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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Tuesday, November 12, 1991

15-Across : Sedgwick bio

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 303 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,344
Across
1
Research area : FILES
6
Like many a hoopster : LANK
10
Pool-hall triangle : RACK
14
Teen's future status : ADULT
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Sedgwick bio : EDIE
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Dugout : ABRI
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Northern beast : TIMBERWOLF
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Wind sound : MOAN
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Complain loudly : BEWAIL
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Way to go : ROUTE
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Maria's musical start : AVE
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Hornblower's creator : CSFORESTER
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Unruffled : SERENE
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Expansive : WIDE
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Mayhem is one : CRIME
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Prattled : RANON
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Some M.D.'s : GPS
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V.P. before Ford : AGNEW
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Put on hold : ICE
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She comes back to Harpo : OPRAH
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Cribbage tool : PEG
42
Shaker's partner : MOVER
44
Jamaican P.M.: 1980-89 : SEAGA
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It holds two or three : SOFA
46
Fresh and young : VERNAL
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Eden plant : TREEOFLIFE
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Blaster's material : TNT
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They're hunks : HEMEN
54
Provincial : NARROW
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Publius Ovidius Naso : OVID
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A top pitcher of the 1930's : LEFTYGROVE
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Fish that's delish? : SOLE
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Arch or molding : OGEE
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Quatre preceder : TROIS
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Liquid holder : EWER
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Comment : WORD
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Mubarak's predecessor : SADAT
Down
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Diet no-no : FAT
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March 15, in Milano : IDI
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Moving like an elephant : LUMBERING
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North Sea feeder : ELBE
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Mental morass : STEW
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He wrote "Dodsworth" : LEWIS
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Hermann's boss : ADOLF
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Zilch : NIL
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Languor, Arabian style : KEF
10
Having branches : RAMOSE
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Circa : ABOUT
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Jalopy : CRATE
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A Mets' announcer : KINER
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The Iditarod, for one : RACE
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Rudolph has one : REDNOSE
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Musical org. : ASCAP
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Edge : VERGE
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He's got a title : OWNER
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"___ Bravo," 1959 Wayne film : RIO
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Scottish uncle : EME
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Sky sliver : NEWMOON
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Opponent : RIVAL
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Serve with verve : ACE
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"American Gothic" artist : GRANTWOOD
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Irreligious one : PAGAN
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"Thou ___ not ... " : SHALT
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For each : PER
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On a holiday : OFF
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Homophone for cedar : SEEDER
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Intensely : VERY
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They are over there : THOSE
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Pledge anew : REVOW
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Ezio's big role : EMILE
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Deduce : INFER
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Written on the wind : FATED
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They make up divs. : RGTS
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Odd, in Edinburgh : ORRA
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Cartoonist David : LOW
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Personality : EGO
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Caesar's way : VIA
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Bangor time : EST

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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