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Kay Sullivan
Kay Sullivan

New York Times, Tuesday, November 10, 1981

Author:
Kay Sullivan
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 30.3
Kay Sullivan has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,690
Across
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Isinglass : MICA
5
American lithographer : IVES
9
Rice dish : PILAF
14
Aces : ONES
15
Prefix with phone or cycle : MEGA
16
Close, to a poet : ANEAR
17
Samovars : URNS
18
___ Maiden of Nuremberg : IRON
19
Netsuke material : IVORY
20
Key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics : ROSETTASTONE
23
Sartre novel : NAUSEA
24
Mid-ocean : OPENSEA
28
Campus activists' org. : SDS
29
Extreme limit : UTMOST
32
Protective covering, for short : TARP
33
Pawn : TOOL
34
Weird : EERIE
35
"Sic transit ___" : GLORIAMUNDI
39
Encore : AGAIN
41
Recover : FIND
42
Kind of service : SELF
43
City of St. Francis : ASSISI
45
Cheer : RAH
48
Hypersensitivity to a specific substance : ALLERGY
50
Antagonism : ENMITY
52
Early stringed instrument : VIOLADAGAMBA
55
Show opposition : REBEL
58
City map : PLAT
59
___ the line (obeyed orders) : TOED
60
Came up : AROSE
61
Tortoise's competitor : HARE
62
"___ Quam Videri," N.C. motto : ESSE
63
Irish poet-playwright : YEATS
64
Deposit at the G.P.O. : SEND
65
Soaks : RETS
Down
1
Emulates Niobe : MOURNS
2
Sudden raid : INROAD
3
U.S.A. comes to its ___ every 10 years : CENSUS
4
Hinnies' mothers : ASSES
5
Mimic : IMITATOR
6
Wilde work : VERA
7
Psychiatrists' topics : EGOS
8
Mexican church figures : SANTOS
9
Author of "The Age of Reason" : PAINE
10
Fabricated : INVENTED
11
Zodiacal sign : LEO
12
River in Switzerland : AAR
13
Small fish : FRY
21
German : TEUTON
22
Make a choice : OPT
25
Hindu garment : SARI
26
Silkworm : ERI
27
Anthropoid : APE
30
French pronoun : MOI
31
Kings of Norway : OLAFS
34
Finish : ENDING
35
Vex : GALL
36
Safety item on a plane : LIFEVEST
37
Early 11th-century date : MII
38
Dethroned : UNSEATED
39
Big ___ house : ASA
40
Set : GEL
43
Before now : AGO
44
Slender, graceful women : SYLPHS
45
Full of fissures : RIMOSE
46
Under the most favorable conditions : ATBEST
47
Cluster of stars in Taurus : HYADES
49
Gets one's goat : RILES
51
Alma ___ : MATER
53
Amor's appendages : ALAE
54
"___ That Dream," 1939 song : DARN
55
Violet ___ : RAY
56
"___ yet we loose the legions": Kipling : ERE
57
Neckpiece : BOA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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