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Marie West
Marie West

New York Times, Wednesday, January 21, 1981

Author:
Marie West
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Grid flow: 26.3
Marie West has 21 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,397
Across
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Associate of Manet : DEGAS
6
Viziers' superiors : AGAS
10
Ancient Semitic deity : BAAL
14
Prevent : AVERT
15
Arrearage : DEBT
16
Where Vulcan forged : ETNA
17
Title for a caballero : SENOR
18
Like a human dynamo : ENERGETIC
20
Pitch : RESIN
22
List-ending abbr. : ETAL
23
Cry in a frontón : OLE
24
Fix : REPAIR
26
Scored between birdie and bogey : PARRED
28
Saratoga, e.g. : SPA
30
Alone onstage, as a diva : SOLA
31
Oxford fellow : DON
32
Soapstone : TALC
34
Shed : MOLT
36
" ... care's an ___ to life": Shak. : ENEMY
39
"Lohengrin," to Wagner : OPER
40
Arabian Sea feeder : INDUS
42
Fuchsin and eosin : DYES
43
Part of a sunflower : PALEA
45
Of aircraft : AERO
46
Monster : OGRE
47
Poetic time : EEN
48
Personage : LION
50
Suffix with sonnet : EER
51
St. Thomas à ___ : BECKET
54
Detain, as an alien : INTERN
56
Informer : RAT
57
Con's knife : SHIV
59
Bullock : STEER
61
Athenian statesman called "the Just" : ARISTIDES
64
Region in Austria and Italy : TIROL
66
___-eyed : SLOE
67
Agrippina's son : NERO
68
Growing out : ENATE
69
Film editor's concern, for short : SYNC
70
What Aussies call a stonker : KAYO
71
Valleys : DALES
Down
1
Sudermann's "___ hohe Lied" : DAS
2
___ and anon : EVER
3
November event : GENERALELECTION
4
Originated : AROSE
5
What an ecdysiast does : STRIPS
6
Drink : ADE
7
Post office department : GENERALDELIVERY
8
Help an arsonist : ABET
9
Item wielded in a woodshed : STRAP
10
Drone, for one : BEE
11
Chief law officer : ATTORNEYGENERAL
12
Infirm : ANILE
13
Added cognac : LACED
19
Open space in a woods : GLADE
21
Ruth's mother-in-law : NAOMI
25
Actress Massey : ILONA
27
Musical composition : RONDO
28
Cease : STOP
29
One of the Goldbergs : PAPA
33
Inlet : CREEK
35
"The Detroit of Italy" : TURIN
37
Apt rhyme for sheer : MERE
38
Battle site: 1914–18 : YSER
41
"It ___ me!" (chimney sweep's cry) : SOOTS
44
"___ of robins ... ": Kilmer : ANEST
49
Caught : NETTED
51
Gall : BRASS
52
Primitive : EARLY
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Cogitate : THINK
55
Sophia is one : REINA
58
Concept : IDEA
60
Learning method : ROTE
62
Dry, as wine : SEC
63
Canals in U.S. and Canada : SOO
65
"___ Misérables": Hugo : LES

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