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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Wednesday, February 6, 1980

27-Across : Defames

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,047
Across
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Taro or skunk cabbage : AROID
6
Spot for Zeno's lessons : STOA
10
Composer of 43 operas : PAER
14
Erstwhile N.Y.C. transportation : STREETCARS
16
Bancroft in "The Turning Point" : EMMA
17
Semitic languages : HEBREWANDARABIC
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Kind of curve : ESS
20
Person born Aug. 23-Sept. 22 : VIRGO
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Source of strength : UNITY
22
Apportion : METE
23
Baton Rouge team : LSU
24
Leyte's neighbor : SAMAR
27
Defames : SPATTERS
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Kind of sch. : ELEM
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Part of A.D. : DOMINI
35
Piper follower : RAT
36
Where 17 Across are spoken : TELAVIVANDCAIRO
39
What epigones do : APE
40
Glorifies : EXALTS
41
Paper measure : REAM
42
Porter's "In ___ of the Night" : THESTILL
44
Confused : ATSEA
45
Salt Lake City athlete : UTE
46
Prevailing fashion : MODE
48
Wicker's "___ to Die" : ATIME
51
"Never ___ bedims the eye": Harte : ATEAR
53
Comedienne Charlotte : RAE
56
How 17 Across are written : FROMRIGHTTOLEFT
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Mass, for example : RITE
60
Gov. Edwards is one : LOUISIANAN
61
Pres. Bongo of Gabon : OMAR
62
They're sold by the dozen : EGGS
63
Prefix for meter or spore : TETRA
Down
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Tennis ace : ASHE
2
Hwys. : RTES
3
Forms into a disk : ORBS
4
Comparative suffix : IER
5
Heroic Kipling soldier : DEEVER
6
Kind of crow or head : SCARE
7
File's projecting point : TANG
8
Church calendar : ORDO
9
" ... lonely ___ cloud" : ASA
10
Shrimp : PEANUT
11
Both: Prefix : AMBI
12
Send out : EMIT
13
Risqué : RACY
15
Play the ribber : TWIT
18
Lacking polish : RUSTIC
22
Cry from a nursery : MAMA
23
Touches down : LANDS
24
Attack : SETAT
25
Alpha, in Israel : ALEPH
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Rowdydow : MELEE
27
Kind of change or fry : SMALL
28
Two cups : PINT
29
Iroquoian tribesmen : ERIES
30
___ aves : RARAE
31
Mouthlike opening : STOMA
33
Whistler's tune : DIXIE
34
Stadium shape : OVAL
37
Swedish lake : VETTER
38
Comedian Johnson : ARTE
43
What "one swallow maketh not" : SUMMER
44
Dexterous : ADROIT
46
Half-breed : METIS
47
Horse fare : OATS
48
Hairdo : AFRO
49
Work on hedges : TRIM
50
Between theta and kappa : IOTA
51
Excited : AGOG
52
Hood : THUG
53
Household expense : RENT
54
Distant : AFAR
55
Europe's largest volcano : ETNA
57
___ du Diable : ILE
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New Guinean port : LAE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 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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