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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

New York Times, Saturday, November 12, 1977

17-Down : Branches

Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 301 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,318
Across
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Carry lightly through the air : WAFT
5
Nap : DOZE
9
Warm-water fish : SCAD
13
Cupid, in art : AMOR
14
Finely ground quartz or flint : SILEX
15
Garb for Lucullus : TOGA
16
Part of a bureaucracy : DEPARTMENT
18
Organic compound : ENOL
19
Catches : ENSNARES
20
Color for William : ORANGE
22
Not big, to Burns : SMA
23
Male mallard : DRAKE
24
Kinship : PROPINQUITY
29
Kind of int. : CPD
32
"My ___," Straus song : HERO
33
Sight at Provincetown : DUNE
34
Peter in re pumpkins : EATER
36
North Caucasian language : AVAR
37
Denominations : SECTS
39
Golconda : MINE
40
Paving stones : SETTS
42
Guideway in a knitting machine : SLEY
43
Mouth: Sp. : BOCA
44
Ike's command in W.W. II : ETO
45
Pollution-control device : AFTERBURNER
48
Raises : REARS
50
Mil. address : APO
51
Eldest Karamazov : DMITRI
53
Verse that spells words vertically : ACROSTIC
58
Sumptuous : RICH
59
Large flowerpot : JARDINIERE
61
Dies ___ : IRAE
62
Olfactology topics : ODORS
63
Bitter drug : ALOE
64
Buoy attachment : BELL
65
Striplings : LADS
66
Telescope part : LENS
Down
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___ in (attack) : WADE
2
Church "corner" : AMEN
3
Toffs : FOPS
4
Enrapture : TRANSPORT
5
Mint product : DIME
6
Corrida cheers : OLES
7
Mahayana movement : ZEN
8
Wrest : EXTORT
9
Kind of knife : STEAK
10
"The French ___" : CONNECTION
11
Highly excited : AGOG
12
Hill's counterpart : DALE
14
Tresses : STRANDS
17
Branches : RAMI
21
Martha from Butte : RAYE
23
Calorie counter : DIETER
24
Aspect : PHASE
25
Face with masonry : REVET
26
Adjective for Bryan : ORATORICAL
27
Pursuits of knights-errant : QUESTS
28
Cry in conceding defeat : UNCLE
30
Part of L.S.D. : PENCE
31
Dismal, to Keats : DREAR
35
Very delicious or fragrant : AMBROSIAL
38
Ancient city, noted for wealth and luxury : SYBARIS
41
European coal basin : SAAR
46
Kidney bean of the Southwest : FRIJOL
47
Second word of a fairy tale : UPON
49
Merman or Kennedy : ETHEL
51
Small amount : DRIB
52
Bog : MIRE
53
Grandson of Jacob : AROD
54
Naval officers: Abbr. : CDRS
55
Distant: Prefix : TELE
56
Mangle : IRON
57
So-so grades : CEES
60
"Tobacco Road" character : ADA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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