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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

New York Times, Friday, December 18, 1981

Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 26.6
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,728
Across
1
Available dough : WAD
4
Beaufort-scale readings : GALES
9
Dolce ___ niente : FAR
12
Guinness or Waugh : ALEC
14
Plains Indian : OSAGE
15
Gaucho's weapon : BOLA
16
Isomeric : ALLO
17
Talk arrogantly : USURP
18
Press : IRON
19
Spur on a bird's leg or wing : CALCAR
21
Cleansed : DETERGED
23
Washington city, river or county : YAKIMA
25
Diacritical mark : TILDE
26
Certain exams : ORALS
28
Dress : CLOTHE
31
German title : GRAF
34
N.B.A. team : NETS
36
Fasten; attach : AFFIX
37
Item in some budgets : RENT
38
Breed of swine : DUROC
40
Succulent part of fruit : PULP
41
Vows : OATHS
43
Wee : TINY
44
Choir member : ALTO
45
Welcomes : GREETS
47
Ancient Britons : PICTS
49
Expect : AWAIT
51
Agraffes : CLASPS
54
Incised carving : INTAGLIO
57
Mushroom : AGARIC
59
Carol : NOEL
60
Urged (on) : EGGED
62
Departed : GONE
63
Product from Quercus suber : CORK
64
Courage; daring : NERVE
65
Level : EVEN
66
Reply: Abbr. : ANS
67
Arboretum specimens : TREES
68
Triple this for a wine : EST
Down
1
British servicewoman : WAAC
2
Calm : ALLAY
3
Perry Mason's girl Friday : DELLA
4
Epicure : GOURMAND
5
Onager : ASS
6
Doxologize : LAUD
7
Heron : EGRET
8
Infective : SEPTIC
9
Absent-minded : FORGETFUL
10
Relative of a maguey : ALOE
11
South African monetary unit : RAND
13
Domineering leader : COCKOFTHEWALK
15
Transient; rover : BIRDOFPASSAGE
20
Make public : AIR
22
Singer Fitzgerald : ELLA
24
Alaskan native's language : ALEUT
27
Long, narrow piece : STRIP
29
Sword part : HILT
30
Montreal baseball player : EXPO
31
Rum and water : GROG
32
Raise : REAR
33
Echidnas, e.g. : ANTEATERS
35
Kind of boom : SONIC
39
Islands in the Aegean : CYCLADES
42
Male animal : STAG
46
"___ Spring," R. Carson book : SILENT
48
Children's game : TAG
50
Jungle denizen : TIGER
52
Show to be true : PROVE
53
Trig functions : SINES
54
Ancient Peruvian : INCA
55
" ... the blaze of ___": Milton : NOON
56
Fairy-tale villain : OGRE
58
Penny-ante ante : CENT
61
Creation from a rib : EVE

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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