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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Wednesday, March 4, 1981

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { F Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 32.3
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,439
Across
1
West German region : SAAR
5
Agile : SPRY
9
Right a wrong : ATONE
14
She sees Meara in the mirror : ANNE
15
Word with blue or love : TRUE
16
Indigo is one : COLOR
17
Sneaky one in the wine line : PETE
18
Barrett or Jaffe : RONA
19
Synthetic fiber : ORLON
20
Las Vegas phenomena : WINNINGSTREAKS
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What a sprinter seeks to break : TAPE
24
"Cat ___ Hot Tin Roof" : ONA
25
Out-of-studio telecast : REMOTE
28
Peccadillo : SIN
30
Half of MCCCII : DCLI
34
Pipe-tobacco feature : AROMA
35
Players of short stature : TOTS
37
Threw one's hat in the ring : RAN
38
Las Vegas tactic : DOUBLEORNOTHING
42
Newspaper revenue-maker : ADS
43
Lanchester : ELSA
44
Man's slipper : ROMEO
45
What stogies do : REEK
47
Ophidian : ASP
48
Most silent : MUTEST
49
Suffix for Marx or Lenin : IST
51
Flicks : PICS
52
Cleans up at Las Vegas : HITSTHEJACKPOT
59
Sprout : ARISE
60
Ivory source : TUSK
61
Heed the head : OBEY
63
"Easy ___" : RIDER
64
Top name in Modena: 1288 : ESTE
65
Kind of board or bag : TOTE
66
River into the Rhone : ISERE
67
Check : STAY
68
Noticed : SEEN
Down
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Drain of energy : SAP
2
All over again : ANEW
3
Prefix with body : ANTI
4
Change the locale for interment : REENTOMB
5
Zebra feature : STRIPE
6
Disposed : PRONE
7
Ladder part : RUNG
8
Senate votes : YEAS
9
Whence comes a mighty oak : ACORN
10
"Oh! teach the orphan boy ___": Tennyson : TOREAD
11
Earthenware container : OLLA
12
Cranny's partner : NOOK
13
Sea birds : ERNS
21
Christmas in Cremona : NATALE
22
The Masked Man's pal : TONTO
25
Instrument at Kennedy : RADAR
26
Undercut : ERODE
27
Timid one : MOUSE
28
Rush-hour hanger : STRAP
29
Charged particle : ION
31
Word with fiction or rate : CRIME
32
Highway units : LANES
33
Gold mold : INGOT
36
Hit : STRUCK
39
Israeli port : ELATH
40
C.I.A.'s predecessor : OSS
41
Trouble areas : HOTSPOTS
46
Georgie Porgie was one : KISSER
48
Author Spillane : MICKEY
50
Metric measure : STERE
51
Shells, elbows, etc. : PASTA
52
Mata ___ : HARI
53
Eye part : IRIS
54
Skipper's concern : TIDE
55
Parisian seasons : ETES
56
Fair : JUST
57
Woodwind : OBOE
58
___-bêche, philatelist's phrase : TETE
62
Item a Japanese may have a hankering for : YEN

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

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