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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Friday, May 8, 1981

21-Across : Cut

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 301 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,504
Across
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Ululate : HOWL
5
Eve's trio in a 1957 film : FACES
10
Rough file : RASP
14
Out : AWAY
15
Likeness : IMAGE
16
Ending for confer or defer : ENCE
17
Permits : LETS
18
Ursa Major : LARGERBEAR
20
Lyric poem : ODE
21
Cut : SLIT
22
Montemezzi's "L'Amore ___ Re" : DEITRE
23
Where Joan of Arc perished : ROUEN
25
Tart : ACID
26
Grow embittered : FESTER
28
Pass on some bus lines : TRANSFER
32
Frog : RANID
33
Military V.I.P.'s : BRASS
34
Town in New Guinea : LAE
35
Historic periods : ERAS
36
Eisenhower in 1911 : PLEBE
37
On which Joan of Arc perished : PYRE
38
He wears a tooth : ELK
39
Corp. officer : TREAS
40
Worked at steadily : PLIED
41
This may have seeds : RYEBREAD
43
Kin of klipspringers : ELANDS
44
Lady who is often fickle : LUCK
45
Tossed : FLUNG
46
Elite : CHOICE
49
Rich earth : LOAM
50
Albee's "___ and Yam" : FAM
53
Capricorn : HORNEDGOAT
55
Agree : JIBE
56
Imitated : APED
57
Golfer's thrill : EAGLE
58
Tool company's customer : USER
59
Hardy heroine : TESS
60
Cure, as fur skins : DRESS
61
Quaker pronoun : THEE
Down
1
Nimbus : HALO
2
Was in debt : OWED
3
Hydrus : WATERSNAKE
4
Belgian-French river : LYS
5
Secondary item in a newspaper : FILLER
6
With full force : AMAIN
7
Haul : CART
8
Squirrel's theft : EGG
9
Pericarp : SEEDCASE
10
Makes a new proposition : REBIDS
11
"He hath spread ___ ... " : ANET
12
Trauma memento : SCAR
13
A Dumas : PERE
19
Controlling power : REINS
21
Apt rhyme for wooed : SUED
24
Erstwhile Cape Cod A.F.B. : OTIS
25
Middle Easterners : ARABS
26
Less confined : FREER
27
Betimes : EARLY
28
Stair part : TREAD
29
Piscis Volans : FLYINGFISH
30
Like some seals : EARED
31
Woodwinds : REEDS
33
Stark; barren; dreary : BLEAK
36
Came first : PRECEDED
37
George C. Marshall devised one : PLAN
39
Pause in hostilities : TRUCE
40
Windfall : PLUM
42
Shutters : BLINDS
43
Raises the spirits : ELATES
45
Gives birth, as a mare : FOALS
46
Light conversation : CHAT
47
Diamond name : HOPE
48
Bauxite and galena : ORES
49
Theater section : LOGE
51
Busy as ___ : ABEE
52
Adjective for a trifle : MERE
54
Destructive freshwater fish : GAR
55
Protrude : JUT

Answer summary:
3 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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