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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Friday, March 30, 1979

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 31.8
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,734
Across
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Bounce from a bistro : EJECT
6
"Pistol Packin' ___," 1943 song : MAMA
10
Odist, e.g. : BARD
14
Moon valley : RILLE
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Cry said with a sigh : ALAS
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Name meaning "hairy" : ESAU
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With 55 Across, sign on a liqueur display : ABSINTHMAKESTHE
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Companions of mermen : SEAMAIDS
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Minimal : LEAST
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"D'ri ___," novel by Bacheller : ANDI
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Sound's partner : SAFE
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Missouri tributary : PLATTE
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Insignificance : PUNINESS
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Gas: Comb. form : AERI
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Borge and Kierkegaard : DANES
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Herd of whales : GAM
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Baseball "battle of the bottle" opus? : CATCHERINTHERYE
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Garden dweller : EVE
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Travail : AGONY
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Vaccination supplies : SERA
42
Apposite : RELEVANT
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Kind of bug : JITTER
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Give up : CEDE
47
Last year's jr. : SENR
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Huckster, in some cases : ADMAN
51
Forbears : REFRAINS
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See 17 Across : HEARTGROWFONDER
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Landed : ALIT
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Four-wheeler : AUTO
60
Early shopping mall : AGORA
61
Curse or poison : BANE
62
Webster's their new boss : GMEN
63
Greek island : DELOS
Down
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Style periods : ERAS
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Be in accord : JIBE
3
Jewelry designer Peretti : ELSA
4
Weatherman's adjective : CLIMATIC
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Renter : TENANT
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Messianic Moslem leader : MAHDI
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Charity : ALMS
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Bleat : MAA
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Inquire : ASK
10
"Children should ___ ... " : BESEEN
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Nick and Nora's little friend : ASTA
12
Sounds from pom-pom girls : RAHS
13
"C" for two : DUET
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Surge of a sort : TIDE
19
Mischievous : ELFISH
23
Kern musical hit: 1925 : SUNNY
24
He wrote "Petite Ville" : ANET
25
Meadowlands runner : PACER
26
Holiday for Mister Roberts : LEAVE
27
Minsk co-op : ARTEL
28
Emulate Lely : PAINT
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Heron : EGRET
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Fitzgerald's Zelda : SAYRE
31
Vilify : SMEAR
33
Idle one : DRONE
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"___ we met before?" : HAVENT
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"Holy smoke!" : EGAD
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Disaffect : ESTRANGE
43
Game played with 32 cards : ECARTE
44
Actor Chandler: 1919–61 : JEFF
45
Encroachment : INROAD
47
Appliqué with needle and thread : SEWON
48
Fictional one-legged captain : AHAB
49
Mazo ___ Roche : DELA
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Conduit : MAIN
51
Mechanical repetition : ROTE
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McKinley, "___ of Ohio" : IDOL
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Opera by Handel : NERO
54
Damas: Abbr. : SRAS
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Rib-tickler : GAG
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Grog ingredient : RUM

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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