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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

New York Times, Friday, February 13, 1981

21-Down : Machines for grinding

Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { H J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,420
Across
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Hook for landing fish : GAFF
5
Deadly African snake : MAMBA
10
"___ Rheingold" : DAS
13
Buck chaser : AROO
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Audibly : ALOUD
15
Scraps for Spots : ORTS
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Gaseous element : NEON
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Acquisitive female : GOLDDIGGER
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Source of great wealth : GOLDMINE
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George Eliot novel : ROMOLA
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Thin cut : SLICE
24
Legislative bodies : SENATES
25
Saint who founded the Ursuline order : ANGELA
27
Beginning : ONSET
28
Trevanian's "The ___ Sanction" : LOO
29
S.A. ruminants : LLAMAS
31
Egyptian moon goddess : ISIS
35
Liquid measures : GILLS
37
Needlefish : GAR
38
Setting : SCENE
39
Opera star Frances ___: 1883-1952 : ALDA
40
Check : ARREST
42
Russian village : MIR
43
The horrors of Gomorrah : VICES
45
See 3 Down : PYRITE
47
Cross; gibbet : POTENCE
50
Certain slippers : MULES
51
Indicate clearly : EVINCE
52
Garden flower : MARIGOLD
55
Locale for Puccini's "Girl" : GOLDENWEST
57
Medicinal plant : ALOE
58
Kind of arm or kick : SIDE
59
Concise : TERSE
60
Money in Torino : LIRA
61
German article : DER
62
Odin's Sleipnir : STEED
63
Kin of Shangri-La : EDEN
Down
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Work group : GANG
2
Pertaining to Mars: Comb. form : AREO
3
Iron sulfide with a deceiving color : FOOLSGOLD
4
Caress : FONDLE
5
Like Tamino's flute : MAGICAL
6
Solo : ALONE
7
Insectivorous mammal : MOLE
8
Potential flower : BUD
9
Add some ZIP to this : ADDRESS
10
Opinionated : DOGMATIC
11
Idiomatic vocabulary : ARGOT
12
Stone pillar : STELE
16
Sp. matrons : SRAS
19
"Last Days of Pompeii" heroine : IONE
21
Machines for grinding : MILLS
24
Kind of drum : SNARE
25
Aquatic plant : ALGA
26
Short fiber of silk or wool : NOIL
27
Bradley and Khayyám : OMARS
30
Coincide : AGREE
32
Like jelly or paste : SEMISOLID
33
Monogram element: Abbr. : INIT
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Dry : SERE
36
"The ___ Hill Mob," 1950 film : LAVENDER
38
Phonograph needles : STYLI
40
Brogues : ACCENTS
41
Gushed : SPURTED
44
Actor-director of early films : INCE
46
Delight : REGALE
47
Dowels : PEGS
48
Egg-shaped : OVOID
49
Diacritical mark : TILDE
50
Billiard shot : MASSE
52
Neither more nor less : MERE
53
Learning : LORE
54
Campus V.I.P. : DEAN
56
Fit for ducks : WET

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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