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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

New York Times, Tuesday, April 4, 1978

12-Across : Ports

Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 24.0 Grid has double diagonal symmetry. Grid has duplicate clues.
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,461
Across
1
Fad : CRAZE
6
Examines minutely : SCANS
11
Destined to a sad fate : DOOMED
12
Ports : HAVENS
14
Port : REDWINE
15
Copies published simultaneously : EDITION
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Famous Pilgrim : ALDEN
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Essentials : NEEDS
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Work at : PLY
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Convent room : CELL
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Tall or short item : STORY
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Dulles biographer : BEAL
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French season : ETE
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Sounds of anguish : MOANS
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Polo : MARCO
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Esteems : RESPECTS
29
Reduce : LESSEN
30
George or Victoria : LAKE
31
Piedmont town, southeast of Milan : LODI
32
Dupes : CHEATS
35
Seasoned liquid used in cooking : MARINADE
39
Talks wildly : RANTS
40
Pertaining to atmospheric weight : BARIC
41
These, in Tours : CES
42
Five geological periods : ERAS
43
Buds of onions, lilies, etc. : BULBS
44
Port : LEFT
45
Recede : EBB
46
Hearty enjoyment : GUSTO
47
___ Antoinette : MARIE
48
Tracts reclaimed by dams or dikes : POLDERS
50
Fauna : ANIMALS
52
Change, as a title : RENAME
53
Interact realistically : RELATE
54
Teasdale et al. : SARAS
55
Manufacturer of the first steel plow : DEERE
Down
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Pampers : CODDLES
2
Spur part : ROWEL
3
Idi : AMIN
4
Mahayana movement : ZEN
5
Toothless : EDENTATE
6
Moves obliquely, with "off" : SHEERS
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Small can for tea : CADDY
8
Rara ___ : AVIS
9
Kind of profit : NET
10
Those who shoot from ambush : SNIPERS
11
Cancel out : DELETE
13
Comfort : SOLACE
14
Athlete in a crash helmet : RACER
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Synthetic material : NYLON
19
Many millenniums : EONS
22
Argyles : SOCKS
23
Washbowl : BASIN
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Supermarket section : MEATS
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"M*A*S*H" man : MEDIC
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Maps : PLATS
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Nocturnal lemur : LORIS
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Port : LARBOARD
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Inch along : CREEP
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Port : HARBOR
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Makes possible : ENABLES
35
Germinated grain : MALT
36
Needle-shaped : ACERATE
37
Taint : DEFILE
38
___ Park, Colo. : ESTES
40
Kisses : BUSSES
43
Asian country : BURMA
44
Missouri town, birthplace of H.S.T. : LAMAR
46
Machine part : GEAR
47
"And he walked a crooked ___" : MILE
49
Class of nucleic acids : DNA
51
Born : NEE

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