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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Monday, April 23, 1979

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 4.84, Missing: { Q V X Y }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 11.8
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. 10,758
Across
1
Modest : DEMURE
7
Bible-translation king : JAMESI
13
Source : ORIGIN
14
"___ the public" : OPENTO
15
First line of an ode to secretaries : WITHOUTHERAID
17
Badminton item : NET
18
Triplet : TRIN
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Friendly farewell : TATA
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"___ no kick ... ": Porter : IGET
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Cronyn, to Tandy : COACTOR
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Second line of verse : OURBUSINESSHERO
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Thai or Burmese : ASIAN
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Cape Cod military base : OTIS
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Trepidation : FEAR
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Smoker's trail : ASHES
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Soigné : CHIC
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Mine: Fr. : AMOI
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Hat with a high crown and plume : SHAKO
41
Third line of verse : WOULDOFTENTIMES
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Most like a certain evergreen : PINIEST
48
Perdition : RUIN
49
Alda or Bates : ALAN
50
Irish name for 7 Down : SEAN
51
In the ___ of luxury : LAP
54
Last line of verse : BEBATTINGZERO
59
Hardy's partner : LAUREL
60
Stops : CEASES
61
Worker: Comb. form : ERGATO
62
Truex or Borgnine : ERNEST
Down
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Word with stairs or town : DOWN
2
Albany-Buffalo canal : ERIE
3
Glove for Chambliss : MITT
4
Sound of disdain : UGH
5
Anti-insurrection weapon : RIOTGUN
6
Accustoms : ENURES
7
Law or Locke : JOHN
8
Mammal for Hooton's study : APE
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"La ___," Debussy opus : MER
10
Spain's queen before Sofia : ENA
11
Do some sewing : STITCH
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Medicinal salt : IODATE
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S.A. monkey : TITI
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Peak : TOR
21
Nigerian native : ARO
22
Steel beam : IBAR
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Whale : CETE
24
Medical suffix : OSIS
25
Blockhead : ASS
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Lummox : OAF
27
Function : USE
28
Estuary, to Esteban : RIA
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___, no-run game : NOHIT
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Freeman Gosden's radio role : AMOS
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Flaccid : SOFT
35
Gab : CHIN
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Mugger : HAM
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Mamie's man : IKE
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Romaine's cousin : COS
39
George's drink? : ADE
40
Wasp's weapon : STINGER
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Agcy. once headed by Harry Hopkins : WPA
42
Russian shipment to Cuba : OIL
43
Incompetent : UNABLE
44
Kind of equation : LINEAR
45
Middle of a well-known palindrome : EREI
46
Subtlety : NUANCE
50
French town on the Vire : STLO
51
___-majesté : LESE
52
Hera's young hawk : ARES
53
Word after lamp or parcel : POST
55
Eavesdrop, in a way : BUG
56
Parseghian : ARA
57
Hanoi holiday : TET
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Zeus, to the Dorians : ZAN

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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