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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Friday, April 10, 1992

45-Across : Least common

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5 Grid has duplicate clues.
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,494
Across
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Crafts' companion : ARTS
5
Active person : DOER
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Up to the moment : SOFAR
14
Slow emission : SEEP
15
Sedgwick bio : EDIE
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One at ___ : ATIME
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Japanese syllabic script : KANA
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Actor Andrews : TIGE
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Scrubbed up : LAVED
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Chip shot : APPROACH
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Wood borers : AUGERS
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Jacob's third son : LEVI
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First-rate : TIPTOP
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Expressing a reason : CAUSAL
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Went like sixty : TORE
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Service call : LET
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Resource : ASSET
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Chinese: Comb. form : SINO
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Diminutive suffix : ULA
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Tokyo, once : EDO
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Mother of the Titans : GAEA
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Critical judgment : TASTE
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Trifle : SOU
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Certain sculptures or paintings : ARPS
44
More cunning : WILIER
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Least common : RAREST
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TV's Trebek : ALEX
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Flat croquette : CUTLET
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"___ goodness!" : HONESTTO
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___ a million : ONEIN
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Londoner, e.g. : BRIT
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Substance : MEAT
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Tuscan city : SIENA
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___-majesté : LESE
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A Saarinen : EERO
60
Shades : TONES
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___ off (angry) : TEED
62
Dirs. : NNES
Down
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"___ silly question ... " : ASKA
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Use a sickle : REAP
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TWENTY-FOUR : TENPLUSFOURTEEN
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Extra car keys, e.g. : SPARESET
5
Specify : DETAIL
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Lyrical : ODIC
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TWENTY-FOUR : EIGHTTIMESTHREE
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One of the Caddoes : REE
9
Show high regard for : SALUTE
10
New Zealand harbor : OTAGO
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TWENTY-ONE : FIVEPLUSSIXTEEN
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Pt. of U.S.A. : AMER
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Beatty's Oscar film : REDS
21
Like a football : OVATE
22
Front part of a stage floor : APRON
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Ancient region of Asia Minor : IONIA
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Left Bank meeting places : CAFES
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"Do as I say, not ___" : ASIDO
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Choice group : ELITE
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Assessor : TAXER
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Cinches : SNAPS
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Heron : EGRET
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Practical : UTILE
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Loman's colleagues : SALESMEN
43
ARCO and Reunion : ARENAS
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Poster heading : WANTED
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Do a brakes job : ALINE
48
Something to be counted : COST
49
Mussel used by button makers : UNIO
51
Seine feeder : OISE
52
Darnel : TARE
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Okla. Indians : OTOS
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Deli order : BLT

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

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