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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Tuesday, March 23, 1982

8-Down : Flowering vines

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,823
Across
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Moves restlessly : GADS
5
Fish armor : SCALE
10
Meek one : LAMB
14
Others, to Octavius : ALII
15
Site of the Rodin Museum : PARIS
16
Persian poet : OMAR
17
Buck heroine : OLAN
18
Tapestry : ARRAS
19
Not any : NONE
20
Paper money: Slang : LONGGREEN
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Showy bird : EGRET
23
Cowpoke's concern : STEER
24
Collar stiffener : STARCH
26
Inlets : RIAS
28
Multiple fruit : SOROSIS
32
Bulldoze : COW
35
Govt. agents : TMEN
37
Dawn : AURORA
38
Spoken : ORAL
40
Last Trojan king : PRIAM
42
Christmas carol : NOEL
43
Get to be : BECOME
45
Roman commoner : PLEB
47
Monogram of the author of "The Hollow Men" : TSE
48
Oklahomans : SOONERS
50
Edible fish : IDES
52
Long-run musical : GREASE
54
Military vacation : LEAVE
58
Stage : PHASE
61
Like Methuselah : LONGLIVED
63
Anagram for ache : EACH
64
The cheekbone : MALAR
65
Founder of the Fathers of Oratory : NERI
66
Countertenor : ALTO
67
Famed fiddle name : AMATI
68
Whilom : ERST
69
Put to trial : TEST
70
Cabled : WIRED
71
Fr. holy ones : STES
Down
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British prisons : GAOLS
2
Apportion : ALLOT
3
Woody's co-star, frequently : DIANE
4
Judy Collins is one : SINGER
5
Box : SPAR
6
Pet's pal : CARESSER
7
Court order: Fr. : ARRET
8
Flowering vines : LIANAS
9
Sigmoid letter : ESS
10
U. of Texas athlete : LONGHORN
11
All-conqueror, Roman style : AMOR
12
Horse's neck growth : MANE
13
Author Harte : BRET
21
Courage : GRIT
22
Tan color : ECRU
25
Vagabondized : ROAMED
27
Electrical unit : AMPERE
29
Carbon particles : SOOT
30
Angers : IRES
31
Auction : SALE
32
Male swans : COBS
33
Mountain: Comb. form : OREO
34
Home of the Baylor Bears : WACO
36
Short snort : NIP
39
Surprising winner at Santa Anita : LONGSHOT
41
Estrange : ALIENATE
44
"Lady of the ___": Wordsworth : MERE
46
Kind of boy or buoy : BELL
49
Spicy meat : SALAMI
51
Gear for codders : SEINES
53
Kind of energy : SOLAR
55
Fend off : AVERT
56
Biblical sentence : VERSE
57
Corrects copy : EDITS
58
Fuel for Flaherty : PEAT
59
Hearty's partner : HALE
60
Stein's "Four Saints in Three ___" : ACTS
62
Grating : GRID
64
Symbol of voracity : MAW

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