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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Wednesday, July 28, 1982

45-Down : Sojourn

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { G J Q X }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 34.0
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,950
Across
1
Penny ___ : ANTE
5
Purposeful : TELIC
10
Craft : SHIP
14
Hammy comic's output : CORN
15
Japanese seaport : OSAKA
16
Rent : TORE
17
Gibson hit play: 1958 : TWOFORTHESEESAW
20
Swizzle stick : STIRRER
21
Drinking bouts : SPREES
22
Two-legged wolf's look : LEER
23
Mexican laborer : PEON
24
Union branches : LOCALS
27
Kitchen utensils : POTS
28
Tasseled Turkish topper : FEZ
31
Boric and prussic ___ : ACIDS
32
Nut's partner : BOLT
33
Scottish hillside : BRAE
34
Dumas swashbucklers : THREEMUSKETEERS
37
Fouls up : ERRS
38
Olive, for Ovid : OLEA
39
Fragrant : OLENT
40
Friend of David : REI
41
Like some flowers : WILD
42
Affectedly nice : PRISSY
43
Maiden : LASS
44
Whale : CETE
45
Like a martinet : STRICT
48
"Green ___," old ballad : SLEEVES
51
Apocalypse group : THEFOURHORSEMEN
54
GHQ figure : AIDE
55
Waken : ROUSE
56
A practice that can't be wrong? : RITE
57
French-Belgian river : YSER
58
Trapped morays : EELED
59
Use a poniard : STAB
Down
1
Behave : ACT
2
"___ the Time to Fall in Love" : NOWS
3
Fox or turkey follower : TROT
4
Rakes with fire : ENFILADES
5
Strait off Australia : TORRES
6
Liquor component : ESTER
7
He played in "Waiting for Godot" : LAHR
8
Mamie's man : IKE
9
Tape-recorder adjunct : CASSETTE
10
Perlman contemporary : STERN
11
Water conveyor : HOSE
12
Dies ___ : IRAE
13
Church benches : PEWS
18
Threatening words : ORELSE
19
Collection of verses : EPOS
23
Dance in 2/4 time : POLKA
24
Afterward : LATER
25
Earth pigment, British style : OCHRE
26
Fleecy clouds : CIRRI
27
Modeled : POSED
28
Liberates : FREES
29
Is gainfully employed : EARNS
30
Piquant : ZESTY
32
Chicago N.B.A. team : BULLS
33
The faithful : BELIEVERS
35
What the Gobi needs : MOISTURE
36
Pastry : TORTES
41
City on the Brazos : WACO
42
Gazed : PEERED
43
Long-term convict : LIFER
44
Unventilated : CLOSE
45
Sojourn : STAY
46
"___ is it!" : THIS
47
" ... reck the ___": Burns : REDE
48
Synagogue : SHUL
49
Issue forth : EMIT
50
Bristle : SETA
52
Fish eggs : ROE
53
Bird's beak : NEB

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

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