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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Friday, February 13, 1987

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 27.6
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,611
Across
1
Soviet news agcy. : TASS
5
Wild hogs : BOARS
10
Villa d'___ : ESTE
14
Smell ___ : ARAT
15
Rush-hour "weapon" : ELBOW
16
Dry: Comb. form : XERO
17
Actor Teeter : LARA
18
"Vive ___!" : LEROI
19
Adolescent : TEEN
20
Kent, Lane and White : CLARKLOISPERRY
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Yucatán uncle : TIO
24
Vision opener : TELE
25
Blue : SAD
28
Kindling component : TWIG
31
Lions, to Bantus : SIMBAS
35
Row : TIER
37
Buck chaser : EROO
39
"I ___ Symphony," Supremes hit : HEARA
40
What Kent was faster than : ASPEEDINGBULLET
43
Last part of "Te amo" : ILOVE
44
Join the bears : SELL
45
Abominable one : YETI
46
Narrate anew : RETELL
48
Old cars : REOS
50
E.M.K. is one : SEN
51
Oliver of filmdom : REED
53
Meal starter : OAT
55
Milieu of 20 Across : THEDAILYPLANET
62
Kind of horse or hand : IRON
63
Jack : KNAVE
64
Purchase in a stube : BEER
65
This can slip : DISC
66
What -phagus means : EATER
67
Space on a bird's face : LORE
68
Arch type : OGEE
69
Embellish : DRESS
70
Simian space traveler : ENOS
Down
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Soft mineral : TALC
2
Asian sea : ARAL
3
Poet Teasdale : SARA
4
Initiate : START
5
Roared : BELLOWED
6
A chromolithograph, for short : OLEO
7
Hillside dugout : ABRI
8
What Chanticleer rules : ROOST
9
Filches : SWIPES
10
To the nth degree : EXTREMELY
11
Magus : SEER
12
Deuce topper : TREY
13
Century upon century : EON
21
Set : KIT
22
Root grown in Clinton, N.Y. : ELIHU
25
Flight part : STAIR
26
Globe area : AISLE
27
Etape : DEPOT
29
Spring flower : IRIS
30
Hopeless case : GONER
32
Packs cotton : BALES
33
Valor; virtue : ARETE
34
Claudel's "The ___ Slipper" : SATIN
36
Clerical title : REVERENCE
38
Watch the girls go by : OGLE
41
Went for congers : EELED
42
TV blunders : BLOOPERS
47
Spilled D.C. beans : LEAKED
49
"My gal" : SAL
52
Kuwaiti coin : DINAR
54
Board : TABLE
55
Math form : TRIG
56
Garden sight : HOSE
57
Like some bloomers : LATE
58
M. Montand : YVES
59
Gas light : NEON
60
Saarinen : EERO
61
Three, to Tiberius : TRES
62
Knot-tying words : IDO

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

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