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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Monday, August 22, 1983

19-Across : Sister of Ares

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,340
Across
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Plod : SLOG
5
Day of songdom and filmdom : DORIS
10
Seasoning : SAGE
14
Track-meet "elevator" : POLE
15
Oust : EVICT
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Anjou or Bosc : PEAR
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Wind gauge : ANEMOMETER
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Sister of Ares : ERIS
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Hyson, for one : TEA
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Withered : SERE
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"When Day ___," 1926 song : ISDONE
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Hemingway : ERNEST
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Anatomical divider : SEPTUM
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Menotti's "Amelia ___ to the Ball" : GOES
30
Bounders' kin : LEAPERS
33
Volcanic scoria : SLAG
36
Turning on an axis : ROTARY
38
Low digit : TOE
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___-walsy : PALSY
41
Beer container : VAT
42
Food fish : SMELT
44
Lawyer: Abbr. : ATT
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___ dictum (incidental opinion) : OBITER
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Angers : IRES
49
Roofing unit : SHINGLE
51
Adroit : DEFT
53
Half : MOIETY
55
Stylish : DRESSY
59
Variegated rock : GNEISS
61
River in Spain : EBRO
63
One ___ time : ATA
64
Decomposes : ROTS
65
Skipper's speed-measuring device : SILLOMETER
68
Out of the wind : ALEE
69
Greece, to a Greek : ELLAS
70
Mountain pool : TARN
71
Keeps out : BARS
72
Tivoli's Villa ___ : DESTE
73
Singletons : ONES
Down
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Outpouring : SPATE
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Hermit : LONER
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City in N.Y. : OLEAN
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Sparkler : GEM
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Goddess of fertility : DEMETER
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Finished : OVER
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Ceremonies : RITES
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Jewels, to a yegg : ICE
9
Game fish : STRIPER
10
Accelerated : SPEDUP
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Gas-density gauge : AEROMETER
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Make progress : GAIN
13
Gaelic : ERSE
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___ buco, Italian dish : OSSO
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Reprieves : STAYS
25
Urges, with "on" : EGGS
27
Heartened : ELATED
29
Russian council : SOVIET
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Part : ROLE
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What Sol does, out West : SETS
33
Baths of a sort : SPAS
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Lattice component : LATH
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Height gauge : ALTIMETER
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Make lace : TAT
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Hindu ascetics : YOGIS
43
Widow's ___ (pittance) : MITE
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Sanctified : BLESSED
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" ... I Wore a Big ___" : REDROSE
50
Bruits : NOISES
52
"Take it ___ the top" : FROM
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Shouts : YELLS
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Old Nick : SATAN
57
Cubic meter : STERE
58
Stories : YARNS
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Clutch : GRAB
60
Piano favorite : NOLA
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Calf's cry : BLAT
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___ de France : ILE
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W.W. II theater : ETO

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