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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Thursday, July 25, 1991

27-Across : Tuscan city

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { F J K Q W X Y }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,234
Across
1
Striped fish : BASS
5
Christmas ___, in a Dickens tale : PAST
9
Senate gofer : PAGE
13
Stone: Comb. form : LITH
14
John Denver album : AERIE
15
Viva-voce : ORAL
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Draft status : ONEA
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Tin lizzie : CRATE
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Idle : LAZE
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Résumé : CURRICULUMVITAE
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Chum : PAL
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Met : SAT
24
Post-W.W. II refugees : DPS
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Tuscan city : MASSA
31
Saturn's largest satellite : TITAN
35
Length-times-width product : AREA
37
Gossip-column unit : ITEM
38
What Caesar's "veni" means : ICAME
39
People in a legation : DIPLOMATICCORPS
42
Like some ale : ONTAP
43
Columnist Barrett : RONA
44
Treaty acronym : SALT
45
Institute : START
46
"There was ___ woman ... " : ANOLD
48
His or her, in Hérault : SES
49
Adventure beginner : MIS
51
Trunk part : LID
53
Unit of volume : CUBICCENTIMETER
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Rara ___ : AVIS
63
Fatty liquid : OLEIN
64
Actor Teeter : LARA
65
Dispatched : SENT
66
Activity for Niobe : RUING
67
Meadowlands event : TROT
68
Soviet press agency : TASS
69
"___ et lui": G. Sand : ELLE
70
Faulkner character : ANSE
Down
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Political group : BLOC
2
Japanese aborigine : AINU
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Gang follower : STER
4
On the ball : SHARP
5
Lima's land : PERU
6
Russian inland sea : ARAL
7
In ___ (in original position) : SITU
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Is aswarm : TEEMS
9
Ward heelers : POLITICOS
10
"How now! ___?": Hamlet : ARAT
11
Strip in the Mideast : GAZA
12
Loser to S. Grant : ELEE
14
Hail : ACCLAIM
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"___ a Camera" : IAM
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Of seers : VATIC
24
Sets into a groove : DADOS
25
Computer command : PRINT
26
Nose parts : SEPTA
28
___ Zagora, city in Bulgaria : STARA
29
First native-born U.S. saint : SETON
30
Acid type : AMINO
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Gogol's "___ Bulba" : TARAS
33
Enough : AMPLE
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Settles in cozily : NESTS
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Chicken Little et al. : ALARMISTS
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Relating to vision : OPTIC
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Profession : CALLING
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Opacate : DIM
50
Cross home plate : SCORE
52
Mekong ___ : DELTA
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Dramatis personae : CAST
54
Eye part : UVEA
55
Storage places : BINS
56
Month after Ab : ELUL
57
Diamond or Simon : NEIL
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Fork feature : TINE
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Mountain lake : TARN
60
Amor, to Plato : EROS
61
Grade : RATE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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