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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Saturday, October 10, 1981

10-Down : Bore or pest

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 2, Spans: 3, 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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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,659
Across
1
Fort in 1836 headlines : ALAMO
6
Baker's predecessor : ABLE
10
At hand : NEAR
14
Brazilian city on the Pará : BELEM
15
Unflustered : COOL
16
Cubitus : ULNA
17
Wag's definition of a fine farmer, with 22 Across : AMANOUTSTANDING
20
Mocking : SARDONIC
21
Follow : ENSUE
22
Continuation of 17 Across : INHISFIELD
25
Transmit : IMPART
30
When the lights go on : DUSK
31
Valley for an astronaut to explore : RILLE
32
Unruffled : CALM
34
He wrote "The Bells" : POE
37
What the society butcher considered himself to be : ACUTABOVEOTHERS
41
Nails holder : KEG
42
Mosque of ___ : OMAR
43
Stone weight : CARAT
44
"___ Do Is Dream of You" : ALLI
46
Acoustical : AUDILE
47
How the witty surgeon left his patients : INSTITCHES
52
Lariat : RIATA
53
One in taxing circumstances : ASSESSEE
59
Where the enlightened electrician excels : INCURRENTEVENTS
62
Observed : SEEN
63
Sioux : OTOE
64
West ___, half of New Guinea : IRIAN
65
Roll-call response : HERE
66
Dam : WEIR
67
Apostasy : LAPSE
Down
1
Command to a French poodle? : ABAS
2
Tony ___, memorable golfer : LEMA
3
Winged : ALAR
4
Heal : MEND
5
"Typee" follower : OMOO
6
Muscle protein : ACTIN
7
Painter Hieronymus ___ : BOSCH
8
Destiny : LOT
9
Guidonian note : ELA
10
Bore or pest : NUDNIK
11
Beethoven's "Für ___" : ELISE
12
Cancel : ANNUL
13
Went on a temperamental tear : RAGED
18
Army outfit : UNIT
19
Ship-shaped clocks : NEFS
23
Samuel Johnson's "The ___" : IDLER
24
Wrestling, in Tokyo : SUMO
25
Baghdad's land : IRAK
26
Symbols of quietness : MICE
27
Commercial : PLUG
28
Stop sign, in Roma : ALT
29
U.S. cartoonist : REA
32
Kind of relief : COMIC
33
One of Lana's contemporaries : AVA
34
Belle : PERI
35
Buccal : ORAL
36
This, in Toledo : ESTE
38
Leave suddenly : BOLT
39
Fort Worth campus : TCU
40
"If I ___ a Hammer" : HAD
44
Put on the same wave length : ATTUNE
45
One given to tergiversation : LIAR
46
Fox hunted by a Boer : ASSE
47
Kind of stew or potato : IRISH
48
Shoe size : NINEE
49
Holy, to Horace : SACER
50
Milieu for Le Duan : HANOI
51
Nitrite is one : ESTER
54
Malefic : EVIL
55
Disease preventives : SERA
56
Short, quick cut : SNIP
57
Greek letters : ETAS
58
Feudal flunky : ESNE
60
Hassle : ROW
61
Saison for Sébastien : ETE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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