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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Friday, March 22, 1985

41-Down : Inn

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { F J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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C
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L
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N
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C
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K
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,918
Across
1
Bombay bigwig : RANA
5
Mud follower : BATH
9
Something to flick : ASH
12
Ignore : OMIT
13
Imogen's Fidele in "Cymbeline" : ALIAS
15
She, in Sonora : ELLA
16
___ War (famed race horse) : MANO
17
"Lost Horizon" director : CAPRA
18
Pherkad is one : STAR
19
Optical toy : PHENAKISTOSCOPE
22
Stanford White extension : ELL
23
Distaff busybody : YENTA
24
O'Hara's Joey : PAL
27
Break bread : EAT
29
Leaked almost imperceptibly : SEEPED
32
Step ___ (hurry) : ONIT
34
Red or Dead : SEA
36
Spanish satirist: 1809-37 : LARRA
38
24-sided figure : TETRAHEXAHEDRON
42
Thermoplastic : SARAN
43
W.W. II zone : ETO
44
Poetic times : EENS
45
Disclose : REVEAL
48
Cato's "It is" : EST
50
Actor Billy ___ Williams : DEE
51
Quartet from Mississippi : ESSES
53
Spy job : TAP
55
Like serpentine writing : BOUSTROPHEDONIC
62
Transported emotionally : RAPT
63
" ... a kiss through ___": Hugo : AVEIL
64
Jean or Walter : KERR
65
"Ship" follower : AHOY
66
Stripper, possibly : MINER
67
Part of HOMES : ERIE
68
Thriller prop : GUN
69
___-bitsy : ITSY
70
Start of a Stein line : ROSE
Down
1
Gambol : ROMP
2
Oriental nurse : AMAH
3
Judicial number : NINE
4
Make amends : ATONE
5
Recoil : BACKLASH
6
"Merry" in a game name : ALAI
7
Under the "alfluence of incohol" : TIPSY
8
Writer Bret et al. : HARTES
9
Lowest female voice : ALTO
10
Word before stick or happy : SLAP
11
Loser to a tortoise : HARE
14
Rhone feeder : SAONE
15
Shenanigan : ESCAPADE
20
Hopped-up drink : ALE
21
Stone tablet : STELE
24
Crocks : POTS
25
Lend ___ (listen) : ANEAR
26
Kin of a metre : LITRE
28
Duffer's device : TEE
30
Bobbled : ERRED
31
Worker : DRONE
33
Mockery; caricature : TRAVESTY
35
Borden weapon : AXE
37
Faulkner hero : ANSE
39
"___ of robins ... " : ANEST
40
A daughter of Zeus : ATE
41
Inn : HOSTELRY
46
Religious retreat : ASRAM
47
One of 13 at the Vatican : LEOVII
49
Boy or bit : TAD
52
All tuckered out : SPENT
54
Stud or draw : POKER
55
Blow one's own horn : BRAG
56
Punchbowl site : OAHU
57
Bedtime-story word : UPON
58
Shakes a leg : HIES
59
"Quo Vadis?" character : NERO
60
Rainbow flower : IRIS
61
Algonquian language : CREE

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 2 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.

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