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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Saturday, April 25, 1992

49-Across : Japanese astronomer

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { H J W X Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
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. 15,509
Across
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Hemingway nickname : PAPA
5
Support : PROP
9
Reduced : PARED
14
Down with, in Dijon : ABAS
15
Impertinent : RUDE
16
Convex molding : OVOLO
17
Harboring a temperate virus : LYSOGENIC
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Dravidian tongue : TAMIL
20
In the manner of: Suffixes : ESQUES
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Agent for action : CATALYST
23
Initials at Columbus : OSU
24
Legal matter : RES
26
Christmas cheer : NOG
27
Licenses, e.g. : IDENTS
30
Flunkies : YESMEN
35
Growing white : CANESCENT
38
Fashion : STYLE
39
Buccal : ORAL
40
Hebrew prophet, Douay style : ELIAS
42
Land east of the Urals : ASIA
43
Serving tool : LADLE
45
A hawk : ACCIPITER
47
Visionary : DREAMY
49
Japanese astronomer : KIMURA
50
Sound measure : BEL
52
Male sheep, in Stoke : TUP
53
Hiatus : GAP
56
Let air out : DEFLATED
61
___ Venezia (Italian resort) : LIDODI
63
Roué, at times : OGLER
64
The Ten Commandments : DECALOGUE
66
"Nothing ___!" : DOING
67
Single-foot, e.g. : GAIT
68
Devoted group : CULT
69
Bone: Comb. form : OSTEO
70
Art Deco name : ERTE
71
Dog salmon : KETA
Down
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Primitive: Comb. form : PALEO
2
Chasm : ABYSS
3
Satire : PASQUINADE
4
"Not ___ had he got ... ": R. H. Barham : ASOU
5
Stately bearing : PRESENCE
6
Nylons spoiler : RUN
7
Lyrical : ODIC
8
___ pie : PECAN
9
Thick soups : POTAGES
10
Grandfatherly : AVAL
11
Schneider of films : ROMY
12
Cantabs' rivals : ELIS
13
Buffoon : DOLT
18
Actor Richard and family : GERES
22
Yoyo, for one : TOY
25
Grave marker : STELA
28
Street or Reese : DELLA
29
Snee's partner : SNICK
31
Kind of case or way : STAIR
32
Interpreter of religious doctrines : MYSTAGOGUE
33
Faure or Wiesel : ELIE
34
At hand : NEAR
35
Algid : COLD
36
Sandarac tree : ARAR
37
Implied : TACIT
41
Feign : SIMULATE
44
Trade restraint : EMBARGO
46
Aristotle, to Plato : PUPIL
48
Still : YET
51
Shelf : LEDGE
54
Mature : ADULT
55
Famed statue : PIETA
56
Boob : DODO
57
They drive us : EGOS
58
Move erratically : FLIT
59
Unaspirated consonant : LENE
60
Letter opener : DEAR
62
Stevedore's milieu : DOCK
65
Townsman : CIT

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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