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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Tuesday, April 2, 1974

61-Down : Great Barrier Island

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
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. 8,998
Across
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Gem feature : FACET
6
Goes for : OPTS
10
Solar disk : ATEN
14
Town on the Tigris : AMARA
15
Beery : NOAH
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Last words : TATA
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Oscar picture, '43 : CASABLANCA
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Guide's forte : TOUR
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Oscar picture, '65 : THESOUNDOFMUSIC
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Age : EON
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Sault ___ Marie : STE
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Currents: Abbr. : DCS
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Time period : ERA
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Large studio lamp : SUNARC
35
High notes : ELAS
37
Eleonora ___ : DUSE
39
Caravansary : SERAI
40
Oscar picture, '39 : GONEWITHTHEWIND
43
___ of roses : ATTAR
44
Bristle : SETA
45
Wise one : SAGE
46
Greeting in Israel : SHALOM
48
Pince-___ : NEZ
49
Sunday talk: Abbr. : SER
50
Kind of banana : TOP
52
Super-fine : AOK
55
Oscar picture, '54 : ONTHEWATERFRONT
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Divine revelation : TORA
65
Oscar picture, '31-32 : GRANDHOTEL
66
Awl or hatchet : TOOL
67
___ of beef : LOIN
68
Poet's "at hand" : ANEAR
69
Preposition : ONTO
70
Troubles : ILLS
71
Irish poet : YEATS
Down
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Fiction's counterpart : FACT
2
Oriental nurse : AMAH
3
Study in a way : CASE
4
Wipe out : ERASE
5
Verboten : TABOO
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Judah's son : ONAN
7
Watering spot : POND
8
Southwestern sandwiches : TACOS
9
Column parts : SHAFTS
10
Adak's neighbor : ATTU
11
Art colony of West : TAOS
12
Needle holder : ETUI
13
Stupor: Prefix : NARC
18
Monday, in Roma : LUNEDI
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River to North Sea : MEUSE
24
French painter : DEGAS
25
Voile or tulle : CLOTH
26
North Pole inhabitant : SANTA
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Road hazards : RUTS
29
Ghostly : ASHEN
31
Paper ingredient : NEWS
32
Tunes : ARIAS
33
Scope : RANGE
34
Drink : CIDER
36
___ of approval : SEAL
38
Feminine ending : ETTE
41
Communicated with : WROTE
42
Golf-course feature : HAZARD
47
Kipling man-child : MOWGLI
51
Word of mouth : PAROL
53
Bale ___ : OFHAY
54
Norway currency : KRONE
55
Kruger : OTTO
56
Time of day : NOON
57
Bustle : TROT
58
Nimbus : HALO
59
Shadow : TAIL
60
Austrian river : ENNS
61
Great Barrier Island : OTEA
62
Tidy : NEAT
63
Clothiers: Abbr. : TLRS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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