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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Thursday, November 12, 1981

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q V X }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Grid flow: 42.1
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,692
Across
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Semiprecious stone : OPAL
5
Succotash ingredients : LIMAS
10
Uses a ray gun : ZAPS
14
Sugarcane shoot : LALO
15
U.S.S.R. river : ONEGA
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What Idaho and Oregon do : ABUT
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Part of U.A.R. : ARAB
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Brenda of comics : STARR
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Defense against a mugger : MACE
20
Irresponsible person : FLIBBERTIGIBBET
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Days of ___ : YORE
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___ Wantanabe, Japanese figure skater : EMI
25
Earn : MERIT
28
Light blow : PAT
31
Former Turkish bigwig : PASHA
35
One of Cleopatra's maids : IRAS
36
Like a life span : FINITE
38
Human dynamo's asset : PEP
39
Ragamuffins : TATTERDEMALIONS
42
Sedan summer : ETE
43
Lack of color : PALLOR
44
Homophone for a convent dweller : NONE
45
Wyoming event : RODEO
47
Suffix with law or saw : YER
48
Ayn Rand's shrugger : ATLAS
49
Biol. or chem. : SCI
51
Seine feeder : OISE
53
Beautiful : PULCHRITUDINOUS
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Road for Caesar : ITER
62
Irregularly incised : EROSE
63
Portuguese landlady : DONA
64
One-billionth: Comb. form : NANO
65
Paton heroine : NELLA
66
Oklahoma city : ENID
67
Sign of spring : THAW
68
Nelson and Mary Baker : EDDYS
69
What demographers gather : DATA
Down
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Kingly name : OLAF
2
British cong. : PARL
3
Jai ___ : ALAI
4
Washington agent : LOBBYIST
5
Cornwallis at Yorktown : LOSER
6
How heroes act : INTREPIDLY
7
Protein source : MEAT
8
Kind of culture : AGRI
9
Nickname for Bilko : SARGE
10
Lusaka is its capital : ZAMBIA
11
Rhyme scheme : ABAB
12
Brownish purple : PUCE
13
Let it be : STET
21
Asa Gray's forte: Abbr. : BOT
22
Drive forward : IMPEL
25
Kind of box : MITER
26
"The lovely Muse" : ERATO
27
Judged : RATED
29
Anoint, old style : ANELE
30
How cowards act : TIMOROUSLY
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Wire holder : SPOOL
33
Beautician's purchase : HENNA
34
Areas in basilicas : APSES
36
Angelo or Dominic : FRA
37
Do roadwork : TAR
40
Golden age, e.g. : EPOCH
41
Meant : INTENDED
46
In ___ (in trust, as funds) : ESCROW
48
"___ was saying ... " : ASI
50
Drama by Samuel Johnson : IRENE
52
Brainstorms : IDEAS
53
Milk measure : PINT
54
Beehive State : UTAH
55
Heroine of Conrad's "Victory" : LENA
56
Incensed : IRED
57
"I ___ you so!" : TOLD
58
Chaplin's widow : OONA
59
One is one : UNIT
60
Actress Thompson : SADA

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5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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