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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Saturday, September 12, 1992

50-Down : Jannings of films

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 27, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 100, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 34.6
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,649
Across
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Leguminous : PODDED
7
Make the h-sound : ASPIRATE
15
Small cavity : AREOLE
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Perfume fixatives : SKATOLES
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Hit song: 1930 : LITTLEWHITELIES
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___ trip : EGO
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A Met score : ARIA
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"___ Again ... ": 1972 hit song : ALONE
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Discovery : FIND
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Salinger heroine et al. : ESMES
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Garbo's supposed rival : STEN
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"For want of ___ ... " : ANAIL
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Black tea : PEKOE
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Vein glory : ORE
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He wrote "A Stillness at Appomattox" : CATTON
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Bruce and Laura of films : DERNS
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He got the votes yesterday! : ELECTEE
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Politico, at times : DEBATER
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Poet Doolittle : HILDA
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Strauss opera : SALOME
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Warpage sign : SAG
49
" ... that sweet golden ___": Blake : CLIME
51
French historian: 1842-1906 : SOREL
52
Estofado pot : OLLA
54
Checks : STEMS
56
Marquette was one : PERE
57
Guanaco's next of kin : LLAMA
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Rough waters : RIPS
61
Muslim title : AGA
62
Probabilities : VERISIMILITUDES
66
Atomic particle : ELECTRON
67
Power once in films : TYRONE
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Did an usher's job : RESEATED
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Employs muscle power : EXERTS
Down
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"The ___," 1948 Hope film : PALEFACE
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Prototype : ORIGINAL
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Explode : DETONATE
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Benday item : DOT
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Eugene O'Neill's mother : ELLA
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Steel-plow pioneer : DEERE
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Mortified : ASHAMED
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Copy Killy : SKI
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Opportune : PAT
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Williamsburg willow : ITEA
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Shoots the dice : ROLLS
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Former San Francisco mayor : ALIOTO
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Youthful one : TEENER
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Ancient Jewish monastic : ESSENE
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Smoke curl : WISP
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Discard : DITCH
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___ out (made do) : EKED
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Lesions : SORES
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Living in rapid currents: Ecol. : LOTIC
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Below, in Boulogne : ENBAS
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Dickens's Trent et al. : NELLS
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Shropshire's other name : SALOP
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Emulate Charles Merz : EDIT
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Opera's Escamillo, for one : TOREADOR
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On the rise : EMERGENT
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Issuances by P.R. people : RELEASES
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Cree or Ute : AMERIND
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Successful shamus : SOLVER
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Genetic form : ALLELE
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If-looks-could-kill looks : GLARES
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Jannings of films : EMIL
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Priest's nape covering : AMICE
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Petty ill will : SPITE
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Hammett pooch : ASTA
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River to Hades : STYX
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N.Y.C. transit : IRT
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Doug ___, 76ers' coach : MOE
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Suffix for press : URE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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