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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Friday, March 30, 1979

58-Across : Landed

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
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
15
Cry said with a sigh : ALAS
16
Name meaning "hairy" : ESAU
17
With 55 Across, sign on a liqueur display : ABSINTHMAKESTHE
20
Companions of mermen : SEAMAIDS
21
Minimal : LEAST
22
"D'ri ___," novel by Bacheller : ANDI
23
Sound's partner : SAFE
25
Missouri tributary : PLATTE
28
Insignificance : PUNINESS
32
Gas: Comb. form : AERI
33
Borge and Kierkegaard : DANES
34
Herd of whales : GAM
35
Baseball "battle of the bottle" opus? : CATCHERINTHERYE
39
Garden dweller : EVE
40
Travail : AGONY
41
Vaccination supplies : SERA
42
Apposite : RELEVANT
44
Kind of bug : JITTER
46
Give up : CEDE
47
Last year's jr. : SENR
48
Huckster, in some cases : ADMAN
51
Forbears : REFRAINS
55
See 17 Across : HEARTGROWFONDER
58
Landed : ALIT
59
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
1
Style periods : ERAS
2
Be in accord : JIBE
3
Jewelry designer Peretti : ELSA
4
Weatherman's adjective : CLIMATIC
5
Renter : TENANT
6
Messianic Moslem leader : MAHDI
7
Charity : ALMS
8
Bleat : MAA
9
Inquire : ASK
10
"Children should ___ ... " : BESEEN
11
Nick and Nora's little friend : ASTA
12
Sounds from pom-pom girls : RAHS
13
"C" for two : DUET
18
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
29
Heron : EGRET
30
Fitzgerald's Zelda : SAYRE
31
Vilify : SMEAR
33
Idle one : DRONE
36
"___ we met before?" : HAVENT
37
"Holy smoke!" : EGAD
38
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
50
Conduit : MAIN
51
Mechanical repetition : ROTE
52
McKinley, "___ of Ohio" : IDOL
53
Opera by Handel : NERO
54
Damas: Abbr. : SRAS
56
Rib-tickler : GAG
57
Grog ingredient : RUM

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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