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Vincent L. Osborne
Vincent L. Osborne

New York Times, Friday, November 2, 1979

Author:
Vincent L. Osborne
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 40.8 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Vincent L. Osborne has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,951
Across
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Actor from Buenos Aires : LAMAS
6
Basilica recess : APSE
10
Nickname for Aqueduct Race Track : BIGA
14
In any way : ATALL
15
Be openmouthed : GAPE
16
Son of Aphrodite : EROS
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Impala's cousin : ORIBI
18
Correspondent : ANALOGOUS
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Jobs that pay while you stay in the hay : SINECURES
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Jag : BINGE
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Ooze : SEEP
24
Incipience : ONSET
25
Used a taboret : SAT
27
Stung by the love bug : SMITTEN
32
Zodiac figure in July : CRAB
34
Paint-company employee : TONER
35
Netman Nastase : ILIE
39
___ Seton, author of "Dragonwyck" : ANYA
40
Type of shooter : AGATE
41
Presidential inauguration hour : NOON
42
Glowing : ROSY
43
Mystical poetry : RUNES
44
Tam-tam, e.g. : GONG
45
Empty-headed : WITLESS
47
Prefix for plunk : KER
48
Surround : HEMIN
51
Alcohol burner : ETNA
54
Job for a logger : AXING
55
What "she sells" in a tongue-twister : SEASHELLS
60
Sign of embarrassment : REDDENING
62
Wall climbers : IVIES
63
Logician's word : ERGO
64
Inventor's middle name : ALVA
65
Face with masonry : REVET
66
Olla or salmi : STEW
67
Mr. Chips's charges : BOYS
68
Livery : DRESS
Down
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Country bounded by the Mekong : LAOS
2
Site of a Longfellow bell : ATRI
3
Chief supports : MAINSTAYS
4
Author of "A Delicate Balance" : ALBEE
5
Rasher : SLICE
6
Oriental soup ingredient : AGAR
7
Glazier's item : PANE
8
Karlovy Vary and Solbad Hall in Tirol : SPAS
9
Wriggler : EEL
10
"In the ___ was the Word" : BEGINNING
11
What Watson has in the bag : IRONS
12
Carpenter's chisel : GOUGE
13
Height, to a basketball center : ASSET
19
Bassoon's cousin : OBOE
21
Parvenu : UPSTART
25
Mark of combat : SCAR
26
Pisa's river : ARNO
28
Bigwig : MOGUL
29
Fatuous : INANE
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Chapeaux locales : TETES
31
Coiffeur's concern : TRESSES
33
Fatso's spare tire : BAYWINDOW
36
Coach's exhortation : LOOKALIVE
37
Bulwer-Lytton heroine : IONE
38
A Northeastern U. grad : ENGR
46
He won an Oscar for "Splendor in the Grass" : INGE
48
Hounds' prey : HARES
49
Put forth strength : EXERT
50
Author Decter ("The New Chastity") : MIDGE
52
Show place : THIRD
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"___ mind!" : NEVER
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Anagram for oils or Lois : SILO
56
Green-eyed emotion : ENVY
57
Turkish generals : AGAS
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Settled matter : LEES
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Swift planes : SSTS
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Pinch : NAB

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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