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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

Literary Outing

New York Times, Sunday, July 25, 1976

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 136, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.37, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 557 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 123, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 18, Grid flow: 32.3
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,843
Across
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Fix over : REDO
5
Cloak : SERAPE
11
Suffix for hippo : DROME
16
Ruggles's was red : GAP
19
Norway's king : OLAV
20
Pack closely : CRAMIN
21
Eton, to Harrow : RIVAL
22
W.W. II agency : OPA
23
Noon: Ready for a picnic : BAREFOOTINTHEPARK
26
Demure : COY
27
Color for an isle : EMERALD
28
Gullet : CRAW
29
Do a bellhop job : PAGE
30
12:15 P.M.: Spot picked out : UNDERTHEYUMYUMTREE
37
Voice : BASSO
40
Northern auk : URIA
41
Most of N.Y. outside N.Y.C. : UPSTATE
42
12:30 P.M.: Gourmet lunch : SPLENDORINTHEGRASS
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Spanish aunt : TIA
48
Of grandparents : AVAL
49
Ready and willing : EAGER
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Follow : DOG
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Mountain : ALP
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Detect : SMELL
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Cloth sieve : TAMIS
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Jettison : SCRAP
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Put to oath again : RESWEAR
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Gas element : RADON
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Suit sizes : STOUTS
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12:45 P.M.: Thunder : THEGATHERINGSTORM
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Fly : AVIATE
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Wood for wicker: Var. : RATAN
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Sun hats : PANAMAS
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Milk: Prefix : LACTO
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Bills of fare : MENUS
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Unite : MARRY
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Wing : ELL
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Sign : INK
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H.S.T.'s birthplace : LAMAR
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Like Pindar's output : ODIC
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Goddess: Lat. : DEA
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1 P.M.: Lightning : THESOUNDANDTHEFURY
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Pry into someone's life : SNOOPON
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Robt. ___ : ELEE
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Divisions: Abbr. : DEPTS
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1:15 P.M.: Taking cover : AWALKONTHEWILDSIDE
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Restrain : BATE
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Canal : ERIE
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Blue pencil : EDITOUT
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Spanish wave : OLA
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1:20 P.M.: No escape : PANICINNEEDLEPARK
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Ott : MEL
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Israeli port : ELATH
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Easygoing : DEGAGE
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Therefore : ERGO
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Grieg woman : ASE
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Doctrine : TENET
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Teacher, at times : TESTER
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Grasses : RYES
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Beach wear : ROBE
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Biblical kingdom : ELAM
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Kind of devil : DARE
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Triteness : OVERUSE
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Critical one : SCOLD
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Wear down : ERODE
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Hairpiece : RAT
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Friend, in Paris : AMI
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Put on a tight shoe : PINCHIN
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Implore : ENTREAT
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Madison, N.J., campus : DREWU
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"Let 'er ___!" : RIP
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Egg cells : OVA
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Deface : MAR
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Lodge member : ELK
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Stroller : GOCART
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Highest point : APOGEE
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Check casher : PAYEE
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Maniple : FANON
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Ride or fever : HAY
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School-org. units : PTAS
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Part of R.F.D. : RURAL
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Warble : TRILL
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Modern park hazard : MUGGING
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Belgian war town : YPRES
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Indian salt : USAR
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Rockies or Alps: Abbr. : MTS
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Spectral body : BSTAR
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Make ___ (get rich) : APILE
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Pie-thrower's genre : SLAPSTICK
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Impair : DAMAGE
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___ barrel : OVERA
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Turn for home : HEADIN
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De Valera : EAMON
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Solicited : DRUMMEDUP
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Kind of meal : OAT
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Certain drs. : GPS
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Take care of : SEETO
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"___ Bulba" : TARAS
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Unfeeling : STONY
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Miss Witherspoon : CORA
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Kind of not : WHAT
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Come back : RETURN
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Laundry item : STARCH
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Well-known Boston street : TREMONT
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City near Frankfurt : HANAU
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Boat spar : SPRIT
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Muhammad : ALI
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Forefront : VAN
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Wide awake : ALERT
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Does in : SLAYS
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James or Perry : MASON
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___ metal (nickel alloy) : MONEL
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Extra : ADDED
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Husk: Prefix : LEPO
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Decorated metal : TOLE
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African pen : HOK
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English explorer : DEWINDT
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Title receiver : ALIENEE
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Albert or Bracken : EDDIE
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1,100 ___ second (speed of sound) : FEETPER
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Wetlands : SWALES
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Christmas, in Italy : NATALE
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Large snake : ABOMA
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Writer Ben : HECHT
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Silkworm : ERI
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Marsh growth : SEDGE
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Vagrant : IDLER
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Widely outspread : OARY
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Prod : URGE
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Ring victories : TKOS
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Tizzy : PET
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"Cakes and ___" : ALE
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Thai river : NAN
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Adherent: Suffix : ITE
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Latin abbrs. : EGS
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Swallow : EAT

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12 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 11 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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