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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Friday, December 27, 1974

21-Down : Fleming

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,267
Across
1
Old Glory et al. : FLAGS
6
Ready for a hairpiece : BALD
10
Equal: Fr. : EGAL
14
Kind of jazz : REBOP
15
Money premium : AGIO
16
Petty taboo : NONO
17
Miss St. Johns : ADELA
18
Zero : NONE
19
Guinness : ALEC
20
Monetary expert of a kind : GOLDDIGGER
22
Old territory of West: Abbr. : DAK
23
Bell sound : PEAL
24
Rouses : STIRS
26
Holy: Prefix : SACR
29
School subject since the 1950's : NEWMATH
33
"The ___ Sea" : CRUEL
35
Critics' output : REVIEWS
38
"Gigi" star : HERMIONEGINGOLD
42
Baseball hits : TRIPLES
43
Subway coin : TOKEN
44
Revised : UPDATED
47
Swan woman : LEDA
48
Small person : PYGMY
51
Require : NEED
53
Marsupial, for short : ROO
54
Behavior code : GOLDENRULE
60
Lackadaisically : IDLY
62
Mine: Fr. : AMOI
63
North African city : TUNIS
64
Grant : CEDE
65
Meal time : NOON
66
Kefauver : ESTES
67
Verve : ELAN
68
Oriental bell : GONG
69
River of France : RHONE
Down
1
Easily broken: Abbr. : FRAG
2
India-Burma road of W. W. II : LEDO
3
Walter of films : ABEL
4
Certain monetary excess : GOLDPREMIUM
5
Garden tool : SPADE
6
Bracelet : BANGLE
7
Excited : AGOG
8
Queue : LINE
9
Go-getter : DOER
10
Spanish queen : ENA
11
"Three Bears" name, with 13 Down : GOLDI
12
At hand, poetically : ANEAR
13
See 11 Down : LOCKS
21
Fleming : IAN
24
Economize : STINT
25
Chaplin classic : THEGOLDRUSH
26
Place of learning: Abbr. : SCH
27
Reckon, in old days : ARET
28
Pigeon sound : CURR
30
Tear from : WREST
31
Alcott girl : MEG
32
Grandfathers: Lat. : AVI
34
Impudent : LIPPY
36
Roused : WOKE
37
Vehicle : SLED
39
___ Bailey : OLD
40
Teachers' org. : NEA
41
Nucleic acid : DNA
45
Story part : ENDING
46
Letter : DEE
48
Singer Leontyne : PRICE
49
Sing, in Berne : YODEL
50
Israeli name : GOLDA
52
Enroll : ENTER
54
Crowd : GANG
55
Melville novel : OMOO
56
Diving bird : LOON
57
Preposition : UNTO
58
Legal hold : LIEN
59
Basic nature : ESSE
61
Craving : YEN

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 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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