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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Tuesday, May 18, 1982

67-Across : Like a sluiceway

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 59, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,879
Across
1
Start of a Dickens title : ATALE
6
Dine : SUP
9
Share : SPLIT
14
Stockholder's bonanza : MELON
15
Siouan language : OTO
16
Gunwale pin : THOLE
17
Saroyan play, with "The" : BEAUTIFULPEOPLE
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N.Y.S.E. listing : ITT
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Preppie's word of address : SIR
22
River or dynasty : HAN
23
Saroyan novel : THEHUMANCOMEDY
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Monosaccharide : OSE
30
Alfonso's title : REY
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First-rate : AOK
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In ___ (beset by troubles) : ASPOT
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Unkempt one : SLOB
38
Sewing kit : ETUI
39
Saroyan drama : THECAVEDWELLERS
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Gypsy ___ : MOTH
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Produce income : EARN
44
Pentagon workers : AIDES
45
Possessive : OUR
46
L followers : MNO
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Steel tool : DIE
48
Saroyan play, with "The" : TIMEOFYOURLIFE
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Kind of curve : ESS
56
Pique : IRE
57
P. Hearst's captors : SLA
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Saroyan short story : LOVEHEREISMYHAT
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Official order : UKASE
65
Culbertson : ELY
66
"The Wreck of the Mary ___" : DEARE
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Like a sluiceway : GATED
68
Seraglio room : ODA
69
Circus headliner : TAMER
Down
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Bounds or limits : AMBIT
2
What effective law has : TEETH
3
Winged : ALATE
4
Asner role : LOU
5
Suffix with differ : ENT
6
European capital : SOFIA
7
Often illegal car maneuver : UTURN
8
Ward heeler : POL
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Vaporous : STEAMY
10
Sound: Comb. form : PHONE
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Be pendent : LOP
12
A neighbor of Ind. : ILL
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Ball raiser : TEE
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"Woe ___!" : ISME
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Flycatcher : PHOEBE
24
Booze : HOOCH
25
Amer. sports group : USTA
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Cap's cousin : CROWN
27
Outmoded : DATED
28
"___ the Top" : YOURE
32
Gentle contact : KISS
33
Air: Comb. form : ATMO
34
Yell : SHOUT
35
Bacteriologist's ___ dish : PETRI
36
___ Galilee : SEAOF
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One in charge: Abbr. : LDR
38
Eero Saarinen's father : ELIEL
40
Highly veined, as flies' wings : VENOSE
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Cougar's bed : LAIR
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Dovetailed : MESHED
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Club fees : DUES
49
Reagan's Ed : MEESE
50
Ramp sign : YIELD
51
Sanskrit tongue : ORIYA
52
Bandleader Jones : ISHAM
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Distress signal : FLARE
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Fork wielder : EATER
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Kind of wrench : LUG
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River to the Volga : OKA
60
Cistern : VAT
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One of Old's cars : REO
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Not extreme: Abbr. : MDT
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Truly : YEA

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

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