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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

New York Times, Saturday, April 18, 1981

11-Down : Feared

Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 6, XRef: 0
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,484
Across
1
Units of angular measurement : RADIANS
8
Sites of some venditions : YARDS
13
Tale told by an oldster : ANECDOTE
15
Prepares for action : ALERTS
17
Tale of woe : JEREMIAD
18
Battologize : REPEAT
19
Nice friend : AMI
20
Kind of door or scale : SLIDING
22
Japanese woman diver : AMA
23
Edna Best's hometown : HOVE
25
Monkey wrench : SNAG
26
Take ___ view of : ADIM
27
Weasel : SNEAK
29
Epithet used by H.S.T. : SOB
31
Part of the handwriting on the wall : MENE
32
Ancient ascetic : ESSENE
35
Islamic month : RAMADAN
37
Press : IRON
38
Port on the Firth of Lorne : OBAN
39
Type of butterfly : EMPEROR
42
Certain bulbs : TULIPS
45
Golf scores : PARS
46
___ de plume : NOM
48
Siouan Indians : OTOES
50
Part of a monogram: Abbr. : INIT
51
A Scandinavian : LAPP
54
Chief : ARCH
55
Trippet : CAM
56
Shoots from stems of plants : TILLERS
59
Refrain syllable : TRA
60
Marbles : AGATES
62
Made to order : TAILORED
64
Devastating : LETHAL
65
Tailless : ACAUDATE
66
Inventor of farm machines : DEERE
67
Surrounded : EMBAYED
Down
1
Indian rulers : RAJAHS
2
Windflower : ANEMONE
3
Infers : DERIVES
4
Ferber's "___ Palace" : ICE
5
U.S.N. officers : ADMS
6
Fibers combed from wool : NOILS
7
Blot : STAIN
8
Weaver's purchase : YARN
9
Shake ___ (hie) : ALEG
10
Corded fabric : REP
11
Feared : DREADED
12
Miler's sine qua non : STAMINA
14
Icelandic literary works : EDDAS
16
Long part of a spider plant : STAMEN
21
Luzon native : IGOROT
24
" ... those move ___ who have learn'd to dance": Pope : EASIEST
26
Deadly fungus : AMANITA
28
Dramatist or drama critic : KERR
30
Hindu gentleman : BABU
33
High point : NOON
34
Place on a list : ENROLL
36
Saint-___, French port : MALO
39
Heroic : EPICAL
40
Emulated Ralph Houk : MANAGED
41
Archbishop : PRIMATE
43
Depict : PORTRAY
44
Conceal : SECRETE
47
Mediterranean island : MALTA
49
Like Unter den Linden : SHADED
52
What "shalom" means : PEACE
53
Father of Troilus : PRIAM
56
Something to shed : TEAR
57
Cay : ISLE
58
Slightly twisted wool : SLUB
61
Brew in Brest : THE
63
Harem room : ODA

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