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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

New York Times, Friday, February 10, 1978

26-Down : "Lizzie Borden took ___ ... "

Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { F J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 26.7
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,408
Across
1
V.I.P. in Teheran : SHAH
5
Soprano Calvé : EMMA
9
French ecclesiastics : ABBES
14
Welles role : KANE
15
Word with runner or block : ROAD
16
Enraged : IRATE
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Feminine nickname : ETTA
18
Annul : UNDO
19
Dull finish : MATTE
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Hypocrite : WHITEDSEPULCHER
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"___ Laughing," Irvin S. Cobb's autobiography : EXIT
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Arduous journey : TREK
25
Clear instruction : MANDATE
28
Intrinsic nature : ESSENCE
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Divers information : ANA
33
Matelot's milieu : MER
34
Base coward : DASTARD
35
Ram down : TAMP
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For men only : STAG
38
Did calisthenics : EXERTED
42
Bad ___, German spa : EMS
45
Relative of st. : AVE
46
Earn : DESERVE
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Blotched in coloring : MOTTLED
49
Earth : SOIL
50
___-dieu (kneeling bench) : PRIE
51
"Dangerous" school product : ALITTLELEARNING
58
Restrain : LIMIT
59
Convex moldings : TORI
60
Short piece of wool : NOIL
61
Figure of speech : IMAGE
62
College subj. : ECON
63
Ancient Peruvian : INCA
64
Less wild : TAMER
65
Miffed : SORE
66
Kind of pearl : SEED
Down
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Take an oblique course : SKEW
2
"Music ___ charms ... " : HATH
3
Prefix with freeze or knock : ANTI
4
Like some arguments : HEATED
5
Scholarly : ERUDITE
6
Centaur or Minotaur : MONSTER
7
Fabricated : MADE
8
Taken for one's own : ADOPTED
9
Wanting in purpose : AIMLESS
10
Categorizes : BRACKETS
11
Hotel feature : BATH
12
Diminutive suffix : ETTE
13
Expert in divination : SEER
21
Midterm event : EXAM
22
Dipper milieu : URSA
25
Paired : MATED
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"Lizzie Borden took ___ ... " : ANAXE
27
Contents of an onomasticon : NAMES
29
South African province : NATAL
30
Long for : CRAVE
31
Bordered : EDGED
36
Influence : PRESTIGE
39
Hambletonian entrant : TROTTER
40
Iniquitous : EVIL
41
Takes out : DELETES
42
Beethoven's "The ___ Concerto" : EMPEROR
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Mass of boulders, etc. left by a glacier : MORAINE
44
Agitate : STIR
48
Where "deuce" means "even" : TENNIS
51
Came to earth : ALIT
52
Kind of bean : LIMA
53
Moslem V.I.P. : IMAM
54
Gone bonkers : LOCO
55
"Last Days of Pompeii" heroine : IONE
56
Agreeable : NICE
57
Happy : GLAD

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

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