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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Thursday, February 19, 1981

57-Down : Brief autobiography

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,426
Across
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Escape gradually : LEAK
5
Fireplace fallout : ASHES
10
Bad cut : GASH
14
Identical : SAME
15
Horse house : STALL
16
Noted writer-diplomat : LUCE
17
Ivan the Terrible, e.g. : TSAR
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___ di Caracalla (Rome monument) : TERME
19
School Shelley attended : ETON
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Line for Lamont Cranston : THESHADOWKNOWS
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Want : NEED
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In the dumps : SAD
25
Lower : ABASE
28
Ideology : ISM
31
Person equipped for clamming : RAKER
35
Kitchen feature : SINK
36
Whole : ENTIRE
38
Emulated Horner : ATE
39
Place to which host Raymond admitted listeners : THEINNERSANCTUM
42
Threw a hat in the ring : RAN
43
Valuables : ASSETS
44
Military assistant : AIDE
45
Menu selection : ORDER
47
Mineral spring : SPA
48
Marksman's sport : SKEET
49
Ballot marks : XES
51
Dough, bread or moola : KALE
53
Line for the Lone Ranger : HIHOSILVERAWAY
60
Use a blue pencil : EDIT
61
Indistinct : FAINT
62
Kin of alack : ALAS
64
French roast : ROTI
65
Decision on Publishers Row : TITLE
66
Knowledge : LORE
67
Guinness : ALEC
68
Doesn't go : STAYS
69
Artist Rockwell : KENT
Down
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Omaha Beach craft : LST
2
"___ of Suez," Maugham play : EAST
3
Oriental nurse : AMAH
4
Prime minister of Russia: 1917 : KERENSKI
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"___ World Turns," TV soap opera : ASTHE
6
Funambulist's forte : STEADINESS
7
Like a diamond : HARD
8
Sailor's saint : ELMO
9
Pivots : SLEWS
10
Actress Jackson : GLENDA
11
Edsel was one : AUTO
12
Kind of barge : SCOW
13
Pecking-order participants : HENS
21
Cathedral : SEE
22
Actress Black : KAREN
25
Prefix for dome or turf : ASTRO
26
Where Patna is : BIHAR
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"Let there be ___": Browning : ANEND
29
Adjective for a sore throat : STREP
30
By accident : MISTAKENLY
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Cole Porter's "___ Went to Haiti" : KATIE
33
Musical piece : ETUDE
34
Fought again : REMET
36
U.S.N.A. grad : ENS
37
Headland : RAS
40
Breather's need : NARES
41
Stage dance : CAKEWALK
46
Strange or showy : EXOTIC
48
U.S. historian ___ Marshall : SLA
50
Examines carefully : SIFTS
52
"___, Scientia, Veritas" : ARTES
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Goddess watching over Xanthippe : HERA
54
Matinee follower : IDOL
55
"The ___ Report": 1976 : HITE
56
Café au ___ : LAIT
57
Brief autobiography : VITA
58
Perennial plant : ALOE
59
Tale : YARN
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Tennis unit : SET

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 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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