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Robert Katz
New York Times, Saturday, October 15, 1983
47-Across : Arose, as tears
Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J K M X }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 59, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 19.3
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 E | 2 Y | 3 E | 4 D | 5 A | 6 V | 7 E | 8 R | 9 P | 10 L | 11 U | 12 S | |||
13 S | O | L | E | 14 N | A | D | A | 15 T | A | N | I | 16 A |
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17 Q | U | I | Z | 18 Z | I | N | G | G | 19 L | A | S | S | E | S |
20 O | I | L | S | E | E | D | 21 T | E | S | S |
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22 D | 23 I | 24 A | N | A | 25 P | 26 I | R | A | T | E |
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27 A | R | T | E | 28 S | 29 S | 30 T | 31 S | 32 L | A | L | A | |||
33 B | A | T | 34 A | P | P | R | I | 35 S | E | D | ||||
36 Q | U | 37 I | N | Q | U | A | G | E | N | A | 38 R | 39 Y | ||
40 S | O | R | R | I | E | S | T | 41 E | A | 42 T |
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43 F | 44 O | O | L | 45 S | N | R | S | 46 I | N | R | E |
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47 W | E | L | L | E | 48 D | 49 A | N | E | N | T |
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50 A | R | E | A | 51 C | 52 O | 53 A | 54 C | 55 H | E | D | ||||
56 G | R | A | N | 57 D | I | N | Q | U | I | S | I | 58 T | 59 O | 60 R |
61 S | E | T | T | O | 62 T | U | R | N | 63 C | A | L | A |
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64 T | E | S | T | 65 O | A | S | T | 66 T | R | E | E |
© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,394
Across
1
Ogled : EYED
5
Asseverate : AVER
9
Calculator key : PLUS
13
Dover delicacy : SOLE
14
Nothing, in Nicaragua : NADA
15
Taro : TANIA
17
Monocles with handles : QUIZZINGGLASSES
20
Sesame is one : OILSEED
21
Kinski role : TESS
22
Future queen : DIANA
25
Henry Morgan was one : PIRATE
27
Comedian Johnson : ARTE
28
Some visitors to Kennedy : SSTS
32
Tra followers : LALA
33
Face a hurler : BAT
34
Gave notice : APPRISED
36
Golden-wedding occasion : QUINQUAGENARY
40
Most rueful : SORRIEST
41
Take tiffin : EAT
43
Abderite : FOOL
45
Prospective grads : SNRS
46
Regarding : INRE
47
Arose, as tears : WELLED
49
See 46 Across : ANENT
50
Length times width, often : AREA
51
Managed an eleven : COACHED
56
Torquemada was one : GRANDINQUISITOR
61
Bout : SETTO
62
Off-ramp maneuver : TURN
63
Rice cake : CALA
64
Final, e.g. : TEST
65
Cockle : OAST
66
Arboret : TREE
Down
1
U.K. gentry : ESQ
2
Homophone for ewe : YOU
3
High, to a Hebrew : ELI
4
Remove building regulations : DEZONE
5
Fabaceous shrub : ANIL
6
Capacious four-wheelers : VANS
7
Brink : EDGE
8
Act like Hotspur : RAGE
9
School org. : PTA
10
Fellini film: 1954 : LASTRADA
11
Open an envelope : UNSEAL
12
Postprandial repose : SIESTA
16
African fox : ASSE
18
Guglielmo's aunt : ZIA
19
Rank of Windermere or Chatterley: Abbr. : LDP
22
Use a powder puff : DAB
23
Middle East land : IRAQ
24
Aleutian site : ATTU
26
"___ him to a lady" (nursery-rhyme line) : ILENT
28
Letters from Rome : SPQR
29
Fillips : SPURS
30
Jog, spar, etc. : TRAIN
31
___ de Brabant, medieval philosopher : SIGER
34
Lizard : ANOLE
35
Mtg. : SESS
37
Detached spores : ISOLANTS
38
Clair or Dubos : RENE
39
Tall tale : YARN
42
Asian holiday : TET
43
Polecat : FERRET
44
___ of quinine : OLEATE
46
File charges : INDICT
47
Glib wits : WAGS
48
Seventh-century starter : DCI
49
Runner-up to D.D.E. : AES
52
In the know : ONTO
53
Pastel shade : AQUA
54
Villains : CURS
55
Clue : HINT
57
Comma's kin : DOT
58
Do roadwork : TAR
59
Bull-ring cry : OLE
60
Sally Field role : RAE
Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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