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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Tuesday, September 20, 1983

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 309 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 57.4
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,369
Across
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Prepare for a trip : PACK
5
Paternal uncle of Mohammed : ABBAS
10
Kind of medic or trooper : PARA
14
Will-___-wisp : OTHE
15
Bring about : CAUSE
16
Moslem's call to prayer : AZAN
17
Additional : MORE
18
Science of codes : CRYPTOLOGY
20
Substantive substitutes : PRONOUNS
22
Unimportant matters : TRIVIA
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Tidings : NEWS
24
Small valley : GLEN
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Derided : SCORNED
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Charges a weapon again : RELOADS
32
Wire measure : MIL
33
Diaskeuast : EDITOR
35
Lose hold of : DROP
36
Audibly : ALOUD
38
Member of the brass : VIP
39
Hundred: Comb. form : HECTO
40
Affix an autograph : SIGN
41
Roman statesman-writer : CICERO
43
Ferlinghetti novel : HER
44
Bumpkin : HAYSEED
46
Most thickly populated : DENSEST
48
Bamboo or rattan : CANE
49
Apollo's mother : LETO
50
Bart and Belle : STARRS
53
Raised a nap on cloth : TEASELED
57
Head-bump study : PHRENOLOGY
59
Orifice : PORE
60
Bird's crop : CRAW
61
Punjabi princess : RANEE
62
Arctic abode : IGLU
63
Chicago nine : CUBS
64
De Bergerac's weapon : SWORD
65
Olga's negative : NYET
Down
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Brilliant display : POMP
2
Suffix with origin : ATOR
3
Science of time arrangement : CHRONOLOGY
4
Not so obtuse : KEENER
5
Indicted : ACCUSED
6
Cow shelter : BARN
7
Purchases : BUYS
8
Viper : ASP
9
Early inhabitant : SETTLER
10
Recantation : PALINODE
11
U.S.S.R. sea : AZOV
12
African cereal grass : RAGI
13
___ Seton, "Dragonwyck" author : ANYA
19
Russian grain center : OREL
21
Possessed : OWNED
24
Searched blindly : GROPED
25
Shatter : SMASH
26
Eyelashes : CILIA
27
Apportion : DIVIDE
29
Prehistoric-culture study : ARCHEOLOGY
30
Is too affectionate : DOTES
31
Big spender : SPORT
34
Facial twitch : TIC
37
Removes a light bulb : UNSCREWS
39
Whets : HONES
41
Morality supervisors : CENSORS
42
Forwarded in stages : RELAYED
45
Be gainfully employed : EARN
47
Kind of garment : STEPIN
50
Agcy. fighting child abuse : SPCC
51
Word with traffic or way : THRU
52
Syrian or Jordanian : ARAB
53
Up ___ good : TONO
54
European river or city : EGER
55
Author Gardner : ERLE
56
Fifth bk. of the Pentateuch : DEUT
58
Canon : LAW

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

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