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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Friday, November 26, 1982

26-Across : His work is the pits

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 11, XRef: 1, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry.
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,071
Across
1
London party : BASH
5
Spanish wheat : TRIGO
10
Bunks : KIPS
14
Puzzler's lake : ERIE
15
Her face launched ships : HELEN
16
A result of cerebration : IDEA
17
Rue ___ Paix : DELA
18
Happening : EVENT
19
___ me tangere : NOLI
20
Demolition acquisition : SALVAGE
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Fastened, in a way : TOGGLED
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Etc.'s sister : ETAL
25
K.P. item : SPUD
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His work is the pits : STONER
29
___ toes (alert) : ONONES
33
Guitar device : CAPO
34
___ Atonement : DAYOF
38
Prefix for rhyme or rail : MONO
39
"___ o'clock scholar" : ATEN
40
Oust : EVICT
41
Preminger : OTTO
42
Peacock-feather product : MARL
43
Beethoven's last symphony : NINTH
44
Worry : FRET
45
"___ thy father ... ": Matt. 6:6 : PRAYTO
47
Volatile liquids : ETHERS
49
Languid states : KEFS
51
Bird's "word" : TWEE
52
S.R.O. spectator : STANDEE
55
Kind of novel : ROMANCE
59
Cathay traveler : POLO
60
Library gadget : DATER
62
Actress Miles : VERA
63
Again : ANEW
64
Ancestral land : ETHEL
65
Circus sight in London : EROS
66
Golfers' needs : TEES
67
Extremely: Colloq. : NOEND
68
Slangy negative : NOPE
Down
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See 10 Across : BEDS
2
Kind of rug : AREA
3
Horizontal timber : SILL
4
"It's a mystery!" : HEAVENONLYKNOWS
5
Book by Max Brand : THEGARDENOFEDEN
6
Make whoopee : REVEL
7
O'Neill play : ILE
8
Polite blokes : GENTS
9
Sitting pretty : ONTOPOFTHEWORLD
10
"For the ___ is at hand": Matt. 3:2 : KINGDOMOFHEAVEN
11
Groupies' hero : IDOL
12
Retired soccer star : PELE
13
Port ___, Egypt : SAID
21
Ingested : ATE
23
Gatling, e.g. : GUN
26
Picaro : SCAMP
27
Turkic language : TATAR
28
Setting for a Marx Brothers film : OPERA
30
___ Dame : NOTRE
31
Inscribe : ENTER
32
Chimney offshoots : SOOTS
35
Prefix with culture or fauna : AVI
36
Yang's partner : YIN
37
Fall mo. : OCT
46
Bandleader Weems : TED
48
Pro ___ : TEM
50
Ex-alliance : SEATO
51
Woodenware : TREEN
52
Quarrel : SPAT
53
Add color : TONE
54
Protected at sea : ALEE
56
Noted pianist : NERO
57
Photo editor's order : CROP
58
Ill at ___ : EASE
61
Tea, in Toulouse : THE

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

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