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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Thursday, October 9, 1980

26-Down : Luther foe ("Hammer of Heretics")

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 28.4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,293
Across
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Bang the keyboard : TYPE
5
Word with wet or white : WASH
9
Winter sound : SLOSH
14
Twenty quires : REAM
15
"To work ___ pray" : ISTO
16
South American prairie : PAMPA
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Famed lawman : EARP
18
Held : MAINTAINED
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Chinatown attraction : SHRIMPFRIEDRICE
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Something to obey : RULE
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___ salmon (sockeye) : RED
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Narrow passage : DEFILE
27
Pub purchase : ALE
29
Sprat's no-no : FAT
32
Quickly : APACE
33
Where to see "La Maja Desnuda" : PRADO
35
___ du Diable : ILE
36
Chinatown attraction : LOBSTERCHOWMEIN
39
Top painter of birds : EDE
40
Moslem prince : AMEER
41
Norway, to a Norwegian : NORGE
42
Suffix with law or saw : YER
43
Popeye's Olive : OYL
44
Obliquely : ASLANT
45
Meet, as judges : SIT
47
Sleuth's need : CLUE
48
Chinatown attraction : CHICKENCHOPSUEY
56
Nobelist in Literature: 1934 : PIRANDELLO
57
Tracy's bride : TESS
58
Word with said or thought : AFORE
59
Courts : WOOS
60
"Or ___!" : ELSE
61
Strengthen : SINEW
62
Graf ___ : SPEE
63
Natty Bumppo's quarry : DEER
Down
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Uno, dos, ___ : TRES
2
Relative of yep : YEAH
3
Young salmon : PARR
4
Persons relying on experience vis-à-vis theory : EMPIRICS
5
What some nuns will have none of : WIMPLE
6
"___ and Sane Fourth": Masson : ASAFE
7
Tend the pot : STIR
8
"___ soit ... " : HONI
9
Spud : SPADE
10
One of the Scottish gentry : LAIRD
11
Arena in Atlanta : OMNI
12
Risk venture, for short : SPEC
13
Rock-fault angle : HADE
19
Shipworm : TEREDO
21
Matador's cloth on a stick : MULETA
24
Mayor who died in 1976 : DALEY
25
Type of lyric poem : EPODE
26
Luther foe ("Hammer of Heretics") : FABER
27
Ray ___, famous manager of boxers : ARCEL
28
Comedian Bert: 1895–1967 : LAHR
29
Fair, in Ferrara : FIERA
30
Set in a row : ALIGN
31
Principle : TENET
33
Frog, to a skunk : PREY
34
Confesses : OWNSUP
37
Hammed it up : EMOTED
38
Disturbed; annoyed : MOLESTED
44
"He fumbles up into ___ adieu": Shak. : ALOOSE
45
Word with head or crow : SCARE
46
"___ him when ... " : IKNEW
47
Shepherdess of poetry : CHLOE
48
Accts. : CPAS
49
Stereo feature : HIFI
50
Niblick, e.g. : IRON
51
Seven o'clock event in N.Y.C. : NEWS
52
Street sound, once : CLOP
53
Ubangi feeder : UELE
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Being : ESSE
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River of France and Belgium : YSER

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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