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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Saturday, August 30, 1975

17-Across : DuQuoin, Ill., classic

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,513
Across
1
Make profitable use of : CASHINON
9
U. S. publisher : HEARST
15
On the button : ACCURATE
16
Allied : AGNATE
17
DuQuoin, Ill., classic : THEHAMBLETONIAN
19
Canned goods : TINS
20
___ of luxury : LAP
21
Bagnold : ENID
22
United : ONE
23
Hey there! : PST
26
Energy : VIM
28
Wine: Prefix : ENO
29
Rejects, for short : NGS
30
Card game : LOO
31
Spanish queen : ENA
32
Racket : DIN
33
Race pay-off : PURSE
35
Kind of flint : SKIN
37
Feature of some tracks : HARNESSRACING
41
Footless animal : APOD
42
Heathen : PAGAN
43
Taste : SIP
44
Ecology agcy. : EPA
47
Word with plop or chief : KER
48
Bikini top : BRA
51
Charlemagne's realm: Abbr. : HRE
52
Reel's companion : ROD
53
Baseball statistic : ERA
54
Steep : RET
55
Oslo name : OLAF
57
Apple, for short : MAC
59
Tokyo wrestling : SUMO
60
Riding great of 37 Across : WILLIAMHAUGHTON
65
Countless : UNTOLD
66
Roughen, old style : ASPERATE
67
Streisand hit song : PEOPLE
68
Ship distances : SEAMILES
Down
1
Civil War author : CATTON
2
Kind of back : ACHING
3
Play parts : SCENES
4
Relatives of ehs : HUHS
5
Gershwin : IRA
6
Business org. : NAM
7
Place to wager in N. Y. : OTB
8
Dickens girl : NELL
9
Handy weapon for women : HATPIN
10
Conceit : EGO
11
Bancroft : ANNE
12
Housebound by the weather : RAINEDIN
13
Working with wood color : STAINING
14
Achilles ___ : TENDON
18
House part : EAVE
23
Booty : PLUNDER
24
Miffed : SORE
25
Sleep fitfully : TOSS
27
Eye shadow : MASCARA
33
In favor of : PRO
34
Sixth sense : ESP
36
Relative : KIN
37
Receder of note : HAIRLINE
38
Attract : APPEALTO
39
Dissolute one : RAKE
40
Roman field : AGER
43
Appear : SHOWUP
45
Slickum for hair : POMADE
46
___ Smith : ADAM
48
Fierce : BRUTAL
49
Kind of control : REMOTE
50
Expiates : ATONES
56
Failure : FLOP
58
Lamb or Dickens, for short : CHAS
59
Hindu goddess : SHRI
61
Kind of will : ILL
62
Enzyme: Suffix : ASE
63
___ tree : UPA
64
Opal or garnet : GEM

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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