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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Wednesday, September 17, 1986

32-Down : Surfeited

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 4, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,462
Across
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Diplomat's forte : TACT
5
Cordage fiber : SISAL
10
Equipment : GEAR
14
Khayyám : OMAR
15
Me. town : ORONO
16
Like a fabled duckling : UGLY
17
Indian princess : RANI
18
Put on cargo : LADED
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A gait : LOPE
20
U.S. film debut of 39 Across : THEBLUEANGEL
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Break bread : EAT
24
___ advocate : DEVILS
27
Fleur-de-___ : LIS
30
Chanteuse Edith : PIAF
33
A "Stagecoach" star: 1939 : DEVINE
35
Before, to Byron : ERE
36
Straw in the wind : OMEN
38
Pay up : REMIT
39
Star of 20 Across : MARLENEDIETRICH
43
"It's ___!" : ADEAL
44
Invalid : NULL
45
Ring initials : TKO
46
Busybodies : YENTAS
48
Undress : PEEL
50
Draft agcy. : SSS
51
Stew : SEETHE
53
Limo occupant : VIP
55
Role for 39 Across : SHANGHAILILY
61
This may come to shove : PUSH
64
Attack : RUNAT
65
Mars, to 54 Down : ARES
66
Exchange rate : AGIO
67
Poetry Muse : ERATO
68
Bag opener : TOTE
69
Hot-day word : WHEW
70
Hinder : DETER
71
___ about (approximately) : ONOR
Down
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Legal wrong : TORT
2
Oriental nurse : AMAH
3
Walking aid : CANE
4
Levites, e.g. : TRIBE
5
Holmes's aim : SOLUTION
6
Dies ___ : IRAE
7
Kind of jerk or pop : SODA
8
Put ___ to (finish off) : ANEND
9
Stayed at an inn : LODGED
10
Traveler to Lilliput : GULLIVER
11
Type of trip : EGO
12
Swiss peak : ALP
13
Manhattan part : RYE
21
Track distance : LAP
22
Turn inside out : EVERT
25
Restrains : LIMITS
26
Shaving mishaps : SNICKS
27
Air Force general Curtis : LEMAY
28
Sultans' decrees : IRADES
29
Placid : SERENE
31
Sanction : AMEN
32
Surfeited : FEDUP
34
Group character : ETHOS
37
What the Aswan dams : NILE
40
Wee-hour movie : LATESHOW
41
Gulf of Aqaba port : ELATH
42
Londoner's lift : ELEVATOR
47
Split the take : SHARED
49
Number of cards in Caesar's deck? : LII
52
Harden : ENURE
54
"The Republic" author : PLATO
56
Flying pest : GNAT
57
Love's antithesis : HATE
58
Item to pump : IRON
59
Apollo's mother : LETO
60
North Sea feeder : YSER
61
Clumsy hand : PAW
62
Expression of disgust : UGH
63
"Sprechen ___ Deutsch?" : SIE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 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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