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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

New York Times, Wednesday, September 24, 1980

5-Down : Supermarket employee

Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 44.4
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,278
Across
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Garret : ATTIC
6
Part of a window blind : SLAT
10
Narrow opening : SLIT
14
Goddess of the hunt : DIANA
15
Surface undulation : WAVE
16
Milne's "When We ___ Very Young" : WERE
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Official receiving a 19-gun salute : AMBASSADOR
19
In the distance : AFAR
20
French possessive pronoun : MES
21
Holographic : HANDWRITTEN
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Ventilates : AIRS
24
Part of the foot : ARCH
25
Made a touchdown : SCORED
28
Kind of tennis stroke : BACKHAND
32
Player of pibrochs : PIPER
33
Strives successfully : COPES
34
Conjunction : NOR
35
Prayers : AVES
36
Is concerned : CARES
37
Icelandic literary work : EDDA
38
X : TEN
39
Blanket or lid : COVER
40
Sound from an unoiled hinge : CREAK
41
King of England: 978–1016 : ETHELRED
43
Cook gently : CODDLE
44
Wing-shaped : ALAR
45
Lake, source of the Blue Nile : TANA
46
Garb for "Second Hand Rose" : HANDMEDOWNS
50
Rex's Gallic relative : ROI
53
Wavy, in heraldry : UNDE
54
Be received; arrive : COMETOHAND
56
One on the move : GOER
57
Arboret, e.g. : TREE
58
Even : LEVEL
59
Finishes : ENDS
60
Ingredient of mortar : SAND
61
Mineral for grinding and polishing : EMERY
Down
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"Supermoney" author, ___ Smith : ADAM
2
Kind of keeper : TIME
3
Small flaps : TABS
4
"___ Mist," 1928 song : INA
5
Supermarket employee : CASHIER
6
Producers of cygnets : SWANS
7
His gun was for hire in 1942 : LADD
8
Declare : AVOW
9
Galleries or colonnades : TERRACES
10
Cloth sample : SWATCH
11
Like an insincere compliment : LEFTHANDED
12
Dies ___ : IRAE
13
Sea bird : TERN
18
Red chalcedony : SARD
22
Annoys : IRKS
23
The Greek Tiu : ARES
25
Sudden outpouring : SPATE
26
Little spotted skunk : CIVET
27
Liberal; generous : OPENHANDED
28
World-weary : BORED
29
Mimicker : APER
30
Pertaining to knots or bumps : NODAL
31
Male mallard : DRAKE
33
Home to a Paleolithic man : CAVE
36
Emends : CORRECTS
37
Wagnerian role : ERDA
39
Quahog : CLAM
40
Comfort or cheer : CONSOLE
42
Church officials : ELDERS
43
Argot : CANT
45
"Ring" leader of Tammany Hall : TWEED
46
Enormous : HUGE
47
"___, good nurse!": Juliet : ANON
48
One of the Copperfields : DORA
49
Straw in the wind : OMEN
50
Talk wildly : RAVE
51
Unique item or person : ONER
52
In a lazy manner : IDLY
55
Couturier's line : HEM

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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