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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Friday, June 20, 1980

21-Down : One ___ (sandlot game)

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.76, Missing: { F Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 14.0
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,182
Across
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Belgrade native : SLAV
5
Shindig : GALA
9
Sweater knitter's stitch : CABLE
14
Wagon tongue : POLE
15
In a dither : AGOG
16
Draw ___ on : ABEAD
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Stores in a vat : AGES
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Like the cost of caviar : DEAR
19
Threshold : VERGE
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People in their 80's : OCTOGENARIANS
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Kind of fishing : ICE
24
City on the Danube : ULM
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People often in the 80's : SUNBATHERS
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Cap for a dervish : TAJ
34
Up's partner : ABOUT
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"___ a Song Go ... " : ILET
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Kierkegaard, for one : DANE
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Flanders : MOLL
38
Tizzies : SNITS
39
Plato's "Bravo!" : EUGE
40
Diminish : BATE
41
Incense : ODOR
42
Old Turkish coin : ASPER
43
Used up : ATE
44
Pros who do not stay in the 80's long : AUTORACERS
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"Do not ___ what ... " : ASK
48
Gold source : ORE
49
People in the 80's : BPLUSSTUDENTS
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Luncheon entree : SALAD
57
Center of activity : HIVE
58
Cooking herb : DILL
60
S.A. constrictor : ABOMA
61
Arabian peninsula : ADEN
62
Wiesel or Faure : ELIE
63
Board : GETON
64
Protein source : MEAT
65
Fix up : REDO
Down
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Warm Springs, e.g. : SPA
2
Trademark : LOGO
3
Waugh or Templeton : ALEC
4
Coatrack location : VESTIBULE
5
Gizmo : GADGET
6
Author-movie critic James : AGEE
7
This will get your interest : LOAN
8
India tour city : AGRA
9
Carp : CAVIL
10
At right angles to a ship's keel : ABEAM
11
European capital : BERN
12
Trails : LAGS
13
Dutch town : EDE
21
One ___ (sandlot game) : OCAT
22
Autumnal colors : RUSTS
25
Brazilian dance : SAMBA
26
Member of a wolf pack : UBOAT
27
Actor Nick : NOLTE
28
Gandhi was one : HINDU
29
Author of "The Cocktail Party" : ELIOT
30
Prefix with rocket : RETRO
31
Color of a mole's coat : TAUPE
32
Destructive emotion : ANGER
33
Railers' noises : JEERS
36
Orpheus, in search of Eurydice : DESCENDER
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Topers : SOAKS
42
Rhine feeder : AARE
45
Squirrel, e.g. : RODENT
46
Famed 1836 mission : ALAMO
47
Khartoum's land : SUDAN
49
Hank broke his record : BABE
50
Quadrat : PLOT
51
Pretense : SHAM
52
Ferryman's concern : TIDE
53
Eye part : UVEA
54
Mah-jongg accessory : TILE
55
Lost ground : SLID
56
Face-lift target : SAG
59
Papal name : LEO

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

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