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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Thursday, October 21, 1993

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Mel Taub
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 7.0
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 16,053
Across
1
Actress Berry : HALLE
6
Woolly one : LAMB
10
Collapse : FALL
14
A Kennedy : ETHEL
15
Matty or Felipe : ALOU
16
Indian tongue : ERIE
17
Eskimo sled dog : ALASKANMALAMUTE
20
Lawyer's thing : RES
21
Affectionate gestures : HUGS
22
Flexible : LIMBER
23
In concert : ASONE
25
Lackluster : DREARY
26
Insignificant one : PEANUT
28
Subterfuge : PLOY
30
Resort near Leadville : ASPEN
31
Stop up : CLOG
32
Brother of Hoss and Little Joe : ADAM
36
Damascus strongman : ASSAD
37
Young one : LAD
38
Alarming sound : BLARE
39
Bamboozle : ROOK
40
___ bath (tub) : SITZ
41
Writer Glasgow : ELLEN
42
Lodge gp. : BPOE
43
Coached : PRIMED
44
Ad astra per ___ : ASPERA
48
Divine food : MANNA
49
Wolf of London : LARSEN
50
O'Hara's abode : TARA
51
U.S. power org. : TVA
54
Short-legged, wire-haired breed : SCOTTISHTERRIER
57
Teen trauma : ACNE
58
Grandiose : EPIC
59
Ladd or Sawyer : DIANE
60
War of yore : BOER
61
Black or eye follower : LASH
62
A man for one season : SANTA
Down
1
Learn of : HEAR
2
Tamarisk : ATLE
3
Small Tibetan breed : LHASAAPSO
4
Defense Secretary Aspin : LES
5
Norwegian ___ (hunting dog) : ELKHOUND
6
Actress Hope ___ : LANGE
7
Fakir's income : ALMS
8
Kiwi's extinct kin : MOA
9
Eli's pet? : BULLDOG
10
She can be fatale : FEMME
11
Oranjestad's locale : ARUBA
12
Quart's metric cousin : LITER
13
On one's guard : LEERY
18
Em, to Dorothy : AUNT
19
Vivacious : AIRY
24
Kind of preview : SNEAK
26
Carson's predecessor : PAAR
27
Italian it : ESSO
28
Coat with gold, e.g. : PLATE
29
City WSW of Warsaw : LODZ
31
Herodotus's Muse : CLIO
32
Pooped : ALLIN
33
Coach dog : DALMATIAN
34
Sting ending : AREE
35
Patch up : MEND
38
St. ___ (show or snow dogs) : BERNARDS
40
Droopy-eared dog. : SPANIEL
42
Saberhagen : BRET
43
Reduce : PARE
44
Preakness winner: 1942 : ALSAB
45
Famed anarchist : SACCO
46
Disposed : PRONE
47
Fragrant compound : ESTER
48
Correspond : MATCH
50
It often goes with that : THIS
52
Express freely : VENT
53
Vicinity : AREA
55
Hot tub : SPA
56
Creek : RIA

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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