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Kay Sullivan
Kay Sullivan

New York Times, Thursday, April 8, 1982

Author:
Kay Sullivan
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 308 (avg 1.66)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 25.4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Kay Sullivan has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,839
Across
1
A long time : AGES
5
Plant : MILL
9
Pillars of ore : JAMBS
14
Lead strip joining glass panes : CAME
15
"Pace, pace, mio Dio!" is one : ARIA
16
Part of a bird's wing : ALULA
17
Cruise : TRIP
18
Trimester : TERM
19
"Nuts ___," by C. O. Skinner : INMAY
20
Meaningless talk : ABRACADABRA
23
Schoolboy's vehicle : BUS
24
Name for a collie : LAD
25
Mélange : OLIO
27
Rowan : ASH
30
Watch pockets : FOBS
33
Dixieland band instrument : BANJO
35
Share the burden : COOPERATE
38
Habituate : INURE
40
U.S. playwright : LUCE
41
Belly-flops : SLEDS
43
Discharge : EMIT
44
Take over forcefully : USURP
46
Long Island town : SAGHARBOR
48
Musicians' org. : ASCAP
50
Cry, Irish style : KEEN
51
___ for the books : ONE
52
Hawaiian goddess : PELE
53
Relative of an ump : REF
55
Ziegfeld : FLO
57
Meaningless talk : JABBERWOCKY
64
School for Luis : LICEO
66
Unless, to Belli : NISI
67
Inter ___ : ALIA
68
Occupied : INUSE
69
Penny ___ : ANTE
70
Suburbanite's pride : LAWN
71
Peevish : TESTY
72
The ___ of March : IDES
73
Belt : SWIG
Down
1
___ Sanctorum : ACTA
2
Attire : GARB
3
Moslem ruler : EMIR
4
Part of a calyx : SEPAL
5
Arruza and Manolete : MATADORS
6
Angered : IRED
7
Monetary unit of Turkey : LIRA
8
Innocent : LAMB
9
Ball game played with baskets : JAIALAI
10
North Sea feeder : ALN
11
Meaningless talk : MUMBOJUMBO
12
Blue, to Dürer : BLAU
13
Simon ___ : SAYS
21
Barroom : CAFE
22
Hold up : ROB
26
Kind of circle or tube : INNER
27
Rights org. : ACLU
28
U.S. composer : SOUSA
29
Meaningless talk : HOCUSPOCUS
31
Parisian social events : BALS
32
Tartare or Swiss : STEAK
34
Rigel's constellation : ORION
36
Nez ___ (Indian group) : PERCE
37
Brink : EDGE
39
Basic French verb : ETRE
42
Products of Jerez : SHERRIES
45
Rodgers and Hart 1940 success : PALJOEY
47
Once more : ANEW
49
Kind of jacket : PEA
54
Young donkeys : FOALS
55
Flutter : FLIT
56
Kind of drawing : LINE
58
___ B'rith : BNAI
59
Difficult situation : BIND
60
Opposite direction from oeste : ESTE
61
Chela : CLAW
62
New Zealand bird : KIWI
63
Yin's partner : YANG
65
Part of i.e. : EST

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

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