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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

CHUG-A-LUG

New York Times, Sunday, May 26, 1985

43-Across : Meara's partner

Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 89, Avg Word Len: 4.96, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 523 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 100, Cheaters: 22, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,983
Across
1
Word on a towel : HERS
5
Satanists, e.g. : CULT
9
Tax-deferment plan, for short : IRA
12
Child's marble : TAW
15
Shanty : HOVEL
16
Arrow poison : INEE
17
Antonym of pos. : NEG
18
A Met score : ARIA
20
Monte Cassino monk : BENEDICTINE
22
Former province of France : CHAMPAGNE
25
Press : IRON
26
"Plaisir d'Amour" composer : MARTINI
28
Archeozoic, Paleozoic, etc. : ERAS
29
Radio's "Our ___ Sunday" : GAL
30
Civil wrong : TORT
31
Manner : MIEN
32
Characteristic : TRAIT
34
Cinder follower : ELLA
35
U.S.N. officer : ENS
36
Rudiments : ABCS
37
Put down; suppress : SCOTCH
38
Civil disturbance : RIOT
39
Calumet, e.g. : PIPE
41
Sounds of laughter : HAHAS
42
Joint : HINGE
43
Meara's partner : STILLER
46
Arno or Nero : PETER
47
Chimps' cousins : ORANGS
49
Smooth breathing : LENIS
50
Kingdom of Burgundy : ARLES
51
Chapeau ___ (a cocked hat) : BRAS
52
Medieval chest : ARCA
53
Goat antelopes : GORALS
55
Most courteous : POLITEST
59
Battle of Sept. 11, 1777 : BRANDYWINE
61
Epithet for a daughter of Henry VIII : BLOODYMARY
63
Reference mark : ASTERISK
64
Surpasses : TRUMPS
65
Supplication : PLEA
66
Vomer, for one : BONE
67
Pillow cases : SHAMS
68
Fig tree of India : PIPAL
69
Kind of soda : BAKING
72
Weapons for Boisse : EPEES
73
Run : OPERATE
75
Book of the Apocrypha : TOBIT
76
Mine entrances : ADITS
77
Practice that can't be wrong? : RITE
78
River in Brittany : OUST
79
Maple seed : SAMARA
81
Languish : FADE
83
Non compos mentis : MAD
86
G.R.F. was one : PRES
87
Resin used in varnish : ELEMI
88
Water plant : ALGA
89
Tear : RACE
90
Son (of) in Arabic names : IBN
91
Lunar crater : BEER
92
Oberon's spouse : TITANIA
95
School Orwell attended : ETON
96
A 1793 invention : COTTONGIN
99
Met battery in 1969 : TOMANDJERRY
101
Exigency : NEED
102
Symbol of excellence : ACE
103
A contemporary of Loti : ANET
104
Breed of cattle : DEVON
105
English cathedral city : ELY
106
Bandicoot : RAT
107
___-majesté : LESE
108
"Nana" star in 1934 : STEN
Down
1
Exalts : HONORS
2
Occurrence : EVENT
3
Part of A.R.C. : RED
4
Slender : SLIM
5
Of lemons, limes, etc. : CITRIC
6
Links : UNITES
7
"Since ___ Died": Max Eastman : LENIN
8
Lillums Lovewell's beau : TEEN
9
Business abbr. : INC
10
Warms over : REHEATS
11
Common edible mushroom : AGARIC
12
Removes a bung : TAPS
13
Altar in the sky : ARA
14
Squirmy : WIGGLING
15
Shore bird : HERON
19
Similar things : ANALOGS
20
Orthodontist's concern : BITE
21
Arch slightly : CAMBER
23
School subj. : MATH
24
Make one's day : ELATE
27
Minor irritations : ITCHES
33
Noise at Niagara : ROAR
34
Hibernia : ERIN
36
Gelada or siamang : APE
37
Fills to repletion : SATES
39
Flexible : PLIANT
40
French pronoun : ILS
41
Girl for whom a strait was named : HELLE
42
Kind of pudding : HASTY
43
Spot for Guidry's toe : SLAB
44
___ alba (gypsum) : TERRA
45
Viracocha was their chief god : INCAS
46
Gambado : PRANK
47
Warship's lowest deck : ORLOP
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Francis Marion's forte : RAIDS
50
Grow up : ARISE
51
TV studio devices : BOOMS
53
Heraldic charge : GYRON
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Attributable (to) : OWING
55
Fruits for politicians? : PLUMS
56
A 19th-century decorative style : EMPIRE
57
Oceanic tunicate : SALPA
58
Deal with : TREAT
60
Account entry : DEBIT
61
Scottish hillsides : BRAES
62
Mythical beast : YALE
64
Greek's "unlucky" letter : THETA
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Fairy, sprite or elf : SPIRIT
68
Fit of peevishness : PET
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Royal family of France : BOURBON
70
Kind of landlord : ABSENTEE
71
Young raccoons : KITS
72
Cheese made backward? : EDAM
73
Decree : ORDAIN
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Bird allied to a jay : PIE
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Subject : TOPIC
76
Ernest Bloch symphony : AMERICA
79
Viewed : SEEN
80
Type of vinegar : ALEGAR
81
Sights in Chicago in 1871 : FLAMES
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Related on Dad's side : AGNATE
83
Female guard : MATRON
84
Faller on Chicken Little : ACORN
85
Controvert : DENY
88
Make reparation : ATONE
89
Steward at a manor : REEVE
91
Fullness of flavor : BODY
93
Type of type: Abbr. : ITAL
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Appends : ADDS
97
___ Aviv : TEL
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Malines, e.g. : NET
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Namath in 1969 : JET

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