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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Thursday, August 16, 1984

34-Down : Farmer, at times

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid is asymmetric.
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,700
Across
1
Teller's "home" : CAGE
5
L.I. town : ISLIP
10
Dolt : CLOD
14
Siouan : OTOE
15
Fruit for jelly : GUAVA
16
Dorm : HIVE
17
Certain pickpocket : MOLLBUZZER
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Often the last word : AMEN
20
Goal : END
21
Tayback's TV Mom : RAYE
22
Billable one : CLIENT
24
Chinook, to Boone : REDMAN
26
Vaticinator : SEER
27
Barest amount : IOTA
28
Illicit : UNLAWFUL
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Alert watchman : ARGUS
34
W.W. I admiral : SPEE
35
"Comus" composer : ARNE
36
Leo, e.g. : SIGN
37
___ out (solved) : DOPED
38
Lacoste of tennis fame : RENE
39
"___ a Kick Out of You" : IGET
40
Jug : EWER
41
Insult : SMEAR
42
Timber specialist : FORESTER
44
Swashbuckler's event : DUEL
45
Kodiak : BEAR
46
Out of the country : ABROAD
49
Aerial photo composite : MOSAIC
52
Grand work : OPUS
54
Ottoman V.I.P. : AGA
55
Shortly : ANON
56
Confidence man : HIGHBINDER
59
Hotel-lobby area : DESK
60
Rival for Agatha : ERLE
61
Trace : SCENT
62
Early matchmaker : EROS
63
Attracted : DREW
64
Pentateuch : TORAH
Down
1
Future star : COMER
2
In harmony : ATONE
3
Mercenary one : GOLDDIGGER
4
Slither : EEL
5
Reptile in a T. Williams title : IGUANA
6
Famed model ___ Parker : SUZY
7
Play the lounge lizard : LAZE
8
"___ Gotta Crow" : IVE
9
Lotted for development : PARCELED
10
Office loafer : CHAIRWARMER
11
Fruit for an ade : LIME
12
Calcar : OVEN
13
Slight depression : DENT
18
Unruly ones : BRATS
23
Grazer's milieu : LEA
25
Frauds : MOUNTEBANKS
26
Grimace with derision : SNEER
28
Word with case or berth : UPPER
29
Sponge of a sort : FREELOADER
30
W. German city : UNNA
31
Imitate Groucho : LEER
32
Conditional phrase : ASIF
33
I moisten: Lat. : RIGO
34
Farmer, at times : SOWER
37
Aloof : DETACHED
41
Remain alive : SUBSIST
43
Rorqual : SEI
44
Apply ointment : DAUB
47
Rocketry word : AGENA
48
Vader of "Star Wars" : DARTH
49
Concocted : MADE
50
Lulu : ONER
51
Fair : SOSO
52
Oeillade : OGLE
53
Word of relief : PHEW
57
Kind of verb: Abbr. : IRR
58
Fort Bragg res. : NCO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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