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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

New York Times, Friday, April 9, 1982

61-Across : Plaintive

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 has duplicate clues.
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,840
Across
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Alone : SINGLE
7
Plain : MERE
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Arousing compassion : PITEOUS
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Plain : PATENT
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Tastefully ornate : ELEGANT
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Made into law : ENACTED
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French shooting match : TIR
18
Card wool : TEASE
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Artist Andrea del ___ : SARTO
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Ed. institution : ACAD
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Kitchen apparatus : STOVE
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Latin laborer : PEON
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Blossom in Hindu art : LOTUS
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Inventor Howe : ELIAS
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Emmet : ANT
31
Aeries, e.g. : NESTS
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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
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Kind of club : NIGHT
53
Parts of some matches : SETS
54
Trap : SNARE
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Beach : SHORE
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Homophone for air : ERE
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Surgeon's stitches : SUTURES
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Plaintive : DOLEFUL
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Alaskan plain : TUNDRA
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Consider formally : DISCUSS
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Average : MEAN
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Beloved of Tristram: Var. : YSEULT
Down
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Element used in transistors : SILICON
2
State repeatedly : ITERATE
3
Opposite of pos. : NEG
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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
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Western range : TETONS
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Common contraction : DONT
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Alone, as a diva : SOLA
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Does a housekeeping chore : DUSTS
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Artist's purchase : EASEL
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Saturate : STEEP
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Whey of milk : SERUM
32
Lucifer : SATAN
34
Indian princesses : RANIS
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City in Thessaly : LARISSA
38
Plains, Georgia product : PEANUT
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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

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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