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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Wednesday, September 17, 1986

39-Across : Star of 20 Across

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 4, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 27.7
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,462
Across
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Diplomat's forte : TACT
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Cordage fiber : SISAL
10
Equipment : GEAR
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Khayyám : OMAR
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Me. town : ORONO
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Like a fabled duckling : UGLY
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Indian princess : RANI
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Put on cargo : LADED
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A gait : LOPE
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U.S. film debut of 39 Across : THEBLUEANGEL
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Break bread : EAT
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___ advocate : DEVILS
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Fleur-de-___ : LIS
30
Chanteuse Edith : PIAF
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A "Stagecoach" star: 1939 : DEVINE
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Before, to Byron : ERE
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Straw in the wind : OMEN
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Pay up : REMIT
39
Star of 20 Across : MARLENEDIETRICH
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"It's ___!" : ADEAL
44
Invalid : NULL
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Ring initials : TKO
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Busybodies : YENTAS
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Undress : PEEL
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Draft agcy. : SSS
51
Stew : SEETHE
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Limo occupant : VIP
55
Role for 39 Across : SHANGHAILILY
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This may come to shove : PUSH
64
Attack : RUNAT
65
Mars, to 54 Down : ARES
66
Exchange rate : AGIO
67
Poetry Muse : ERATO
68
Bag opener : TOTE
69
Hot-day word : WHEW
70
Hinder : DETER
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___ about (approximately) : ONOR
Down
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Legal wrong : TORT
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Oriental nurse : AMAH
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Walking aid : CANE
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Levites, e.g. : TRIBE
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Holmes's aim : SOLUTION
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Dies ___ : IRAE
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Kind of jerk or pop : SODA
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Put ___ to (finish off) : ANEND
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Stayed at an inn : LODGED
10
Traveler to Lilliput : GULLIVER
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Type of trip : EGO
12
Swiss peak : ALP
13
Manhattan part : RYE
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Track distance : LAP
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Turn inside out : EVERT
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Restrains : LIMITS
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Shaving mishaps : SNICKS
27
Air Force general Curtis : LEMAY
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Sultans' decrees : IRADES
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Placid : SERENE
31
Sanction : AMEN
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Surfeited : FEDUP
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Group character : ETHOS
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What the Aswan dams : NILE
40
Wee-hour movie : LATESHOW
41
Gulf of Aqaba port : ELATH
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Londoner's lift : ELEVATOR
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Split the take : SHARED
49
Number of cards in Caesar's deck? : LII
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Harden : ENURE
54
"The Republic" author : PLATO
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Flying pest : GNAT
57
Love's antithesis : HATE
58
Item to pump : IRON
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Apollo's mother : LETO
60
North Sea feeder : YSER
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Clumsy hand : PAW
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Expression of disgust : UGH
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"Sprechen ___ Deutsch?" : SIE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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