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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Thursday, January 20, 1977

46-Across : Hyderabad town

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 85, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 2, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,022
Across
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Flower and water : BEDS
5
Play a banjo : STRUM
10
Come-on : BAIT
14
Settled down : ALIT
15
Mineral from lake beds : TRONA
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"___ extra cost" : ATNO
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Man of the hour : JAMESEARLCARTER
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Shaky : UNSTEADY
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Places of worship : ALTARS
22
Corresponding : SAME
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Before : PRIORTO
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Pessimistic : GLOOMY
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Put up with : BROOK
28
Depict : LIMN
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U.S. ___ : GRANT
30
Bird : ERN
33
Significant time for 17 Across : INAUGURATIONDAY
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Refuse : BAR
38
Concerning : ANENT
39
Miss Adams : EDIE
40
Fortified : ARMED
41
Hooky player : TRUANT
43
Kind of bread or sonnet : ITALIAN
46
Hyderabad town : BHIR
47
" ... a worth that brings ___" : NORISK
48
Key to modern warfare : AIRPOWER
52
Key figure of 33 Across : THECHIEFJUSTICE
54
Baptism, e.g. : RITE
55
Emperor and Peter : NEROS
56
Age or horse : IRON
57
Monosaccharides : OSES
58
Mortar for joints : GROUT
59
Money unit : CENT
Down
1
Malay jacket : BAJU
2
Verve : ELAN
3
Grows faint : DIMS
4
DeLand, Fla., campus : STETSONU
5
Like laundry air : STEAMY
6
Clientele : TRADE
7
Calhoun : RORY
8
Infinite: Abbr. : UNL
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" ... and called it ___" : MACARONI
10
Composer Béla : BARTOK
11
Perfume : ATTAR
12
Lifeless : INERT
13
Trunk : TORSO
18
Sew together : SEAM
19
West Coast mayor : ALIOTO
23
Brooklyn institute : PRATT
24
Verbose : GLIB
25
Director Wertmuller : LINA
26
Bradley : OMAR
27
Kind of new : BRAND
29
Back or horn : GREEN
30
Norse saga : EDDA
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Weather word : RAIN
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U.N. veto : NYET
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Ostentatious : GARISH
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Ruination : UNMAKING
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Full of anxieties : NEUROTIC
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Marble and Faye : ALICES
41
Pushing force : THRUST
42
Turgid waters : RIPS
43
Emcee's chore : INTRO
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African reedbucks : TOHIS
45
Mountain ridge : ARETE
46
Jewel : BIJOU
48
Hair style : AFRO
49
Chicken or live : WIRE
50
Financial: Abbr. : ECON
51
Sublease : RENT
53
Always, in poems : EER

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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