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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Saturday, July 22, 1978

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.51, Missing: { F G K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 94, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 36.5
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,570
Across
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Hereford enclosure : COWPEN
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Refined, as ore : SMELTED
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Eastern Christian : UNIATE
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Daredevil's delight : JEOPARDY
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Like some tires or coats : BELTED
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Predate : ANTECEDE
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Antilles : ISLES
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Whomp : SMITE
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Russian village : MIR
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Easily bruised area : SHIN
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Commemorative pillar : STELE
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"Patterns" or "Birches" : POEM
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Word with head or line : TOW
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Dissect grammatically : PARSE
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Vice follower : VERSA
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Albany enactment, e.g. : STATELAW
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Pablo or Pedro : SAN
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He wrote "Song of Myself" : WALTWHITMAN
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Like Marvell's mistress : COY
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Cold-cubes factory : ICEPLANT
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Rathskeller vessel : STEIN
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Kefauver : ESTES
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Diplomat knighted by James I : ROE
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Market-research tool : TEST
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Took a sudden interest : SATUP
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Transactions : ACTA
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Pop's brother : UNC
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Oak or elm growths : BURLS
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Pipe : BRIAR
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Antimalarial drug : ATABRINE
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Blueblood, for short : ARISTO
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Automatic : REPEATER
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Health indicators : PULSES
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Negotiator : TREATER
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Kind of kick : ONSIDE
Down
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Léger and Braque : CUBISTS
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Kind of color camera : ONESHOT
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Sudden violent wind : WILLIWAW
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Eucharistic plate : PATEN
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Times when Nancy is warm : ETES
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Little Edward, to some : NED
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Doddering : SENILE
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Arizona copse : MOTTE
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Unsharpened sword : EPEE
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Ingredient in sealing wax : LAC
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Vibration : TREMOR
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Vortexes : EDDIES
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Niger valley natives : DYERMA
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"Portrait of My Mother" artist: 1872 : JAMESWHISTLER
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Kind of vote or boss : STRAW
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Like corned beef : SALTY
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Punitive : PENAL
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Hairless : PELON
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Shoe parts : VAMPS
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Implicit : TACIT
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Like a rimrock : STEEP
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Metrical accent : ICTUS
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Spring bloomers : NARCISSI
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Wrote the musical score : NOTATED
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Garden club favorite : TEAROSE
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Charles or Mary : STUART
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Boy Scout, at times : TENTER
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Houdini's forte : ESCAPE
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Taxpayer : EARNER
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Apartment : SUITE
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Pea holders : ARILS
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Noxious child : BRAT
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Swarthy, in Tours : BRUN
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Arthur : BEA
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Mil. mail handler : APO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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