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Margaret Rigby
Margaret Rigby

Expertise

New York Times, Sunday, November 8, 1981

75-Down : Author Ludwig

Author:
Margaret Rigby
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 79, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 543 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 108, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12, Grid flow: 46.1
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,688
Across
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Kind of mask or main : GAS
4
___ Moines : DES
7
Humiliated : ABASED
13
Stale : VAPID
18
Luxuriant : OPULENT
20
Self-important : POMPOUS
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Suffix for a science : OLOGY
23
Open porch : VERANDA
24
Pale color, to an oologist? : ROBINSEGGBLUE
26
Cousin of a via : ITER
27
Hamartiologist's topic : SIN
28
Strained : TAUT
29
Anthropologist's interest : LAR
30
Hedonist, to a lepidopterist? : SOCIALBUTTERFLY
35
Female swans : PENS
36
Box for eggs or milk: Abbr. : CTN
37
Contends : VIES
38
Gazes : STARES
39
Actress Merkel : UNA
40
Lowest level, to a lithologist? : ROCKBOTTOM
44
Composer Rorem : NED
45
Word on a wine label : SEC
46
Key for Grieg : AMINOR
47
Merit ___ : BADGE
50
Laryngologist's interest : THROAT
53
Escorial's country : SPAIN
54
Place of rustic contentment : ARCADIA
57
Having a slightly notched, rounded apex : RETUSE
58
"American Dreams" author : TERKEL
60
Kind of scene or cap : MOB
61
Dorothy and Molly : MALONES
62
Cave salamander : OLM
65
Boys in Barcelona : CHICOS
67
Sell to the consumer : RETAIL
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Make lace : TAT
70
Deal with in passing : TOUCHON
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Letters on a TV dial : UHF
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Waiting room : LOUNGE
76
What fools do : RUSHIN
77
Made a two-base hit : DOUBLED
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Protozoan : AMEBA
83
Finch or lark, e.g. : OSCINE
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January, to señor : ENERO
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Guinness role on TV : SMILEY
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Meadow : LEA
87
Pierre's friend : AMI
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Oenologist's stock : WINECELLAR
92
Pershing's men in W.W. I : AEF
93
"___ the origin of his action": Aristotle : AMANIS
96
Father of Enos : SETH
97
Incense : IRE
98
Focal points : HUBS
99
Disappeared, to an anemologist? : GONEWITHTHEWIND
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Acapulco gold : ORO
104
Fictional plantation : TARA
105
Seraglio room : ODA
106
Thought: Prefix : IDEO
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Provocative, to a stomatologist : MOUTHWATERING
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Ethnologist's concern : CULTURE
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Ford or Pyle : ERNIE
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Noted 19th-century Peruvian historian : LORENTE
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Potassium, sodium, etc. : ALKALIS
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Gaseous element : RADON
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White House name : REAGAN
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Brown or Paul : LES
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Witty remark : MOT
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Carey of N.Y., for one : GOV
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Mimic : APE
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Big ___, Calif. : SUR
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Tooth: Prefix : DENTI
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Strive : ENDEAVOR
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Like a bright night : STARLIT
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Calendar abbr. : APR
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Lift : BOOST
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Circuits : AMBITS
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Piano type : SPINET
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Long period of time : EON
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Clean, as a shelf : DUSTFREE
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Noted German zoologist: 1817–95 : VOGT
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Priest's robe : ALB
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Result of a numerologist's field trip? : POLLENCOUNT
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Lizard : IGUANA
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Colorers : DYERS
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Secular : LAIC
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Made hermetic : SEALED
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Dolls' partners : GUYS
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Jazz dance : STOMP
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Maltese coin : ONCIA
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Atlantic City action : BET
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Servicemen's org. : USO
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Seemed familiar, to a campanologist? : RANGABELL
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___ Rico : PUERTO
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Tomorrow, to Tacitus : CRAS
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Purl's partner : KNIT
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Osteologist's dinnerware? : BONECHINA
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Grad. degree : MBA
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Conchologist's swindle? : SHELLGAME
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Navy V.I.P. : ADM
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Fashion name : DIOR
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Retinue : TRAIN
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Traveling on the QE2 : ASEA
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Course finale : TEST
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Cognate : AKIN
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Kind of room, for short : REC
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Nephologist's bliss? : CLOUDNINE
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Avignon's river : RHONE
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Tennyson poem : MAUD
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Another, in Córdoba : OTRO
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Brock and Piniella : LOUS
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Inflexible, to a myologist? : MUSCLEBOUND
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Third-rail contact : SHOE
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Word with hold or nail : TOE
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Kansas City 11 : CHIEFS
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Kolinsky, e.g. : FUR
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Author Ludwig : EMIL
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Sherwood Forest weapon : BOW
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Mrs. Irving Berlin : ELLIN
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Awn : BEARD
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Isle of Man's northern point : AYRE
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One that issues forth : EMANATOR
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Timetable : SCHEDULE
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Indifferent to right or wrong : AMORAL
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Ending for self or sheep : ISH
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Catch by strategem : NET
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Moral : ETHICAL
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Dawn goddess : AURORA
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Ethiopian group : AGAW
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" ... ___ big red rose" : IWOREA
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Short track : SIDING
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"Maine Coast" painter : HOMER
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City in Egypt : TANTA
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Lawrence and kin : WELKS
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Tittle : IOTA
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Now's partner : THEN
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Uncle, to Pedro : TIO
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Before, to an elegist : ERE
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Brig. or lt. follower : GEN
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Einstein's birthplace : ULM
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Grande, for example : RIO
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Superlative ending : EST

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

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