27
Film director Raoul : WALSH
28
Muscat native : OMANI
29
"The Garden of the ___-Continis," De Sica film : FINZI
30
Where the astragali are : TARSI
31
Dilate : WIDEN
32
Emulate Aeschines : ORATE
37
Cold: Comb. form : CRYO
38
Draws a bead on : AIMS
39
Ethelbald's thrall : ESNE
41
End of a Kilmer line : ATREE
42
Poker precursor in Persia : ASNAS
44
Took five : RESTED
45
Caught red-handed : NAILED
46
To excess : UNDULY
49
Name meaning "hairy" : ESAU
50
Barbecue offering : RIBS
51
Live or dead follower : AXLE
52
Orbital point : APSE
53
Phyllis Diller's birthplace : LIMA
54
Naso : OVID
55
Kind of ray or wave : BETA
57
Shape of some shells : EAR
58
Miami-New York dir. : NNE
59
I.R.S. agent : FED

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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