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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Friday, May 21, 1993

34-Down : Certain dirs.

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,900
Across
1
Spa facilities : BATHS
6
Early weapon : SPEAR
11
Cold and damp : RAW
14
Cheerless : BLEAK
15
In days ahead : HENCE
16
Lawyers' org. : ABA
17
Sports prize sought in 1992 : AMERICASCUP
19
Akita or schipperke : DOG
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Site for 17 Across : SANDIEGO
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Digression : ASIDE
23
Objectives : ENDS
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Divine ones : DEITIES
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Farm for Red? : GRANGE
29
A U.S. vice admiral in W.W. II : LEARY
30
Suffer : AIL
31
Inane : SENSELESS
35
Conner's participant in race for 17 Across : STARSANDSTRIPES
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Family derivation : PARENTAGE
40
Mobile wool factory? : EWE
41
Late comedienne Fields : TOTIE
42
Availability : ACCESS
45
Urban ___ : RENEWAL
48
Nul tiel record, e.g. : PLEA
49
Mushroom maker? : ABOMB
50
Spinnaker's birthplace : SAILLOFT
54
Angry sound : BOO
55
Sports history-maker of 1983 : AUSTRALIAII
58
Road haven : INN
59
Nostrils, to an M.D. : NARES
60
Ore pigment : OCHER
61
Stain : DYE
62
Norwegian dollar : KRONE
63
Drench : SOUSE
Down
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Bus. degrees : BBAS
2
Soprano Gluck : ALMA
3
Harold of comics : TEEN
4
Solidify : HARDEN
5
Mahre's activity : SKIING
6
Some rugs : SHAGS
7
Montevideo money : PESO
8
Bus.-letter abbr. : ENC
9
Needle: Comb. form : ACU
10
Mr. Fix-it : REPAIRER
11
Armbones : RADII
12
Home : ABODE
13
Laborers' payments : WAGES
18
Give in to : CEDE
22
Cutting tools : STYLI
24
Obtuse : DENSE
25
Start of a Steinbeck title : EAST
26
Shock sound : GASP
27
Singer Coolidge : RITA
28
Banned spray : ALAR
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Shelf : LEDGE
31
Move slowly : SNAIL
32
Foil's cousin : EPEE
33
Runs up : SEWS
34
Certain dirs. : SSES
36
Desert shrub : RETEM
37
Winter sight in Me. : SNOWBANK
38
"___ boy!" : ATTA
42
Albania's ex-president : ALIA
43
Symphony instruments : CELLOS
44
Piebald horse : CALICO
45
Furious : RABID
46
Wood for 36 keys : EBONY
47
"___ Is to Blame," 1986 hit : NOONE
48
Do a grammar job : PARSE
50
Machine gun : STEN
51
Part of the 50th : OAHU
52
Sounds of reproach : FIES
53
Jade : TIRE
56
Egypt and Syria, once: Abbr. : UAR
57
B'way warning : SRO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 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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