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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Thursday, September 17, 1992

9-Down : Hale or Detroit

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,654
Across
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Out of harm's way : SAFE
5
Fin fifth : BUCK
9
"___ lay me down ... " : NOWI
13
Jai chaser : ALAI
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Not this : OTHER
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So be it : AMEN
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Half a prison : SING
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Love, in Lucca : AMORE
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Adolescent : TEEN
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Potato words : HASHBROWNSCHIPS
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Hardy heroine : TESS
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Done ___ turn : TOA
25
Rate : MERIT
28
Keyboard key : TAB
31
Growls : GNARS
35
Awn : ARISTA
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Louis or Henri : ROI
39
A brother of Curly : MOE
40
Potato words : MASHEDLYONNAISE
44
Had a bite : ATE
45
Juno, e.g. : DEA
46
Garfield's treat : CATNIP
47
More irate : SORER
50
Reply to a ques. : ANS
52
Some Siouans : OTOES
53
"Neither a borrower ___ ... ": Shak. : NOR
55
Robin Cook title : COMA
57
Potato words : SPUDTATERMICKEY
65
Not taped : LIVE
66
Street show : RAREE
67
Possess : HAVE
68
Draft status : ONEA
69
Hashemite capital : AMMAN
70
Organic compound : ENOL
71
Attire : WEAR
72
Jacks of clubs : PAMS
73
Far from shallow : DEEP
Down
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Obi, e.g. : SASH
2
Saturn attachment : ALIA
3
Punkahs : FANS
4
Popular date time, more or less : EIGHTISH
5
These are often wild : BOARS
6
The tops : UTMOST
7
Mess fare : CHOW
8
Songsmith Jerome : KERN
9
Hale or Detroit : NATHAN
10
Chinese sacred mountain : OMEI
11
Act like a willow? : WEEP
12
Motels' ancestors : INNS
15
Caesura : REST
21
Midler or Davis : BETTE
22
Machine part : COG
25
Maternal appellations : MAMAS
26
Sappho's Muse : ERATO
27
Stair part : RISER
29
Indo-European : ARYAN
30
Call of the riled : BOO
32
Acid type : AMINO
33
W.W. II riveter : ROSIE
34
Oozes : SEEPS
36
Use a calculator : ADD
38
"Airways, ___ ": Dos Passos : INC
41
Greensward : LEA
42
One of the Judds : NAOMI
43
Tied on : ATTACHED
48
Ingratiate : ENDEAR
49
Go bad : ROT
51
Shriek : SCREAM
54
___ avis : RARA
56
Signs : OMENS
57
Off-ramp warning : SLOW
58
Pulpwood source : PINE
59
Eye part : UVEA
60
Pack down : TAMP
61
Author Bombeck : ERMA
62
Welles role : KANE
63
Bacchanalian cry : EVOE
64
Canine protest : YELP

Answer summary:
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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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