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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Saturday, January 21, 1984

41-Across : Ripener

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,492
Across
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Filmed a film again : REMADE
7
Bikini part : BRA
10
Rizzuto or Foster : PHIL
14
Exhibit : EVINCE
15
Corn unit : EAR
16
A Turner : LANA
17
Fast woman's dating list : TOMDICKANDHARRY
20
Prophet : SEER
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"I like ___" : IKE
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Deeds, to Dumas : ACTES
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Author Hunter : EVAN
26
Villa d'___ : ESTE
28
"___ body meet a body ... " : IFA
31
"Picnic" playwright : INGE
33
Beat : TEMPO
36
Fast woman's benefactor : SUGARDADDY
39
Between Ab and Tishri : ELUL
41
Ripener : AGER
42
Quaker gray : ACIER
43
Pure, in Ponce : NETO
44
___ aut nunquam (now or never) : NUNC
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Fast woman : BELLESTARR
47
Lucy's landlady : ETHEL
49
Chemical suffix : EINE
50
Kennedy, to friends : TED
51
Highlander's name : ALEC
53
Prohibit : VETO
55
Mountain pools : TARNS
58
Shad product : ROE
60
N.M. pueblo people : TAOS
64
Seeker of fast women, sometimes : STAGEDOORJOHNNY
68
High flier : KITE
69
Charged particle : ION
70
Overturns : UPENDS
71
Wax work : SEAL
72
Gene stuff : DNA
73
Basin or 42d : STREET
Down
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Soaks flax : RETS
2
Bacchanalian cry : EVOE
3
Marceau, e.g. : MIME
4
Malraux or Previn : ANDRE
5
What MCCII over II equals : DCI
6
Common Market inits. : EEC
7
Chicken's prominence : BEAK
8
Indian princess : RANEE
9
Dull ending : ARD
10
Task for a personnel officer : PLACEMENT
11
Stag : HART
12
Anent : INRE
13
Didion's "Play It As It ___" : LAYS
18
Blackjack natural : KINGACE
19
Abhor : HATE
24
Man, to Manlius : VIR
25
"Ready, willing ___" : ANDABLE
27
Foamy synthetic : STYRENE
28
"Life ___ end in itself ... ": O. W. Holmes : ISAN
29
Musical interweave : FUGUE
30
Ten-percenter : AGENT
32
Roman official : EDILE
34
Dress feature : PLEAT
35
Exaggerated : OUTRE
37
Heavenly title : ARCHANGEL
38
Transfer : DELIVER
40
Lady's man : LORD
46
Tennis grouping : SET
48
Threat word, with "or" : ELSE
52
Emulate Columbo : CROON
54
The ___ woman : OTHER
55
Comic-strip laments : TSKS
56
" ... ___ of sympathy": Emerson : ATIE
57
Pro ___ : RATA
59
Charlie's widow : OONA
61
Queenly name : ANNE
62
Waves on the Italian Riviera : ONDE
63
Group of RR's : SYST
65
Accomplished : DID
66
Gravy, in Grenoble : JUS
67
Pick : OPT

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 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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