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Kay Sullivan
Kay Sullivan

New York Times, Saturday, June 12, 1982

2-Down : Tied flies

Author:
Kay Sullivan
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Kay Sullivan has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,904
Across
1
Stele : SLAB
5
Twilled silk fabric : SURAH
10
In re : ASTO
14
Pacific island dance : HULA
15
___ Gay : ENOLA
16
Not barefoot : SHOD
17
Sevareid : ERIC
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Edwin Newman's "A ___ Tongue" : CIVIL
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One and only : SOLE
20
Bernard Berenson was one : AESTHETE
22
Marguerite, e.g. : FLOWER
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Swaggered : STRODE
25
Hamlet of former times : THORP
26
One of the Brit. Isles : IRE
27
South Slavic language : CROATIAN
30
Highway to Fairbanks : ALCAN
33
Obscure : CLOUD
34
Kind of trip : EGO
35
Diving bird : LOON
36
Farina : FLOUR
37
James M. Barrie, e.g. : SCOT
38
Dockers' org. : ILA
39
New England poet : FROST
40
Oft-cited last letteer : OMEGA
41
Berlin song of the 20's : ALLALONE
43
Pair : DUO
44
Ski resort : STOWE
45
Bed canopy : TESTER
48
Subway sign : UPTOWN
50
Roman temple : PANTHEON
52
Kind of light : NEON
53
Highly prized Japanese porcelain : IMARI
55
Hence : ERGO
56
Antithesis of a hawk : DOVE
57
Button material : NACRE
58
It means nothing to a Frenchman : RIEN
59
Exceptional person : ONER
60
Lady Jane and Zane : GREYS
61
Withered : SERE
Down
1
Where George Foster plays : SHEA
2
Tied flies : LURES
3
Tilted, as a tanker : ALIST
4
Two-humped camel : BACTRIAN
5
Break up an alliance, in a way : SECEDE
6
Debs's exhortation : UNITE
7
Wander aimlessly : ROVE
8
Ring master, once : ALI
9
Sitcom span : HALFHOUR
10
Classify : ASSORT
11
Something for a vitrine : SHOWPIECE
12
Painted tinware : TOLE
13
River between Poland and E. Germany : ODER
21
Sharp peak : HORN
23
Burden : LOAD
25
"The ___," Schubert quintet : TROUT
27
Stuffy : CLOSE
28
Eager : AGOG
29
"___ creature ... " : NOTA
30
Inter ___ : ALIA
31
Droop : LOLL
32
Potbelly that needs constant feeding : COALSTOVE
33
Produce by parthenogenesis : CLONE
36
Not in a merry mood : FROWNING
37
Tom or Dick, but not Harry : SMOTHERS
39
Scapa or cash : FLOW
40
Boot : OUST
42
His trespasses may be forgiven : ATONER
43
Gainsays : DENIES
45
Linger : TARRY
46
Weird : EERIE
47
Radio code word : ROGER
48
Ravel : UNDO
49
Foot soldier in India : PEON
50
Gait : PACE
51
" ... then there were ___" : NONE
54
Pisces-Aries mo. : MAR

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