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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Friday, July 31, 1981

36-Down : Shut up hermetically

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,588
Across
1
Maturing agent : AGER
5
Like London in 1666 : AFIRE
10
Columnist's line : ITEM
14
Netman Nastase : ILIE
15
Limited in space : LOCAL
16
Soft leather : NAPA
17
Opera by Kienzl: 1898 : DONQUIXOTE
19
Stew : SNIT
20
Windmill arm : AWE
21
"It might have ___" : BEEN
22
Boxers' embrace : CLINCH
24
Affectionate : FOND
25
Squirrel away : STASH
26
Locale for J.R. Ewing : DALLAS
29
Assert to be true : MAINTAIN
32
Expect : AWAIT
33
Tadpole, for one : LARVA
34
Caucho : ULE
35
Steam-engine inventor : WATT
36
Burn superficially : SINGE
37
Large land mass : ASIA
38
Commit a boo-boo : ERR
39
Discontinue : CEASE
40
Drudgery : SWEAT
41
Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose is one : SEAPLANE
43
Excoriate : SCORCH
44
Member of a string quartet : VIOLA
45
Biblical king : SAUL
46
Kind of benefit : FRINGE
48
Kind of bridge : TOLL
49
Good buddy : PAL
52
Desired role : LEAD
53
Opera by Wagner: 1856 : DIEWALKURE
56
Architectural pier : ANTA
57
Frittered time away : IDLED
58
Large lake : ERIE
59
Rend : TEAR
60
Comes close : NEARS
61
Twelve moons : YEAR
Down
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Opera by Verdi: 1871 : AIDA
2
Word before worm : GLOW
3
German article : EINE
4
Necessary: Abbr. : REQ
5
Noncitizens : ALIENS
6
Outwitted : FOXED
7
Graven image : ICON
8
Norway ___ : RAT
9
Choice on campus : ELECTIVE
10
Assert emphatically : INSIST
11
Another opera by Wagner: 1845 : TANNHAUSER
12
Grand in scope : EPIC
13
School subj. : MATH
18
German naval weapon : UBOAT
23
One of the Woods : LANA
24
Dart : FLIT
25
Looey's aide : SARGE
26
Veep under Coolidge : DAWES
27
Not in the dark : AWARE
28
Another opera by Verdi: 1853 : LATRAVIATA
29
Parsonage : MANSE
30
Sacro follower : ILIAC
31
Below, to Byron : NEATH
33
Tropical climber : LIANA
36
Shut up hermetically : SEALEDIN
37
Military misdemeanor : AWOL
39
Choke up : CLOG
40
Kind of rowboat : SCULL
42
Greek odist : PINDAR
43
Dinner greens : SALADS
45
Farmer, at times : SOWER
46
Below the true pitch : FLAT
47
Poet Sully Prudhomme (1901 Nobelist) : RENE
48
Weblike tissue : TELA
49
Unadulterated : PURE
50
Opera highlight : ARIA
51
Eye wickedly : LEER
54
Edible fish : IDE
55
Essential : KEY

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

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