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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Friday, April 24, 1981

11-Down : "___ the living Present!": Longfellow

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K X Z }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,490
Across
1
Independently : APART
6
Grueling Oct. event in N.Y.C. : RACE
10
Phloem : BAST
14
Man's slipper : ROMEO
15
Overleap : OMIT
16
Mother of Iynx : ECHO
17
True : ALIGN
18
Part of the Big Apple : MANHATTAN
20
Garden in N.Y.C. : MADISONSQ
22
Riverside, e.g. : DRIVE
23
Muffles : MUTES
24
Will Rogers was one : SOONER
25
Miss in a harbor : LIBERTY
28
Carried away : RAPT
29
Expiates : ATONES
30
Parade ground in N.Y.C. : FIFTHAVE
34
Ferrer or Allen : MEL
35
Ariosti's "Amor ___ Nemici" : TRA
36
Be couchant : LIE
37
Longest street in the world : BROADWAY
41
Lane of fame in N.Y.C. : MAIDEN
44
Urban polluter : SOOT
45
Lithe and slender : WILLOWY
46
Prometheus at Rockefeller Center : STATUE
49
A Beatle : RINGO
50
Pulsate : THROB
51
"They Didn't ___," old song : BELIEVEME
55
Went in again : REENTERED
57
Duke of Cornwall's wife : REGAN
58
"Judith" composer : ARNE
59
Part of St. Patrick's : NAVE
60
Adjective for argon : INERT
61
Ammo for some shooters : PEAS
62
Tom the tailor of Coventry : EYER
63
Mitchell or Lew : AYRES
Down
1
Ancient Syria : ARAM
2
Contemporary of Theda : POLA
3
During : AMID
4
Scarsdale export : REGIMEN
5
Clipping of a sort : TONSURE
6
Presidential hopeful in 1968 : ROMNEY
7
"Paris is well worth ___": Henri IV : AMASS
8
French quintet : CINQ
9
Numerical suffix : ETH
10
Promise in marriage : BETROTH
11
"___ the living Present!": Longfellow : ACTIN
12
Figaro's specialty : SHAVE
13
Employee in a paint plant : TONER
19
Espouse : ADOPT
21
Mel and Ed of baseball : OTTS
24
Hans M. Mark's D.C. post: 1979 : SAF
25
Writer Mary Ann : LAMB
26
Place for a chariot : ITER
27
Knife or punch : BOLO
28
Inlet : RIA
30
Fingerlings : FRY
31
Actor Ray : ALDO
32
Trade Center attraction : VIEW
33
Word in a counting game : EENY
35
Use a shuttle : TAT
38
"Within ___ throw ... ": Cervantes : ASTONES
39
Uncertainty : DOUBT
40
Misery : WOE
41
Skirt length : MINI
42
Loser to U.S. in 1815 : ALGERIA
43
Big Apple slogan : ILOVENY
45
He wrote "The Merchant of Yonkers" : WILDER
46
Subway standee's stabilizer : STRAP
47
Voila! : THERE
48
See 20 Across : ARENA
49
Pass rope through a hole : REEVE
51
Creator of the first animated cartoon : BRAY
52
Bavarian river : EGER
53
Genuine Risk's future status : MARE
54
Tolkien's tree shepherds : ENTS
56
Dir. from Pittsburgh to N.Y.C. : ENE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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