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Tap Osborn
New York Times, Thursday, January 20, 1977
24-Down : Verbose
Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 85, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 2, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
1 B | 2 E | 3 D | 4 S | 5 S | 6 T | 7 R | 8 U | 9 M | 10 B | 11 A | 12 I | 13 T |
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14 A | L | I | T | 15 T | R | O | N | A | 16 A | T | N | O |
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17 J | A | M | E | 18 S | E | A | R | L | C | 19 A | R | T | E | R |
20 U | N | S | T | E | A | D | Y | 21 A | L | T | A | R | S |
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22 S | A | M | E | 23 P | R | I | O | R | T | O |
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24 G | 25 L | 26 O | O | M | Y | 27 B | R | O | O | K | ||||
28 L | I | M | N | 29 G | R | A | N | T | 30 E | 31 R | 32 N |
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33 I | N | A | U | 34 G | 35 U | R | A | T | I | O | 36 N | D | A | Y |
37 B | A | R | 38 A | N | E | N | T | 39 E | D | I | E |
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40 A | R | M | E | D | 41 T | 42 R | U | A | N | T |
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43 I | 44 T | 45 A | L | I | A | N | 46 B | H | I | R | ||||
47 N | O | R | I | S | K | 48 A | I | R | P | O | 49 W | 50 E | 51 R |
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52 T | H | E | C | H | I | 53 E | F | J | U | S | T | I | C | E |
54 R | I | T | E | 55 N | E | R | O | S | 56 I | R | O | N |
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57 O | S | E | S | 58 G | R | O | U | T | 59 C | E | N | T |
© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,022
Across
1
Flower and water : BEDS
5
Play a banjo : STRUM
10
Come-on : BAIT
14
Settled down : ALIT
15
Mineral from lake beds : TRONA
16
"___ extra cost" : ATNO
17
Man of the hour : JAMESEARLCARTER
20
Shaky : UNSTEADY
21
Places of worship : ALTARS
22
Corresponding : SAME
23
Before : PRIORTO
24
Pessimistic : GLOOMY
27
Put up with : BROOK
28
Depict : LIMN
29
U.S. ___ : GRANT
30
Bird : ERN
33
Significant time for 17 Across : INAUGURATIONDAY
37
Refuse : BAR
38
Concerning : ANENT
39
Miss Adams : EDIE
40
Fortified : ARMED
41
Hooky player : TRUANT
43
Kind of bread or sonnet : ITALIAN
46
Hyderabad town : BHIR
47
" ... a worth that brings ___" : NORISK
48
Key to modern warfare : AIRPOWER
52
Key figure of 33 Across : THECHIEFJUSTICE
54
Baptism, e.g. : RITE
55
Emperor and Peter : NEROS
56
Age or horse : IRON
57
Monosaccharides : OSES
58
Mortar for joints : GROUT
59
Money unit : CENT
Down
1
Malay jacket : BAJU
2
Verve : ELAN
3
Grows faint : DIMS
4
DeLand, Fla., campus : STETSONU
5
Like laundry air : STEAMY
6
Clientele : TRADE
7
Calhoun : RORY
8
Infinite: Abbr. : UNL
9
" ... and called it ___" : MACARONI
10
Composer Béla : BARTOK
11
Perfume : ATTAR
12
Lifeless : INERT
13
Trunk : TORSO
18
Sew together : SEAM
19
West Coast mayor : ALIOTO
23
Brooklyn institute : PRATT
24
Verbose : GLIB
25
Director Wertmuller : LINA
26
Bradley : OMAR
27
Kind of new : BRAND
29
Back or horn : GREEN
30
Norse saga : EDDA
31
Weather word : RAIN
32
U.N. veto : NYET
34
Ostentatious : GARISH
35
Ruination : UNMAKING
36
Full of anxieties : NEUROTIC
40
Marble and Faye : ALICES
41
Pushing force : THRUST
42
Turgid waters : RIPS
43
Emcee's chore : INTRO
44
African reedbucks : TOHIS
45
Mountain ridge : ARETE
46
Jewel : BIJOU
48
Hair style : AFRO
49
Chicken or live : WIRE
50
Financial: Abbr. : ECON
51
Sublease : RENT
53
Always, in poems : EER
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 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.