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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Saturday, January 20, 1979

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 27.3
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,665
Across
1
Soil : EARTH
6
This starts a football play : SNAP
10
Imitate Elmer Fudd : LISP
14
Where oboli were spent : AGORA
15
Prefix with type or cast : TELE
16
Peruvian : INCA
17
A time to cheer and a time to weep : SUPERBOWLSUNDAY
20
Essence of good football : TEAMPLAY
21
Roi's spouse : REINE
22
Stadium sound : BOO
23
Become an expatriate : EMIGRATE
26
Former Harvard football coach : HARLOW
29
Party workers : AIDES
30
Unfamiliar : ALIEN
31
Nettled : IRKED
32
Served up : FED
35
Member of the mob : HOOD
36
Hebrew prophet : HOSEA
37
Army eleven's mascot : MULE
38
Condominium: Abbr. : APT
39
Punters' aids or hindrances : WINDS
40
Whammy : CURSE
41
Girl for Igor : SONIA
42
Sadat's predecessor : NASSER
43
Usual time for varsity football : SATURDAY
46
Curvature : ARC
47
Seed cases : ARILS
48
Cheerleaders' exhortation : GOTEAMGO
53
Shrine Bowl players : COLLEGEALLSTARS
56
Tease : RIDE
57
Roper : ELMO
58
French law body : SENAT
59
South Yemen's capital : ADEN
60
Stadium section : TIER
61
Smyrna fig : ELEME
Down
1
Football team (see 53 Across) : EAST
2
Malarial illness : AGUE
3
Clothes, to José : ROPA
4
Shook : TREMBLED
5
Weapon for Ahab : HARPOON
6
Colonnade : STOA
7
College football culmination : NEWYEARSDAYGAME
8
___-American : ALL
9
Foot part : PES
10
Sea vessels : LINERS
11
Setting for a Forster novel : INDIA
12
Slight : SCANT
13
Person named on a check : PAYEE
18
Use a whistle : BLOW
19
Prompted : URGED
24
Equipment for announcers : MIKES
25
Notion : IDEA
26
Derisive sound : HAHA
27
Cockeyed : ALOP
28
Insurrection : RIOT
31
Part of ancient Greece : IONIA
32
Baum martens : FURS
33
Or follower : ELSE
34
Animal resembling a chevrotain : DEER
36
Hart's mate : HIND
37
Dessert wine : MUSCATEL
39
"No ___ for the wear" : WORSE
40
Endearment: Fr. : CARESSE
41
Saturnine : SULLEN
42
Part of N.F.L. : NATL
43
Spinal-column sections : SACRA
44
Jack-in-the-pulpit, e.g. : AROID
45
Mark used in logic : TILDE
49
Swan genus : OLOR
50
Long hair : MANE
51
Metric weight : GRAM
52
Bone: Comb. form : OSTE
54
Grasp : GET
55
Larry Kelly was one : ELI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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