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Kathryn Righter
New York Times, Friday, April 9, 1982
Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { B J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 235 (avg 1.28)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 21.6
Grid has duplicate clues.
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 I | 3 N | 4 G | 5 L | 6 E | 7 M | 8 E | 9 R | 10 E | |||||
11 P | I | T | E | O | U | S | 12 P | A | T | E | N | 13 T | ||
14 E | L | E | G | A | N | T | 15 E | N | A | C | T | E | 16 D |
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17 T | I | R | 18 T | E | A | 19 S | E | 20 S | A | R | T | O |
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21 A | C | A | 22 D | 23 S | T | O | V | 24 E | 25 P | E | O | N |
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26 L | O | T | U | 27 S | 28 E | L | I | A | 29 S | 30 A | N | T |
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31 N | E | S | T | 32 S | 33 A | S | S | E | 34 R | T | S | |||
35 T | E | A | 36 L | 37 H | E | R | A | |||||||
38 P | 39 E | S | E | T | A | 40 S | 41 L | U | N | 42 G | 43 E | |||
44 L | E | R | 45 P | A | R | I | 46 S | 47 M | I | L | N | 48 E |
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49 E | A | R | 50 P | 51 N | I | G | H | 52 T | 53 S | E | T | S |
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54 S | N | A | R | 55 E | 56 S | H | O | R | 57 E | 58 E | R | E |
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59 S | U | T | U | R | 60 E | S | 61 D | O | L | 62 E | F | U | L |
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63 T | U | N | D | R | A | 64 D | I | S | C | U | S | S |
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65 M | E | A | N | 66 Y | S | E | U | L | T |
© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,840
Across
1
Alone : SINGLE
7
Plain : MERE
11
Arousing compassion : PITEOUS
12
Plain : PATENT
14
Tastefully ornate : ELEGANT
15
Made into law : ENACTED
17
French shooting match : TIR
18
Card wool : TEASE
20
Artist Andrea del ___ : SARTO
21
Ed. institution : ACAD
23
Kitchen apparatus : STOVE
25
Latin laborer : PEON
26
Blossom in Hindu art : LOTUS
28
Inventor Howe : ELIAS
30
Emmet : ANT
31
Aeries, e.g. : NESTS
33
Avers : ASSERTS
35
Duck : TEAL
37
Queen of the gods : HERA
38
Coins of Spain : PESETAS
41
Sudden thrust : LUNGE
44
Irish god of the sea : LER
45
A son of Priam : PARIS
47
He wrote "The Dover Road" : MILNE
49
U.S. frontiersman : EARP
51
Kind of club : NIGHT
53
Parts of some matches : SETS
54
Trap : SNARE
56
Beach : SHORE
58
Homophone for air : ERE
59
Surgeon's stitches : SUTURES
61
Plaintive : DOLEFUL
63
Alaskan plain : TUNDRA
64
Consider formally : DISCUSS
65
Average : MEAN
66
Beloved of Tristram: Var. : YSEULT
Down
1
Element used in transistors : SILICON
2
State repeatedly : ITERATE
3
Opposite of pos. : NEG
4
Zodiac beast : GOAT
5
Leashes for hawks : LUNES
6
Manorial landholding : ESTATE
7
Valet : MAN
8
Greek letters : ETAS
9
Made-over tire : RECAP
10
Implore : ENTREAT
11
Flower part : PETAL
12
Cross : PEEVISH
13
Western range : TETONS
16
Common contraction : DONT
19
Alone, as a diva : SOLA
22
Does a housekeeping chore : DUSTS
24
Artist's purchase : EASEL
27
Saturate : STEEP
29
Whey of milk : SERUM
32
Lucifer : SATAN
34
Indian princesses : RANIS
36
City in Thessaly : LARISSA
38
Plains, Georgia product : PEANUT
39
Typesetter's goof : ERRATUM
40
Plaintive sound : SIGH
42
Far from plaintive : GLEEFUL
43
Give for safekeeping : ENTRUST
44
Not so much : LESS
46
Inferior : SHODDY
48
Bonn beasts : ESELS
50
Dried fruit : PRUNE
52
Ménage à ___ : TROIS
55
Wagnerian role : ERDA
57
Otherwise : ELSE
60
Piscatorial bird : ERN
62
Old French coin : ECU
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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