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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Friday, October 9, 1981

26-Down : West Indian volcano

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 2
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,658
Across
1
Inverness is one : CAPE
5
Kind of strip : COMIC
10
Struck, old style : SMIT
14
Across the plate : OVER
15
Seed : OVULE
16
River in a canine's name : AIRE
17
Gardner's lawyer-detective : PERRYMASON
19
Caesar's etymological cousin : TSAR
20
Subject of a book by Adelaide Bry: 1976 : EST
21
Anguineous creatures : EELS
22
Not so prolix : TERSER
24
Sometime partners of stars : BARS
25
First name of the 18th U.S. President : HIRAM
26
Identity documents : PAPERS
29
Hammett private eye : SAMSPADE
32
With 40 Across, a patriot : ETHAN
33
Visorless cap : BERET
34
Punty : ROD
35
Cut of meat : LOIN
36
Passages for gas, steam, etc. : PORTS
37
Chevet : APSE
38
Form for Frank Lloyd Wright : ELL
39
Plods, as through mud : SLOGS
40
See 32 Across : ALLEN
41
Stretch : ELONGATE
43
Gripping tool : PLIERS
44
Forage plant : VETCH
45
Licorice or parsnip : ROOT
46
Laud : PRAISE
48
One of Adam's boys : SETH
49
Hood's quaff : ALE
52
___ Kong : HONG
53
Spillane's slugging shamus : MIKEHAMMER
56
Setting for a gem : OUCH
57
Heed Revere's warning : ARISE
58
Home of the Hawks : OMNI
59
Items in Trevino's bag : TEES
60
Slender candle : TAPER
61
Blessing : BOON
Down
1
Clerical mantle : COPE
2
Some are rarae : AVES
3
Flibberti-gibbety : PERT
4
Commit a blooper : ERR
5
Promising ones : COMERS
6
Athletic fields : OVALS
7
Put into disorder : MUSS
8
Intl. labor group : ILO
9
Small French coins : CENTIMES
10
Petty ruler : SATRAP
11
Christie's gumshoe : MISSMARPLE
12
Of wrath: Lat. : IRAE
13
HI before 1959 : TERR
18
Pine for : YEARN
23
Formerly, formerly : ERST
24
One of the astronauts : BEAN
25
Male red deer : HARTS
26
West Indian volcano : PELEE
27
Coral island : ATOLL
28
Van Dine's suave sleuth : PHILOVANCE
29
Twilled fabric : SERGE
30
Medicine applicator : DOSER
31
Beautiful areas : EDENS
33
Salvation Army founder : BOOTH
36
Dining-table doily : PLACEMAT
37
Finished a flight : ALIT
39
NCO's : SGTS
40
Love, in Lanai : ALOHA
42
Whinnies : NEIGHS
43
Commotion : POTHER
45
A.F.B. in Texas : REESE
46
Unit of illumination : PHOT
47
Libertine : ROUE
48
Between hop and jump : SKIP
49
Bullets and bombs, for short : AMMO
50
Light, gauzy fabric : LENO
51
Milesian's land : ERIN
54
A Gershwin : IRA
55
Kind of scene : MOB

Answer summary:
3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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