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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Saturday, April 25, 1992

71-Across : Dog salmon

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { H J W X Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 37.7
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,509
Across
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Hemingway nickname : PAPA
5
Support : PROP
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Reduced : PARED
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Down with, in Dijon : ABAS
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Impertinent : RUDE
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Convex molding : OVOLO
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Harboring a temperate virus : LYSOGENIC
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Dravidian tongue : TAMIL
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In the manner of: Suffixes : ESQUES
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Agent for action : CATALYST
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Initials at Columbus : OSU
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Legal matter : RES
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Christmas cheer : NOG
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Licenses, e.g. : IDENTS
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Flunkies : YESMEN
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Growing white : CANESCENT
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Fashion : STYLE
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Buccal : ORAL
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Hebrew prophet, Douay style : ELIAS
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Land east of the Urals : ASIA
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Serving tool : LADLE
45
A hawk : ACCIPITER
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Visionary : DREAMY
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Japanese astronomer : KIMURA
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Sound measure : BEL
52
Male sheep, in Stoke : TUP
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Hiatus : GAP
56
Let air out : DEFLATED
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___ Venezia (Italian resort) : LIDODI
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Roué, at times : OGLER
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The Ten Commandments : DECALOGUE
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"Nothing ___!" : DOING
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Single-foot, e.g. : GAIT
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Devoted group : CULT
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Bone: Comb. form : OSTEO
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Art Deco name : ERTE
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Dog salmon : KETA
Down
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Primitive: Comb. form : PALEO
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Chasm : ABYSS
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Satire : PASQUINADE
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"Not ___ had he got ... ": R. H. Barham : ASOU
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Stately bearing : PRESENCE
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Nylons spoiler : RUN
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Lyrical : ODIC
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___ pie : PECAN
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Thick soups : POTAGES
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Grandfatherly : AVAL
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Schneider of films : ROMY
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Cantabs' rivals : ELIS
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Buffoon : DOLT
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Actor Richard and family : GERES
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Yoyo, for one : TOY
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Grave marker : STELA
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Street or Reese : DELLA
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Snee's partner : SNICK
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Kind of case or way : STAIR
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Interpreter of religious doctrines : MYSTAGOGUE
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Faure or Wiesel : ELIE
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At hand : NEAR
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Algid : COLD
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Sandarac tree : ARAR
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Implied : TACIT
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Feign : SIMULATE
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Trade restraint : EMBARGO
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Aristotle, to Plato : PUPIL
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Still : YET
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Shelf : LEDGE
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Mature : ADULT
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Famed statue : PIETA
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Boob : DODO
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They drive us : EGOS
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Move erratically : FLIT
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Unaspirated consonant : LENE
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Letter opener : DEAR
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Stevedore's milieu : DOCK
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Townsman : CIT

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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