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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Wednesday, October 7, 1992

42-Across : Undecided

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 257 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
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. 15,674
Across
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Bat's hangout : CAVE
5
Featherhead : FOOL
9
Film having several sequels : RAMBO
14
Biblical race of giants : ANAK
15
Nagy of Hungary : IMRE
16
Model : IDEAL
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Indefinite : UNCERTAIN
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Like a pigskin : OVATE
20
Date cultivated in Egypt : SAIDI
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Holds back; demurs : HESITATES
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Pipe fitting : ELL
24
Santa's lump for a brat : COAL
26
Predator's pad : DEN
27
Satyr's look : LEER
29
What Perot has made : FORTUNE
33
At sixes and sevens : INATURMOIL
37
On ___ with (equal) : APAR
38
Stick-on item : NOTE
39
"Cruellest month" agcy. : IRS
40
"___ of My Dreams" : GIRL
41
Party ending : GOER
42
Undecided : ONTHEFENCE
45
Ambush : ENSNARE
47
It's used in tobacco curing : OAST
48
Caravansary : INN
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Rave's partner : RANT
51
Casual greetings : HIS
54
One who explodes vocally : SPUTTERER
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Emissary : AGENT
60
A collectible : CURIO
61
Waver : OSCILLATE
63
Extrinsic : ALIEN
64
Neck and neck : TIED
65
Ouse feeder : AIRE
66
Cluttered up : MESSY
67
Within: Comb. form : ENDO
68
Where hoods get goods : DROP
Down
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Bring on : CAUSE
2
Chronicle : ANNAL
3
Blows hot and cold : VACILLATES
4
___ out (managed barely) : EKED
5
Tailor's concern : FIT
6
Famed horse or city : OMAHA
7
Window for plants : ORIEL
8
It's behind the iris : LENS
9
Mob-scene participant : RIOTER
10
Edges : ADVANTAGES
11
Couscous ingredient : MEAT
12
Diminish : BATE
13
Sounds at a "bull session" : OLES
18
Houston campus : RICEU
22
False god : IDOL
25
Ice ace, once : ORR
28
Long waiting periods, seemingly : ETERNITIES
29
Plaice or dace : FISH
30
Unresolved : UPINTHEAIR
31
User's accuser : NARC
32
A rival of Agatha : ERLE
33
Pulitzer dramatist: 1953 : INGE
34
Chime time : NOON
35
Locale for a stope or stulm : MINE
36
Leftover : ORT
42
River into Bay of the Seine : ORNE
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Geology term : EON
44
"___ Attraction" : FATAL
46
Caesar's mourner : ANTONY
49
Copal or mastic : RESIN
50
On a curved path : ARCED
52
Job for an emcee : INTRO
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Very costly : STEEP
54
Thimblerig, e.g. : SCAM
55
Pour out the whines : PULE
56
"The Haj" author : URIS
57
Repetition : ROTE
59
Happy : GLAD
62
Half a Broadway title : IDO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 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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