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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

New York Times, Saturday, September 20, 1980

13-Across : Rash or insolent

Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F J Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,274
Across
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Norm : PAR
4
Part of an oriel : PANE
8
Cry of a flushed snipe : SCAPE
13
Rash or insolent : AUDACIOUS
15
Pole used in Scottish games : CABER
16
Old, unpleasant woman : GRIMALKIN
17
Relative of Franco : ITALO
18
Emulate Pele or Orr : RETIRE
19
These never shake love, says Shakespeare : TEMPESTS
21
Cuprum-stannum alloy : AES
22
Wire job : TAP
24
Evening, in Evian : SOIR
25
Kind of palm or pepper : BETEL
27
Uses a divining rod : DOWSES
31
Speed up : ACCELERATE
35
Swiss river : AARE
36
Royce's fellow traveler : ROLLS
37
Namibia, formerly: Abbr. : SWA
38
Purify : PURGE
39
Russian river : URAL
40
"The ___," Hellinger opus: 1934 : TENMILLION
42
Conceal or blush : MANTLE
44
Certain trucks : SEMIS
45
Dutch portrait painter : HALS
47
Thus : SIC
48
Jungfrau is one : ALP
51
Connect, as with links : CATENATE
55
Drum signal : TATTOO
57
Source of hemp fiber : ABACA
58
Frameworks in clay modeling : ARMATURES
60
King of Naples: 1808-15 : MURAT
61
Playfully coy : KITTENISH
62
Gujarat, in India, is one : STATE
63
Palindromic Latin infinitive : ESSE
64
This might give you a laugh : GAS
Down
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Thick soup : PUREE
2
Stulms : ADITS
3
Branches : RAMI
4
Crested, as a woodpecker : PILEATE
5
Perfect, to Armstrong : AOK
6
This follows 24 Across : NUIT
7
Anglo-Saxon underdogs : ESNES
8
General who defeated Hannibal : SCIPIO
9
Screeches : CATERWAULS
10
He mocked Demeter and became a lizard : ABAS
11
Skin : PELT
12
Cupid, to Clytemnestra : EROS
13
Site of the Taj Mahal : AGRA
14
Mergers : CARTELS
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Manner : MODE
23
Intrinsically : PERSE
25
Dare : BELLTHECAT
26
Sheer cotton fabrics : LAWNS
28
What Indira says to her dresser : SARI
29
Cogito follower : ERGO
30
Viewed : SEEN
31
Calla lily, e.g. : ARUM
32
Beloved of Uncas : CORA
33
Roderick Dhu's group : CLAN
34
Makes the wild mild : TAMES
38
Folded or pleated : PLICATE
40
Honduran port : TELA
41
Ape or parrot : IMITATE
43
Woolly : LANATE
46
Pale : STAKE
48
Open courts : ATRIA
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Type of soil : LOESS
50
Luxurious : POSH
51
Machine parts : CAMS
52
Adjoin : ABUT
53
Place named for a mythical Irish queen : TARA
54
Strike was her shtick : ERIS
56
___ oil, used in varnish : TUNG
59
Map abbrs. : MTS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 7 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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