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Barbara Lunder Gillis
Barbara Lunder Gillis

KATHARINE THE GREAT

New York Times, Sunday, September 12, 1982

48-Across : Companion of true

Author:
Barbara Lunder Gillis
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 83, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { J X }, Scrabble score: 562 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 126, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Barbara Lunder Gillis has 18 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,996
Across
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Martha or Randolph of films : SCOTT
6
Life raft : BALSA
11
Gasconade : BRAG
15
Set : GEL
18
Pentateuch : TORAH
19
Fortified Portuguese city : ELVAS
20
Berra : YOGI
21
Windmill sail : AWE
22
Symbol : EMBLEM
24
Mariner's direction : APORT
25
Worried : HARASSED
27
The high cost of leaving : ABILLOFDIVORCEMENT
30
Witticism : MOT
31
Number of Disney Dalmations : IOI
32
Capital of Okinawa : NAHA
33
Original form of a word : ETYMON
37
Early bloomer : MORNINGGLORY
42
Gardner : AVA
43
City on the Vistula : TORUN
46
Danube feeder : ISAR
47
Shoshone : UTE
48
Companion of true : TRIED
50
Violin for a virtuoso : AMATI
51
Swift specialty : SATIRE
54
People of Ghana : ASHANTI
56
Architectural disk : BEZANT
58
Leading lady : WOMANOFTHEYEAR
61
Kind of punch : ONETWO
62
Become a tar : GOTOSEA
63
Bone's basis : OSSEIN
64
White House name : RON
67
Jeanne or Cécile: Abbr. : STE
68
Angled structure : AFRAME
73
Where to spend naira : NIGERIA
76
Mining tool : TREPAN
77
Tough old bird : ROOSTERCOGBURN
84
___-run (baseball ploy) : HITAND
85
"The gang's ___!" : ALLHERE
86
Greek poet : HESIOD
88
___ di Bassetto (G.B.S. pen name) : CORNO
89
Nastier : VILER
90
Bee chaser : CEE
93
Cry at Pan's parties : EVOE
94
Chancel item : ALTAR
95
Gabor : EVA
96
Over sparkling water : ONGOLDENPOND
100
"Bicycle Thieves" director : DESICA
104
Old Irish capital : TARA
105
N-R connection : OPQ
106
Stout : ALE
109
July elopement : SUDDENLYLASTSUMMER
115
Eden teaser : ADAMSRIB
118
Last : OMEGA
119
Petty officer : YEOMAN
120
Lemon : DUD
121
Sight on Oxford Street : KERB
122
Did roadwork : PAVED
123
Expunge : ERASE
124
Beastly place : ZOO
125
Pintail duck : SMEE
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Rhonchus : SNORE
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Roman date : NONES
Down
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What inspired Watt : STEAM
2
Dance band : COMBO
3
Sphere : ORBIT
4
Farfetched : TALL
5
Cool cat : THELIONINWINTER
6
Ornament : BEAD
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Sight at Como : ALPI
8
City in the Ukraine : LVOV
9
Lamour's apparel : SARONG
10
Starry : ASTRAL
11
From memory : BYHEART
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Gad : ROAM
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Correspond : AGREE
14
Colossus : GIANT
15
Yak : GAS
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Ma that says "maa" : EWE
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Began : LED
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Anchor : MOOR
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Hordeolum : STY
28
Conclusion : FINIS
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Mao associate : CHOU
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Havana casualty: 1898 : MAINE
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She had a Hobby : OVETA
36
Lowest point : NADIR
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Change significantly : MUTATE
38
Part of a palindrome : ISAW
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Org. established in 1949 : NATO
40
Forbidding : GRIM
41
"Crazy Jane" poet : YEATS
43
Forbidden : TABOO
44
Straws in the wind : OMENS
45
Brings down the house : RAZES
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Antony's flame : THEAFRICANQUEEN
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Bolger : RAY
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Joplin creation : RAG
53
Seth's son : ENOS
55
Dress style : SHEATH
57
More fashionable : TONIER
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Polo Grounds hero : OTT
60
Sulla, to Marius : FOE
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Type of room, for short : REC
65
Acapulco gold : ORO
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Almost : NIGH
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Narrated anew : RETOLD
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Estranged : APART
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Windfall : MANNA
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Witch of ___ : ENDOR
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José or Buddy : GRECO
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Vigoda : ABE
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Blathered : RAVED
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Oil source : OLIVE
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Earthenware jars : OLLAS
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Haggard's Ayesha : SHE
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Worn : USED
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Cleave : RIVE
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Eight bells : NOON
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Type of magazine : DEPOT
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Raid site: 1976 : ENTEBBE
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Actor Richard : EGAN
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Lowest decks : ORLOPS
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Secular : LAYMAN
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Examination: Comb. form : OPSY
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Doctrine : ISM
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Cods' kin : CUSKS
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Relevantly : ADREM
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Capital of Jordan : AMMAN
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Hire : LEASE
108
Pelagic predators : ERNES
110
Extreme : DIRE
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Counterclockwise : LEVO
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Dyer's device : AGER
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Radio's "Vic and ___" : SADE
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Subject of Katz's "Days of Wrath" : MORO
115
Cutting tool : ADZ
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Pair : DUO
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Stir : ADO

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