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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Friday, November 28, 1975

17-Across : Shakespeare play

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 5 (2 double stacks), Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 13.4
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,603
Across
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Arias : SOLI
5
Org. : ASSOC
10
Muttonfish : SAMA
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Coward play : PRESENTLAUGHTER
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Shakespeare play : ACOMEDYOFERRORS
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Light brown : TAN
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Declaims : RANTS
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Starr : RINGO
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___ up (amass) : PILE
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Sharp : KEEN
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Stormy ___ : PETREL
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Cosmetician Lauder : ESTEE
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Land unit : ACRE
31
Fur source : OTTER
32
Deficient : SHY
35
Simon play : THESUNSHINEBOYS
39
Garden tool : HOE
40
Spud : TATER
41
Coarse : RUDE
42
Turn back : REPEL
43
Trap setter : SNARER
45
Lugosi : BELA
48
Comb: Prefix : CTEN
49
Tropical tree : AMATE
51
Love affair : AMOUR
53
Garage worker, for short : MEC
56
Behrman play : NOTIMEFORCOMEDY
59
H. Gardner play : ATHOUSANDCLOWNS
60
Dregs : LEES
61
Millet : PROSO
62
Parcel of land : PLAT
Down
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Tiff : SPAT
2
Killer whale : ORCA
3
Author Uris : LEON
4
Doctrine : ISM
5
One ___ (everybody) : ANDALL
6
Songwriter Jule : STYNE
7
Place for a coin : SLOT
8
Clumsy ones : OAFS
9
Pool adjunct : CUE
10
Pulitzer bird of 1952 : SHRIKE
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Make amends : ATONE
12
Come together : MERGE
13
Certain crime : ARSON
15
Ghoulish : EERIE
16
Angry sound : GRR
21
Company V.I.P. : PRES
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Course : PATH
24
Reverberation : ECHO
25
Genealogy form : TREE
26
Miss Waters : ETHEL
27
Fuss : STIR
28
Number : TEN
29
Before : ERE
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Bone: Prefix : OSTE
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Go bad : SOUR
33
___ Park : HYDE
34
Belgian river : YSER
36
Indian of West : UTE
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Doze : NAP
38
Kind of muffin : BRAN
42
Fractions, e.g. : RATIOS
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Fine plaster : STUCCO
44
Perfume base : NEROL
45
Commonplace : BANAL
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Play the ham : EMOTE
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Wood turner : LATHE
48
Spinal and vocal : CORDS
50
Large bird : EMU
51
Distantly : AFAR
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Prefix for tone or plane : MONO
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Whine : MEWL
54
Miss Best : EDNA
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Wen : CYST
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Sixth sense : ESP
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Unruly hair : MOP

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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