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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Wednesday, August 14, 1974

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.34, Missing: { B F J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 2, XRef: 3, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11, Grid flow: 51.0 Grid has duplicate clues.
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,132
Across
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Meet head on : OPPOSE
7
Slip by : ELAPSE
13
Flowing, as handwriting : CURSIVE
15
___ as a cucumber : ASCOOL
16
Ridged : STRIATED
17
Associate of Addison : STEELE
18
Wheel : HELM
19
Disappears : GOES
21
Conway of TV : TIM
22
Siouan : OTOE
23
Insults : SLAPS
25
Kind of skirt : MIDI
26
Greek letter : PSI
27
Isolated : APART
28
Walks : PACES
29
Noun forms : NOMINA
31
Tiny traces : WISPS
32
Subject for 14 Down : TELLTALEHEART
34
Albert : EDDIE
35
Eighth-century Pope : LEOIII
36
Writer Zona et al. : GALES
37
Wrapping material : SARAN
38
Sgt. or cpl. : NCO
41
Music drama, in Bonn : OPER
42
Tim and Alice : TINYS
43
Read quickly : SCAN
44
Firm : PAT
45
Stole : WRAP
46
Hue : TINT
47
Main road : ARTERY
49
Confide in completely : OPENUPTO
53
Stone markers : STELES
54
Be superior: Lat. : EXCELLO
55
Slave-driver : TYRANT
56
Pilfered : STOLEN
Down
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Singing groups : OCTETS
2
Subject for 14 Down : PURLOINEDLETTER
3
Do a pump job : PRIME
4
Explorer Johnson : OSA
5
Convene : SIT
6
Christmas time : EVE
7
Ameliorates : EASES
8
W. W. II craft : LSTS
9
Expert : ACE
10
Critical essay by 14 Down : POETICPRINCIPLE
11
Most compact : SOLIDEST
12
Varnish ingredients : ELEMIS
14
U. S. author : EDGARALLANPOE
16
Emporium : SHOP
20
Elect : OPT
23
Grudge : SPITE
24
Turner : LANA
25
Hunting tribe of Africa : MASAI
27
Trees of India : AMLIS
28
___ the sky (wishfulness) : PIEIN
30
Riper : OLDER
31
Stops, to dobbin : WHOAS
32
Event for Alice : TEAPARTY
33
Strange : EERY
36
Overshoot : GOPAST
37
Indian of New Mexico : SIA
39
Football Hall of Fame site : CANTON
40
Aware : ONTO
42
Secret meeting : TRYST
43
Mine support : STULL
45
Bird : WREN
48
High note : ELA
50
Service stores : PXS
51
Outer: Prefix : ECT
52
Recent: Prefix : NEO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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