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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

New York Times, Thursday, June 27, 1985

48-Across : Advanced study group

Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,015
Across
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Erstwhile gas-station giveaways : MAPS
5
"Arrivederci ___" : ROMA
9
Wild duck : SCAUP
14
Gelling agent : AGAR
15
Youngest of the gods : EROS
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Esthete's attribute : TASTE
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Noisy revels : CAROUSALS
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Soviet cooperative : ARTEL
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Took potluck : ATE
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Noisy spook : POLTERGEIST
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Antigone's father : OEDIPUS
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Symbol of poverty : RAGS
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Place of squalor : DEN
27
Highlighted : STRESSED
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Agreement : ACCORD
34
Legal equal : PEER
35
Be nosy : PRY
36
Stud-farm product : FOAL
37
Frenzied : MAD
38
Circuit safeguard : FUSE
39
The works : ALL
40
Disgrace : BLOT
42
Squiffed : STONED
44
Doesn't indulge : REFRAINS
46
Private eye : TEC
47
Province of Sicily : ENNA
48
Advanced study group : SEMINAR
52
Noise from on high : THUNDERCLAP
56
Bowed sash : OBI
57
Lariat eye : HONDA
58
Noisy : CLAMOROUS
60
Green-card holder : ALIEN
61
B.S.A. activity : HIKE
62
Being, in philosophy : ESSE
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One more than tri : TETRA
64
Made tracks : SPED
65
Antelope's playmate : DEER
Down
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Portuguese territory : MACAO
2
Marble : AGATE
3
Shaved a Baldwin : PARED
4
Sign of success : SRO
5
Extol loudly : RESOUND
6
Certain exams : ORALS
7
Shed : MOLT
8
Said with conviction : ASSERTED
9
Arrange alternately : STAGGER
10
Pet : CARESS
11
___ spumante : ASTI
12
Salt Lake City team : UTES
13
Trapper's trophy : PELT
18
Kind of berth : UPPER
22
Less than medium : RARE
24
Object of devotion : IDOL
27
Mudguards of a sort : SPATS
28
Whirled : SPUN
29
Celtic tongue : ERSE
30
Colored, in a way : DYED
31
Way out yonder : AFAR
32
King or Natalie : COLE
33
Young hippo : CALF
37
Big butterflies : MONARCHS
38
Central points : FOCI
40
Colorful kerchief : BANDANA
41
Rock Island or B.&O. : LINE
42
Prepared cherrystones : STEAMED
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Mehta's rate : TEMPO
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Melt down : RENDER
48
Satisfy a thirst : SLAKE
49
Vigilante "necktie" : NOOSE
50
Vituperation : ABUSE
51
Ex-sleeper : RISER
52
" ... a man for a' ___": Burns : THAT
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Target for Tom Kite : HOLE
54
Standard quantity : UNIT
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Trim : CLIP
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Menshevik's foe : RED

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