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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Tuesday, January 16, 1979

7-Down : Elizabethan poet

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 253 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 28.9
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,661
Across
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Pirate's take : LOOT
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Korean port : PUSAN
10
___ of living : COST
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"La Douce" : IRMA
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A road to Rome : APPIA
16
Poker stake : ANTE
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Nobelist Thomas : MANN
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Guns of Britain : STENS
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College in London : SION
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Live-it-up occasion : ANIGHTONTHETOWN
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Inclines : LEANS
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Hollywood and ___ : VINE
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Third Hebrew letter : GIMEL
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___ statesman : ELDER
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Baton Rouge inst. : LSU
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Fossil-rich tar pits in L.A. : LABREA
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Norwegian king : OLAF
39
Pennsylvania station : ALTOONA
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Spring : EMANATE
43
Hunter's target : DEER
44
Plant used in wool manufacture : TEASEL
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Dolley Madison, ___ Payne : NEE
47
Gets into the vicinity : NEARS
49
Pressed : URGED
51
Confabulate : CHAT
53
Norman Vincent ___ : PEALE
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Live-it-down occasion : THEMORNINGAFTER
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Had on : WORE
63
Trunk artery : AORTA
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Pakistani language : URDU
65
Religious image: Var. : IKON
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It's between snow and rain : SLEET
67
Garden's bed : SOIL
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Courteous chap : GENT
69
Chaplain, to a G.I. : PADRE
70
Feminine suffix : ETTE
Down
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Kind of bean : LIMA
2
Mediterranean port : ORAN
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Prefix for bus or science : OMNI
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Mesh in a mess : TANGLE
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Naples staple : PASTA
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Author Sinclair : UPTON
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Elizabethan poet : SPENSER
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"I ___ Got Nobody" : AINT
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Poet Ogden : NASH
10
Like some stomachs : CASTIRON
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Tear-jerker in the kitchen : ONION
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Uncle Tom's creator : STOWE
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Neighbor of Miss. : TENN
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One meaning for "Aloha" : HELLO
22
Sewer of fig leaves : EVE
25
Kind of hand or rags : GLAD
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Man is one : ISLE
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Trumpet accessory : MUTE
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D. S. Freeman's "___ Lieutenants" : LEES
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Beknighted female : DAME
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Acronym on Broadway : ANTA
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Bugs, but not Bunny : BAER
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"Auld ___ Syne" : LANG
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Fit to ___ : ATEE
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Oats : FEED
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Bauble, bangle or bead : ORNAMENT
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Wing of sorts : ALULA
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Was ambitious : ASPIRED
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Ike's W.W. II post : ETO
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Say nay : REFUSE
51
Valve on a gasoline engine : CHOKE
52
Wading bird : HERON
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Door sign : ENTER
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Relative of onyx : AGATE
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Poplar part : TWIG
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Irritate : RASP
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Accordion favorite : NOLA
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Jogger's gait : TROT
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Use a blue pencil : EDIT
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Be in power : RULE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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