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Vincent L. Osborne
Vincent L. Osborne

New York Times, Saturday, December 13, 1980

Author:
Vincent L. Osborne
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 44.7
Vincent L. Osborne has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,358
Across
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"M*A*S*H" actor : ALDA
5
Has dinner : SUPS
9
Vibrant : ALIVE
14
Faustian commodity : SOUL
15
Father Flye's famous correspondent : AGEE
16
Composer of "Pavane for a Dead Princess" : RAVEL
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November choices : STRAIGHTTICKETS
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Highway maneuver : UTURN
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Tyrrhenian and Timor : SEAS
22
Weather satellite : ESSA
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Leader of the Afrika Korps : ROMMEL
25
Gerrymander, perhaps : REMAP
27
Coating for iron : ZINC
29
Jazz dances : STOMPS
33
Name of 12 popes : PIUS
37
Othello, for one : MOOR
39
Lachrymal : TEARY
40
Victor over H.M.S. Guerrière : USSCONSTITUTION
43
Emulates a Lippizaner : REARS
44
Apply a mordant : ETCH
45
Hack and rip followers : SAWS
46
Certain barge cargo : REFUSE
48
River to Cairo : OHIO
50
County north of San Francisco : MARIN
52
Flash lamp : STROBE
57
Gad : ROAM
60
Slalom obstacle : GATE
62
Ready for broadcasting : TAPED
63
Big Eight 11 : OKLAHOMASOONERS
66
Alamo ordeal : SIEGE
67
Bar to equity : BIAS
68
Early Montanan : CREE
69
Trucklers' responses : YESES
70
Swing around : SLUE
71
Mend : HEAL
Down
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Supreme national god of Assyria : ASSUR
2
Keno's relative : LOTTO
3
Wheat variety : DURUM
4
Yegg's undoing : ALARM
5
Time for bears : SAG
6
Sounds of aversion : UGHS
7
Hopper in an Eastertime tune : PETERCOTTONTAIL
8
Bristles : SETAE
9
Rainbow : ARC
10
Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey : LAKEPOETS
11
Famous name in lithography : IVES
12
V.F.W. members : VETS
13
Maxwell of columns, films and parties : ELSA
18
Don Juan's mother : INEZ
19
Philosophies, perhaps : ISMS
24
Sketch : LIMN
26
Westernmost point of the Aleutians : ATTU
28
Bozo's beezer : NOSE
30
Eldest of the Pleiades : MAIA
31
Place for a figurehead : PROW
32
Roget's wds. : SYNS
33
Run smoothly, as an engine : PURR
34
Words of understanding : ISEE
35
TSgt's branch : USAF
36
Rugby play : SCRUMMAGE
38
In clover : RICH
41
Greek peak : OSSA
42
"Upon ___ rock ... " : THIS
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Word after a minor premise : ERGO
49
Holy Roman emperor : OTTO
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Feet of common measure : IAMBS
53
Estancia : RANCH
54
___ citato, footnote words : OPERE
55
Kentucky college : BEREA
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Son of Henry : EDSEL
57
Cheerful : ROSY
58
Tom Joad, for instance : OKIE
59
Porters : ALES
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Son of Rebekah : ESAU
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Males : HES
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Suffix with verb : OSE

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

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