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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

New York Times, Wednesday, July 11, 1979

Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 58.4
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,837
Across
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Sulky mood : HUFF
5
Majestic : GRAND
10
Fountain beverage : COLA
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Seed cover : ARIL
15
Red ___ (children's game) : ROVER
16
Jezebel's husband : AHAB
17
Tom peeped at her and went blind : LADYGODIVA
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Domesticated : TAME
20
Knocks down : FLOORS
21
Lightweight horse-drawn wagon : DEMOCRAT
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Clenched hand : FIST
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Slices of bacon : RASHERS
26
Group at boot camp : DRAFTEES
30
Tisane, e.g. : TEA
31
Hop kilns : OASTS
32
Places : LOCI
34
Counterfeit : SHAM
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Member of a Hindu sect : SIKH
39
"Go down to Kew in ___ time": Noyes : LILAC
40
Sugar source : CANE
41
Other : ELSE
42
Adjectival suffix : ICAL
43
Convincing : VALID
44
Goldwater is one : HAM
46
Move to a new community : RESETTLE
48
Ceremonial processions : PARADES
52
Variety of pear : BOSC
53
Flood : INUNDATE
55
Goddess of wisdom : ATHENA
59
Milk product used in cheese : CURD
60
Diverted : DISTRACTED
62
Verbal : ORAL
63
Dinsmore or Venner : ELSIE
64
Iota : ATOM
65
Saga : TALE
66
Spirited mount : STEED
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Convent dwellers : NUNS
Down
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Word with wit, moon or dollar : HALF
2
Russian river : URAL
3
Canine appellation : FIDO
4
Lose one's temper : FLYOFFTHEHANDLE
5
___ Pointe, Mich. : GROSSE
6
Distance measure : ROD
7
Eager : AVID
8
"Positively not!" : NEVER
9
Like Racine's works : DRAMATIC
10
Without specific plan or order : CATCHASCATCHCAN
11
Chicago airport : OHARE
12
Missouri birthplace of H.S.T. : LAMAR
13
Promotes : ABETS
18
Coarse hominy : GRITS
22
Full of: Suffix : OSE
24
Tending to a definite end : TELIC
26
Medicinal quantity : DOSE
27
Race-track position : RAIL
28
Inquires : ASKS
29
Kind of energy : SOLAR
33
Hebrew sent as a spy to Canaan : CALEB
35
End : HALT
36
Blue dye : ANIL
37
Native of Ecbatana : MEDE
39
Summer beverages : LIMEADES
43
Goddess of the hearth : VESTA
45
Append : ADD
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Flew upward : SOARED
48
Ornamental loop : PICOT
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Order including frogs, toads, etc. : ANURA
50
Bucolic : RURAL
51
Avocet's cousin : STILT
54
Actual being : ESSE
56
"___, Brute!" : ETTU
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Kind of light : NEON
58
Naval V.I.P.'s : ADMS
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Cravat : TIE

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

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