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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Tuesday, May 19, 1981

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { B F H J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 243 (avg 1.30)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 28.6
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,515
Across
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Fog's kin : MIST
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Potpourri : OLIO
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Rind : SKIN
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Piedmontese city : ASTI
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"Inferno" creator : DANTE
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S.A. monkey : TITI
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Harvest : REAP
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Pungent bulb : ONION
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Relative of alack : ALAS
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An inch equals 2.54 of these : CENTIMETERS
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Wave on the Spanish Main : OLA
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What ten tenths equal : ONE
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King or Grundy : SOLOMON
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Set in from the margin : INDENTED
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Shirley ___, Met mezzo-soprano : LOVE
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Sheltered side : LEE
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Cut : SEVER
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Father, to Cicero : PATER
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Like a kook : LOCO
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Reduces spuds to granules : RICES
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Helen of Troy's mother : LEDA
44
Scissors : SNIPS
46
Singer Lenya : LOTTE
48
Rent : RIP
49
Hybrid equine : MULE
51
Adherents of actuality : REALISTS
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Sit in authority : PRESIDE
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One of 60 in an hr. : MIN
57
Nonsense! : ROT
58
An inch equals 25.4 of these : MILLIMETERS
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Lyric poetry : ODES
66
City in Belgium : LIEGE
67
Curved molding : OGEE
68
___ Here, schooner in "Captains Courageous" : WERE
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Antsy : EAGER
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Main church area : NAVE
71
Misplaced : LOST
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Swift Atl. crossers : SSTS
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Early garden : EDEN
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Vintage residue : MARC
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Words of comprehension : ISEE
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Ollie's partner : STAN
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Proceed carefully : TIPTOE
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Mileage recorder : ODOMETER
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Rural way : LANE
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"What's ___ for me?" : INIT
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Nebraskan Indians : OTOES
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Music direction : STA
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Sixty-four of these equal about 40 miles : KILOMETERS
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Aviator Balbo : ITALO
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Hebrew month : NISAN
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Sign up : ENROL
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Wayside taverns : INNS
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Spill over : SLOP
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Elliptical : OVAL
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Maladies : ILLS
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Inert gas : NEON
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Nine of these equal about a yard : DECIMETERS
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Wicked : EVIL
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Ornamentation : DECOR
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Network of nerves : RETE
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Correct copy : EDIT
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Smacks : RAPS
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Musical work : OPUS
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Is far from glib : STAMMERS
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Svelte : SLIM
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Critic Faure : ELIE
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Roman official : EDILE
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Chant : INTONE
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Patrol stealthily : PROWL
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Western extravaganza : RODEO
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Inventor Howe : ELIAS
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Relay-race elements : LEGS
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"___ a Kick Out of You" : IGET
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Mild expletive : EGAD
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Dream, in Dijon : REVE
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Observed : SEEN
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Matched group : SET

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1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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