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Margaret Rigby
Margaret Rigby

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New York Times, Sunday, August 17, 1980

6-Down : Personnel official

Author:
Margaret Rigby
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 82, Avg Word Len: 5.13, Missing: { Q }, Scrabble score: 557 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 101, Cheaters: 16, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Margaret Rigby has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,240
Across
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Nobelist Hahn : OTTO
5
Chick chaser : SHOO
9
The Beehive State : UTAH
13
Louis from Louisiana : PRIMA
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These are flaky : SOAPCHIPS
20
Somewhat, in music : POCO
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He wrote "La Vie de Jésus": 1863 : RENAN
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Jeans' partners : TEESHIRTS
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U.S. emblem : SPREADEAGLE
26
Metric unit : ARE
27
Of a piece : ALIKE
29
King of Mass. : GOV
30
___ gestae : RES
31
Dock : BOB
34
Like a chit : PERT
36
Biblical priest : ELI
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Type of verse : ANAPEST
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Play the card : AMUSE
41
Despot : AUTOCRAT
45
Aegean island : IOS
46
Event on June 17, 1775 : BATTLEOFBUNKERHILL
50
Tapir : ANTA
51
Citole and trichord : LUTES
52
Prep sch. : ACAD
53
Cay or holm : ISLE
57
Wading bird : EGRET
59
Electrical wave: Prefix : ONDA
61
Scotch fiddles : ITCHES
63
Wife of le roi : LAREINE
65
Epic in 12 books : AENEID
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Persons easily swayed : REEDS
68
Rochet's relative : ALB
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Preeminently : PAREXCELLENCE
73
Poet's palindrome : ERE
74
Fusty : STALE
76
Trinacria, today : SICILY
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Peak in NW Wash. : OLYMPUS
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Arty parties : SALONS
81
Character on a staff : CLEF
82
Foundation : BASIS
83
Suburb SE of Paris : ORLY
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Romance lang. : ITAL
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Harry or Henry : JAMES
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You, to a Quaker : THEE
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The bends, to caisson workers : OCCUPATIONALHAZARD
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U.N. labor body : ILO
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Title of honor : SERENITY
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Hair conditioner : RINSE
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Oscar and family : LEVANTS
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Enzyme : ASE
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Grand ___ : SLAM
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Venturi : KEN
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Lumber splitter : AXE
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By way of : VIA
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Flavoring for ouzo : ANISE
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Lizard, also called fringefoot : UMA
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Classifies : PIGEONHOLES
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Color shade : NILEGREEN
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Pitiless : STONY
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Actuality : FACT
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Race-track pavilion : CLUBHOUSE
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Kefauver : ESTES
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Refuges : ARKS
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Maxwell or Schiaparelli : ELSA
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Sketched : DREW
Down
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East, in Essen : OST
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Hallux or dactyl : TOE
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Menlo Park monogram : TAE
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Rhea, to Romans : OPS
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Talia from N.Y.C. : SHIRE
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Personnel official : HIRER
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Choose : OPT
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Pelion's supporter : OSSA
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Greek vowel : UPSILON
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First sergeant : TOPKICK
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Area unit : ACRE
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Gardener's tool : HOE
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Be successful : PREVAIL
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Pacific herb : REA
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"Odalisque" painter: 1814 : INGRES
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Cob and buck : MALES
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"___ of robins ... " : ANEST
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Oratory : CHAPEL
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Patron saint of Catania : AGATHA
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Coach Shula : DON
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"___ pray" : LETUS
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Spongy cake : BABA
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Where Matrah is : OMAN
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Ruddy duck : BUTTERBALL
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President who weighed over 300 pounds : TAFT
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Barney Miller's colleagues : POLICE
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The world, to Jaques : STAGE
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Japanese seaport : UBE
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Without hesitation : READILY
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Penny ___ : ARCADE
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Queen of Italy in 1900 : ELENA
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External : OUTER
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Ides, in Roma : IDI
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Rope-shortening knot : SHEEPSHANK
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___-Rollin, French politician: 1807-74 : LEDRU
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Curvy letters : ESSES
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Mature : RIPEN
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"___ by land" : ONEIF
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Mistress Quickly : NELL
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These beat deuces : TREYS
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Cow catcher : LASSO
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Place for a reredos : ALTAR
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Vein, nerve or feather : AXILLAR
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"Behold!" to Brutus : ECCE
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Houdini feat : ESCAPE
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Inventor of dynamite : NOBEL
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Affray : CLASH
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St. Ignatius of ___ : LOYOLA
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Gaynor from Chicago : MITZI
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Incite to attack : SIC
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Asian silkworm : TUSSAH
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Parisians' pleasures : JOIES
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Hill builder : ANT
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The "Say Hey Kid" : MAYS
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Gaelic language : ERSE
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London hero : EDEN
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Escorts : CONVOYS
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Township in NE N.J. : TEANECK
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Demands firmly : INSISTS
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Former county of Northern Ireland : ARMAGH
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"___ Sixpence" : IVEGOT
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Small error : LAPSE
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Departures : EXITS
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Lizzie's predecessor : TIN
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Pips or pippins : LULUS
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Protozoan : AMEBA
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Opposite of apterous : ALAR
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Ending for differ or refer : ENCE
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Suffix for ethyl : ENE
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Birds ___ feather : OFA
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"___ Be Seeing You": 1938 : ILL
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Curl or Funseth : ROD
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Cont. : EUR
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Compass pt. : ESE
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Just out : NEW

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 11 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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