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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Saturday, August 14, 1982

49-Across : Ballet point

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q V }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5 Grid has duplicate clues.
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,967
Across
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He took Romulus to heaven : MARS
5
Denizens of the Rockies : PIKAS
10
In the league's cellar : LAST
14
Ludwig or Jannings : EMIL
15
Wind: Comb. form : ANEMO
16
"It ___ laugh": Pinero : ISTO
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___-da (highfalutin) : LADI
18
Summer TV program : RERUN
19
Fissure; crack : CHAP
20
Comical trio : THEMARXBROTHERS
23
Question in a children's game : MAYI
24
Hannibal, to Scipio : FOE
25
Paint-plant employee : TONER
28
Check erosion : SOD
31
James Dean role: 1955 : REBEL
35
Vous ___ : ETES
36
Small evergreens : ATLEES
38
Mayan, e.g. : ERA
39
Comical trio : THETHREESTOOGES
42
Glowing : RED
43
"___ Song," John Denver hit : ANNIES
44
Dicer's verb : FADE
45
Indo-European : ARYAN
47
Inquiry sent out at the P.O. re a lost letter : TCR
48
Word with noon or math : AFTER
49
Ballet point : TOE
51
Speaker of a Hall of Fame : TRIS
53
Comical trio : THERITZBROTHERS
61
Fabled snowman : YETI
62
Oriental rug : HERAT
63
"Step ___!" : ONIT
64
Preprandial request : MENU
65
Santa ___ Park : ANITA
66
Where the Tevere flows : ROMA
67
Baby buggy in Bath : PRAM
68
Gallows item : NOOSE
69
Gershwin biographer : EWEN
Down
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Dissolve : MELT
2
Eastern nurse : AMAH
3
Tease : RIDE
4
Least obese : SLIMMEST
5
Evasive reply : PARRY
6
Like a dodo since 1681 : INEXISTENT
7
London sidewalk part : KERB
8
Sino-Russian river : AMUR
9
Sequel words : SONOF
10
Chinese nut : LICHEE
11
Court name : ASHE
12
What 11 Down was in the 70's : STAR
13
Aces' places : TOPS
21
Thun's stream : AAR
22
Body part : TORSO
25
Tropical fish : TETRA
26
___ side of the tracks : OTHER
27
Indigent : NEEDY
29
Derived from oil : OLEIC
30
Prospectors : DESERTRATS
32
Sired : BEGAT
33
Noted conductor from Genoa : EREDE
34
___ beam : LASER
36
Scottish alder : ARN
37
Diminutive suffixes : ETS
40
Southeast Asian capital : HANOI
41
Kind of breeze at Nantucket : OFFSHORE
46
Hall for Nero : ATRIUM
48
River island : AIT
50
Allen or Frome : ETHAN
52
Ben-Hur's wheels : ROTAE
53
Blast-furnace part : TYMP
54
German army : HEER
55
Heater of a sort : ETNA
56
Greek Stoic : ZENO
57
Vivacity : BRIO
58
Enough, to FitzGerald : ENOW
59
Snow crust : RIME
60
Stella's man in "A Streetcar ... " : STAN

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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