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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Saturday, December 5, 1992

42-Down : Rode for a ranch owner in a roundup

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 30, Avg Word Len: 5.57, Missing: { J Q W Y Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,733
Across
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Bugbear : SCARER
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Tale with a moral : PARABLE
14
An abstract sculpture : STABILE
15
Madison and Grant : AVENUES
16
Bony fish : TELEOST
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Piebalds : CALICOS
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Indeed, in Ireland : ARU
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Maritime tree : SEAPINE
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"___ for My Baby," 1943 song : ONE
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Flaccid : LIMP
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Jangada : RAFT
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Yeasty pancake : BLIN
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Sharp as a tack : ALERT
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Half of MCII : DLI
29
Where Mt. Desert Island is : MAINE
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Evacuate : GETOUT
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Acts of reparation : PENANCES
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Madison or Grant : PRESIDENT
36
Tilden, to Hayes : OPPONENT
39
One who bantingizes : DIETER
43
Overbearing quality : BRASS
44
"Ulalume" poet's monogram : EAP
46
___ de Chine : CREPE
47
Item in "Sunflowers" : VASE
48
Film role for Greta : MATA
49
Type of cookie : SNAP
50
Bond payout, briefly : INT
51
Begins liking : TAKESTO
54
Eat slowly : SUP
55
Paint solvent : ACETONE
57
Of the sense of touch : TACTILE
59
Dandie Dinmont, e.g. : TERRIER
60
Blew smoke rings : EXHALED
61
Bloch and Hollings : ERNESTS
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Youngster in a pride : LIONET
Down
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"The ___ Cuckoo," Pakula film : STERILE
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Indian pipe or dance : CALUMET
3
Kobo ___, Japanese novelist-playwright : ABE
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See 53 Down : RIOS
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Over and above : ELSE
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Delay : RETARD
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Assuaged : PACIFIED
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___-dernier (penultimate) : AVANT
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Electrical relay: Sp. : RELE
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Black bird : ANI
11
Pastoral : BUCOLIC
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Type of verse : LEONINE
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Early monastics : ESSENES
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Col. Klink's domain : STALAG
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Throb : PALPITATE
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Nominate; make a motion : PROPOSE
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Exchanges teasing remarks : BANTERS
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Goes sour : TURNS
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Frenzied : MANIC
31
"Elevator" for Norman : TEE
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Browning's "___ Bratts" : NED
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Court wear : SNEAKERS
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Prevent : OBVIATE
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Santa helper : PRANCER
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Part of a horse's foot : PASTERN
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___ strength (cohesiveness) : TENSILE
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Uniform's shoulder piece : EPAULET
42
Rode for a ranch owner in a roundup : REPPED
45
Pale pink, e.g. : PASTEL
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He painted Zola: 1868 : MANET
51
French pronouns : TOIS
52
Hirsch-DeVito sitcom : TAXI
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With 4 Down, Jamaican city : OCHO
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Foil lead-in : TRE
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Amy of best-sellerdom : TAN

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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