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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

New York Times, Thursday, May 7, 1981

44-Down : Aide for Holmes

Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.84, Missing: { B J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, 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. 11,503
Across
1
Line of cliffs : SCARP
6
Greek letter : ETA
9
Nitwits : SAPS
13
Goof : ERROR
14
Terrible czar : IVAN
15
Late queen of Jordan : ALIA
16
Division of a poem : CANTO
17
Heaviest U.S. President : TAFT
18
Depend : RELY
19
Opulence : WEALTH
21
Haberdasher's display : FEDORAS
23
Angry : IRATE
25
Pop song lead-in : INTRO
26
Heady : INTOXICATING
31
What to show an unwanted visitor : DOOR
32
Hat made from jipijapa leaves : PANAMA
33
Id's cousin : EGO
36
Songlike : ARIOSO
38
Elementary textbook : PRIMER
40
Pharmacist's word for salt : SAL
41
Delight : PLEASE
45
Actress Lollobrigida : GINA
46
Headwaiter : MAITREDHOTEL
48
John Jacob ___ : ASTOR
51
Letters in Einstein's famous formula : EMCEE
52
Butcherbirds : SHRIKES
54
Abhorrent : ODIOUS
58
Duo : PAIR
59
National emblem of Great Britain : LION
61
Termagant; virago : SHREW
63
Fencing item : EPEE
64
Praise : LAUD
65
Jeweled headdress : TIARA
66
Headland : NESS
67
Termite : ANT
68
Destroyer installation : SONAR
Down
1
Dry, as wine : SEC
2
Bird's crop : CRAW
3
"Abel" composer : ARNE
4
Roster : ROTA
5
Verbose : PROLIX
6
Stowe heroine : EVA
7
Fine, rather stiff fabric : TAFFETA
8
Pay up : ANTE
9
Malay garment : SARONG
10
On the qui vive : ALERT
11
Hairy : PILAR
12
Dictum : SAYSO
14
Home of Odysseus : ITHACA
20
City in Libya or Lebanon : TRIPOLI
22
Middle Eastern monetary unit : DINAR
24
Shoe color : TAN
26
A Cantor and an Eisenhower : IDAS
27
Ibsen heroine : NORA
28
Serf's lot : TOIL
29
Gold, in Genova : ORO
30
Hindered : IMPEDED
33
Give off : EMIT
34
Hereditary factor : GENE
35
Nuncupative : ORAL
37
Kind of plug : SPARK
39
"But ___ on forever": Tennyson : IGO
42
Recurring annually : ETESIAN
43
Firth : ARM
44
Aide for Holmes : SECOND
46
Watered-silk fabrics : MOIRES
47
Stickups : HEISTS
48
Colorado resort : ASPEN
49
Form : SHAPE
50
Attempts : TRIES
53
Singer Fitzgerald : ELLA
55
One of Cairo's rivers : OHIO
56
Monitor lizard : URAN
57
Antibodies : SERA
60
Umpire's call : OUT
62
Whitman's "The Real ___" : WAR

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

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