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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Saturday, September 12, 1992

46-Down : Successful shamus

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 27, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 100, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, 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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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,649
Across
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Leguminous : PODDED
7
Make the h-sound : ASPIRATE
15
Small cavity : AREOLE
16
Perfume fixatives : SKATOLES
17
Hit song: 1930 : LITTLEWHITELIES
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___ trip : EGO
20
A Met score : ARIA
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"___ Again ... ": 1972 hit song : ALONE
22
Discovery : FIND
24
Salinger heroine et al. : ESMES
27
Garbo's supposed rival : STEN
28
"For want of ___ ... " : ANAIL
30
Black tea : PEKOE
32
Vein glory : ORE
33
He wrote "A Stillness at Appomattox" : CATTON
35
Bruce and Laura of films : DERNS
37
He got the votes yesterday! : ELECTEE
39
Politico, at times : DEBATER
43
Poet Doolittle : HILDA
45
Strauss opera : SALOME
46
Warpage sign : SAG
49
" ... that sweet golden ___": Blake : CLIME
51
French historian: 1842-1906 : SOREL
52
Estofado pot : OLLA
54
Checks : STEMS
56
Marquette was one : PERE
57
Guanaco's next of kin : LLAMA
59
Rough waters : RIPS
61
Muslim title : AGA
62
Probabilities : VERISIMILITUDES
66
Atomic particle : ELECTRON
67
Power once in films : TYRONE
68
Did an usher's job : RESEATED
69
Employs muscle power : EXERTS
Down
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"The ___," 1948 Hope film : PALEFACE
2
Prototype : ORIGINAL
3
Explode : DETONATE
4
Benday item : DOT
5
Eugene O'Neill's mother : ELLA
6
Steel-plow pioneer : DEERE
7
Mortified : ASHAMED
8
Copy Killy : SKI
9
Opportune : PAT
10
Williamsburg willow : ITEA
11
Shoots the dice : ROLLS
12
Former San Francisco mayor : ALIOTO
13
Youthful one : TEENER
14
Ancient Jewish monastic : ESSENE
18
Smoke curl : WISP
23
Discard : DITCH
25
___ out (made do) : EKED
26
Lesions : SORES
29
Living in rapid currents: Ecol. : LOTIC
31
Below, in Boulogne : ENBAS
34
Dickens's Trent et al. : NELLS
36
Shropshire's other name : SALOP
38
Emulate Charles Merz : EDIT
40
Opera's Escamillo, for one : TOREADOR
41
On the rise : EMERGENT
42
Issuances by P.R. people : RELEASES
44
Cree or Ute : AMERIND
46
Successful shamus : SOLVER
47
Genetic form : ALLELE
48
If-looks-could-kill looks : GLARES
50
Jannings of films : EMIL
53
Priest's nape covering : AMICE
55
Petty ill will : SPITE
58
Hammett pooch : ASTA
60
River to Hades : STYX
63
N.Y.C. transit : IRT
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Doug ___, 76ers' coach : MOE
65
Suffix for press : URE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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