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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Saturday, March 4, 1989

17-Across : Emulate L.M.M.

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 11, XRef: 2, 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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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,361
Across
1
Time, e.g. : AGER
5
Rope source : HEMP
9
An "Untouchable" : NESS
13
___ noire : BETE
14
Soviet range : URALS
16
VIII : OCTO
17
Emulate L.M.M. : EATCURDSANDWHEY
20
Pick up the tab : TREAT
21
Part of a W.S. title : ASYOU
22
W.W. II agcy. : OPA
23
King Cole : NAT
25
Where Tabriz is : IRAN
27
Emulate P. : PUTTHEKETTLEON
34
Palindromic word : ERE
35
Slammer : STIR
36
He ruled 25 Across : SHAH
38
Penn Sta. line : LIRR
40
Sign up : ENROL
43
London gallery : TATE
44
"G.W.T.W." spread : TARA
45
Olive for Ovid : OLEA
47
"Norma ___" : RAE
48
Emulate H.D. : HAVEAGREATFALL
53
Not in use : IDLE
54
___ Nidre, prayer of atonement : KOL
55
"___ Little Spanish Town" : INA
58
Architectural order : IONIC
61
Three-card ___ : MONTE
65
Emulate O.M.H. : GOTOTHECUPBOARD
68
Italian noble family : ESTE
69
Fend off : AVERT
70
Kind of race : DRAG
71
This is shed : TEAR
72
Code or rug preceder : AREA
73
Ditto : SAME
Down
1
Help a yegg : ABET
2
Machine part : GEAR
3
Room addition : ETTE
4
Emulate Galileo : RECANT
5
"Ben-___" : HUR
6
Operatic goddess : ERDA
7
Part of E = mc² : MASS
8
What Bogey said to Sam : PLAYIT
9
Typing-test beginner : NOW
10
Reverberate : ECHO
11
Word from the moon : STEP
12
Bean for the lean : SOYA
15
Audible whiff : SNORT
18
Western Indians : UTAHS
19
Having a double nature : DUAL
24
Parisian head : TETE
26
Nutcracker's suite : NEST
27
Stone : PELT
28
Heep : URIAH
29
___ firma : TERRA
30
Aunt and uncle, e.g. : KIN
31
Diamond flaw : ERROR
32
A dweller at 44 Across : OHARA
33
Of birth : NATAL
37
Villain : HEEL
39
Sitarist Shankar : RAVI
41
Corrida cry : OLE
42
White House problem : LEAK
46
" ... a monument, without ___": Ben Jonson re W.S. : ATOMB
49
What diaskeuasts do : EDIT
50
Hilo greeting : ALOHA
51
League of Nations site : GENEVA
52
Inundations : FLOODS
55
"___ no kick ... " : IGET
56
A sensor : NOSE
57
"___ Troll," Heine poem : ATTA
59
Bakery employee : ICER
60
Tan, in a way : CURE
62
Japanese city : NARA
63
Jazzman's trombone : TRAM
64
What the house has at Reno : EDGE
66
"___ the ramparts ... " : OER
67
School org. : PTA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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