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Vincent L. Osborne
Vincent L. Osborne

New York Times, Saturday, March 8, 1980

17-Across : Like some locks

Author:
Vincent L. Osborne
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Vincent L. Osborne has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,078
Across
1
Dumas swashbuckler : ATHOS
6
" ... With a ___ bodkin?": Hamlet : BARE
10
Ishmael's skipper : AHAB
14
Took an oath : SWORE
15
___ corner : AMEN
16
" ... libra nos a ___" : MALO
17
Like some locks : TIMED
18
Unimaginative rejoinder : SAMETOYOU
20
Partner of all or only : ONE
21
City on the Tanaro : ASTI
22
Balance-sheet item : ASSET
23
Scout : RECONNOITER
27
Elide : OMIT
28
Ensnared : TRAPPED
33
Swings around : SLUES
35
Sweet spire : ITEA
37
Ugly emotion : HATE
38
Roundhead, in British history : PARLIAMENTARIAN
41
Pre : ANTE
42
Little sea pike : SPET
43
With desperate intensity : MADLY
44
Having left a will : TESTATE
46
___-do : DOSI
47
Spirit of iconoclasm : IRREVERENCE
52
Occasion for reading the Haggadah : SEDER
56
___ du Salut : ILES
57
Zorro : FOX
58
Studding component : TWOBYFOUR
60
Angular : GAUNT
62
Gauze weave : LENO
63
Incipient twigs : BUDS
64
More competent : ABLER
65
Site of Santa Cruz citadel : ORAN
66
Clairvoyant's words : ISEE
67
Arkansas River oil city : TULSA
Down
1
Actress in "The Maltese Falcon" : ASTOR
2
Strong cord : TWINE
3
The 76ers' Spectrum, the Lakers' Forum, etc. : HOMECOURTS
4
Object of stoping : ORE
5
But, to Terence : SED
6
Profundo or buffo : BASSO
7
Stradivari's teacher : AMATI
8
Kind of fever : REMITTENT
9
Chemical suffix : ENE
10
Andy's sidekick : AMOS
11
Forms windrows : HAYS
12
Century plant : ALOE
13
Fifteen-rounder, e.g. : BOUT
19
Historic Irish hill : TARA
21
Social creature : ANT
24
Western, for one : OMELET
25
Nil ___ bonum : NISI
26
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
29
Something to coin : PHRASE
30
Receipt words : PAIDINFULL
31
Wds. after a list of names : ETAL
32
Do as Peter did thrice : DENY
33
Tiff : SPAT
34
Shipping route : LANE
35
Lordly : IMPERIOUS
36
Whence to drive : TEE
39
Tycho Brahe's sci. : ASTR
40
"Omnia vincit ___" : AMOR
45
Sprightly : AIRY
46
Josquin ___ Prés, Flemish composer : DES
48
Give the slip : ELUDE
49
Chapter's partner : VERSE
50
Squirrel's cache : CONES
51
One of a Hollywood crowd : EXTRA
52
Town almost destroyed in W.W. II : STLO
53
Pitcher : EWER
54
Lady of Toledo : DONA
55
Deep black : EBON
59
G-men : FBI
60
Heater : GAT
61
___ Simbel, on the Nile : ABU

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

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