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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Friday, September 26, 1980

52-Across : End of quotation

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,280
Across
1
Water channel : FLUME
6
Advantage : EDGE
10
___ de Calais : PAS
13
Complainer : GRIPER
14
Prexy's subordinate : VEEP
15
Pforzheim pronoun : ICH
16
Start of a Steele quotation : READINGISTO
18
Quotation: Part 2 : THE
19
Negatively charged particle : ANION
20
Noted British painter of birds : EDE
21
Stuffy or formal : STAID
23
Rudolf or Myra : HESS
24
Humdinger : ONER
25
Unfolded, to Keats : OPED
26
___ National Park, Japan : ASO
27
Be sparing : STINT
28
Work like a dog : SLAVE
29
Quotation: Part 3 : MINDWHAT
31
Warship training device, sans ammo : DOTTER
32
Angling adjunct : REEL
33
Republic's name: 1937-49 : EIRE
34
Show up : APPEAR
37
Quotation: Part 4 : EXERCISE
41
Kind of eclipse : SOLAR
42
Cheap; inferior : TATTY
43
Former Soho coin : SOV
44
He was formed from dust : ADAM
45
Celebrated toxophilite : EROS
46
Title Agatha Christie held : DAME
47
Washer cycle : RINSE
49
Stock unit: Abbr. : SHR
50
Oxford official : BEDEL
51
Passé : OUT
52
End of quotation : ISTOTHEBODY
55
Very little, in Dundee : SMA
56
One-on-one combat : DUEL
57
Frog or toad : ANURAN
58
Suffix with Ruskin or Johnson : ESE
59
Blunted sword : EPEE
60
"Tatler" offering : ESSAY
Down
1
Artie Shaw gold platter of 1940 : FRENESI
2
Close bond or connection : LIAISON
3
Beehive coifs, e.g. : UPDOS
4
"___ Kampf" : MEIN
5
Bonebreaker's relative : ERN
6
Manifest : EVIDENT
7
Negev or Nefud : DESERT
8
Return of a difficult tennis shot : GET
9
Major work of poetry : EPOS
10
The sound of gentle rain : PITAPAT
11
Accomplish : ACHIEVE
12
Lobster about to molt : SHEDDER
13
Author Greene : GRAHAM
17
Friendly : GENIAL
22
Early Mexican Indian : TOLTEC
24
Capote's "___ Voices ... " : OTHER
27
___ off (renounce) : SWEAR
28
Abject : SORRY
30
" ... such stuff as ___ are made on": Shak. : DREAMS
31
Regimens : DIETS
33
Fleece by force : EXTORT
34
"Red ___ is she": Coleridge : ASAROSE
35
Places for orators : PODIUMS
36
A kingdom on earth : PLANTAE
37
Meatus : EARHOLE
38
Heroine of "Fear of Flying" : ISADORA
39
Friml song : SOMEDAY
40
One of the Waughs : EVELYN
42
Ph.D. applicant : TESTEE
46
Get off a jitney : DEBUS
48
Platonic concepts : EIDE
50
Franklin and Jonson : BENS
53
Dine : SUP
54
"Some ___ meat ... ": Burns : HAE

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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