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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Tuesday, May 19, 1981

44-Across : Scissors

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
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
5
Potpourri : OLIO
9
Rind : SKIN
13
Piedmontese city : ASTI
14
"Inferno" creator : DANTE
16
S.A. monkey : TITI
17
Harvest : REAP
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Pungent bulb : ONION
19
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
24
What ten tenths equal : ONE
25
King or Grundy : SOLOMON
27
Set in from the margin : INDENTED
32
Shirley ___, Met mezzo-soprano : LOVE
33
Sheltered side : LEE
34
Cut : SEVER
36
Father, to Cicero : PATER
39
Like a kook : LOCO
41
Reduces spuds to granules : RICES
43
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
53
Sit in authority : PRESIDE
56
One of 60 in an hr. : MIN
57
Nonsense! : ROT
58
An inch equals 25.4 of these : MILLIMETERS
64
Lyric poetry : ODES
66
City in Belgium : LIEGE
67
Curved molding : OGEE
68
___ Here, schooner in "Captains Courageous" : WERE
69
Antsy : EAGER
70
Main church area : NAVE
71
Misplaced : LOST
72
Swift Atl. crossers : SSTS
73
Early garden : EDEN
Down
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Vintage residue : MARC
2
Words of comprehension : ISEE
3
Ollie's partner : STAN
4
Proceed carefully : TIPTOE
5
Mileage recorder : ODOMETER
6
Rural way : LANE
7
"What's ___ for me?" : INIT
8
Nebraskan Indians : OTOES
9
Music direction : STA
10
Sixty-four of these equal about 40 miles : KILOMETERS
11
Aviator Balbo : ITALO
12
Hebrew month : NISAN
15
Sign up : ENROL
21
Wayside taverns : INNS
22
Spill over : SLOP
26
Elliptical : OVAL
27
Maladies : ILLS
28
Inert gas : NEON
29
Nine of these equal about a yard : DECIMETERS
30
Wicked : EVIL
31
Ornamentation : DECOR
35
Network of nerves : RETE
37
Correct copy : EDIT
38
Smacks : RAPS
40
Musical work : OPUS
42
Is far from glib : STAMMERS
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Svelte : SLIM
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Critic Faure : ELIE
50
Roman official : EDILE
52
Chant : INTONE
53
Patrol stealthily : PROWL
54
Western extravaganza : RODEO
55
Inventor Howe : ELIAS
59
Relay-race elements : LEGS
60
"___ a Kick Out of You" : IGET
61
Mild expletive : EGAD
62
Dream, in Dijon : REVE
63
Observed : SEEN
65
Matched group : SET

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

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