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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Wednesday, February 20, 1980

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 27.7
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,061
Across
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The red planet : MARS
5
Get rid of : SHED
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Thermae : BATHS
14
Words of understanding : ISEE
15
Female beauty : PERI
16
Utopian : IDEAL
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Feather one's ___ : NEST
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Region of ancient Greece : ELIS
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Papal headdress : TIARA
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Volume I of a Churchill opus, with "The" : GATHERINGSTORM
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Theater sign : SRO
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They preyed on the Pueblos : UTES
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Certain property : REALTY
29
Bearing : MIEN
30
Haggard novel : SHE
33
"A poem lovely as ___" : ATREE
34
Fastener : HASP
35
God with a hammer : THOR
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Volume II of a Churchill opus : THEIRFINESTHOUR
39
Free electrons : IONS
40
Parisian summers : ETES
41
Awaken : ROUSE
42
Explorer Johnson : OSA
43
Steinbeck's "Tortilla ___" : FLAT
44
Trounced : ROUTED
45
Kind of horse or curtain : IRON
46
Sodium chloride : SAL
47
Title of a six-volume Churchill opus, with "The" : SECONDWORLDWAR
54
Pops : SODAS
55
Plentiful : RIFE
56
"Bitter ___" (Italian film) : RICE
57
Suffix with fraud : ULENT
58
He wrote "The Angry Hills" : URIS
59
Piedmontese brew, for short : ASTI
60
Ike's British colleague in arms : MONTY
61
As ___ as a pin : NEAT
62
"Think ___" (dieter's imperative) : THIN
Down
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Chinese dynasty : MING
2
On the briny : ASEA
3
Musical notation : REST
4
Adam's third son : SETH
5
Inventor of a practical gyroscope : SPERRY
6
Sun: Comb. form : HELIO
7
Where banshees wail : ERIN
8
Camouflages : DISGUISES
9
"Once ___, twice shy" : BITTEN
10
Goodbye, in Guadalajara : ADIOS
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"O shed no ___!": Keats : TEAR
12
Injure : HARM
13
Moroccan port : SLA
21
Depside is one : ESTER
22
Hitchcock's "The Thirty-Nine ___" : STEPS
25
Mathematical relationship : RATIO
26
Belief system : ETHOS
27
Where gladiators gathered : ARENA
28
Hawaiian neckwear : LEIS
29
French painter : MANET
30
Raise one's voice : SHOUT
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Theater audience : HOUSE
32
Strayed : ERRED
34
Kind of driver or baseball play : HITANDRUN
35
A grand : THOU
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Jack the Ripper was one : FELON
38
Angler's tactic : TROLL
43
Like windows in winter : FROSTY
44
Least common : RAREST
45
"___ Begin to Tell You" : ICANT
46
Balkan capital : SOFIA
47
One-man stint : SOLO
48
Whence Cain was banished : EDEN
49
Circus prop : WIRE
50
Egad's cousin : DRAT
51
Genie's offering : WISH
52
Start of a play : ACTI
53
Slow a horse, with "in" : REIN
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Partner of substance : SUM

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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