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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Tuesday, December 16, 1980

54-Across : " ... and out like ___"

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 43, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { K Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 10, XRef: 7, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 28.6
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,361
Across
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Kind of sugar or syrup : MAPLE
6
Amateurish performer : HAM
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In fighting shape : TRIM
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Broadcast : AIRED
14
Lyric poem : ODE
15
Oriental rug : HERAT
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Town where 48 Across was born : STEVENTON
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On the mother's side : ENATE
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Dr. Salk : JONAS
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River or Gershwin's first big hit : SWANEE
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Homophone for new : GNU
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Posthumous novel by 48 Across : PERSUASION
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Inflamed : RED
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Most orderly : NEATEST
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Dispatch boat : AVISO
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Gunpowder or hyson : TEA
32
___ up (increases) : STEPS
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Ornamentation : DECOR
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Small bird of prey : OWLET
39
Build : ERECT
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Self-esteem : EGO
43
Clamor : NOISE
44
Heidt and Greeley : HORACES
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Caldwell or Akins : ZOE
48
Great English novelist : JANEAUSTEN
52
Cleo's killer : ASP
53
Future oaks : ACORNS
54
" ... and out like ___" : ALAMB
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Carry along : BRING
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"___ Park," novel by 48 Across : MANSFIELD
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Succession: Fr. : SERIE
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Actress MacGraw : ALI
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Lana's first husband : ARTIE
65
Vaticinator : SEER
66
United : WED
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Actress Ada of yore : REHAN
Down
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Bell and Kettle : MAS
2
Small island : AIT
3
"Pride and ___," novel by 48 Across : PREJUDICE
4
Turning counterclockwise, for short : LEVO
5
First place : EDEN
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Position of anxiety : HOTSEAT
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Trouble : ADO
8
Items on a game board : MEN
9
Unfinished manuscript by 48 Across : THEWATSONS
10
Calif. rockfish : RENAS
11
Teheran native : IRANI
12
San ___, Calif. : MATEO
16
Harold of the comics : TEEN
18
Scruff : NAPE
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Swine genus : SUS
22
A or 100, e.g. : GRADE
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"___ on Sunday" : NEVER
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Highway: Abbr. : RTE
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Red or Ross : SEA
28
"___ Abbey," posthumous novel by 48 Across : NORTHANGER
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The S.P.C.A. is one : SOC
33
Number of satellites around Mars : TWO
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___ Bennet, heroine created by 48 Across : ELIZABETH
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Cuernavaca cash : PESOS
36
Precipitous : STEEP
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Conversational pauses : ERS
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Water channel : GAT
42
Sea nymph : OCEANID
45
Full of: Suffix : OUS
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Photo blowups: Abbr. : ENLS
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Certain punches : JABS
49
Estate or lands : ACRES
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Bête ___ : NOIRE
51
Borgnine to friends : ERNIE
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Not nearby : AFAR
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Slue goo : MIRE
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Throat of a voracious beast : MAW
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Some drink this "gingerly" : ALE
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___ Fail, Irish coronation stone : LIA
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Study : DEN

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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