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Kathryn Righter
Kathryn Righter

New York Times, Tuesday, October 4, 1977

Author:
Kathryn Righter
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F Q Z }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 32.8 Grid has duplicate clues.
Kathryn Righter has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,279
Across
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It must go on : SHOW
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Statue of Liberty area closed to visitors : TORCH
10
Hill's partner : DALE
14
Roof edge : EAVE
15
Napoleon in 1814–15 : EXILE
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Golfer's niblick : IRON
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Kind of school, for short : PREP
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Making all stops : LOCAL
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Prefix meaning equal : PARI
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Harangue : TIRADE
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Dismayed : APPALLED
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Self-righteous person : PRIG
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Kind of mania : EGO
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Name in the news : CARTER
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Mournful complaint : JEREMIAD
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Prefix with corn and form : UNI
34
Language of 20,000,000 in India : TAMIL
36
Kipling's Mr. Deever : DANNY
37
Blue or green shade : BICE
39
Rich Little is one : MIMIC
41
South American monkey : TITI
42
Separate articles : ITEMS
44
Fashionable : SMART
46
Calendar abbr. : MON
47
Kind of insurance : CASUALTY
49
Out to lunch : EATING
51
George Sand's "Elle et ___" : LUI
52
Skewer : SPIT
53
Like certain Detroit lemons : RECALLED
58
Occult doctrine : CABALA
61
"Like ___ out of Hell" : ABAT
62
Positive terminal of a battery : ANODE
64
Mountain goat : IBEX
65
Where vessels nestle : COVE
66
City on the Panama Canal : COLON
67
Too : ALSO
68
Largo, West et al. : KEYS
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Steinbeck's "___ Thursday" : SWEET
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Viewed : SEEN
Down
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Irish clan : SEPT
2
Mata ___ : HARI
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Stings the customer : OVERPRICES
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"Maid of Athens, ere ___ ... ": Byron : WEPART
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"No mon no fun your son," e.g. : TELEGRAM
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Chemical prefix : OXO
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Costa ___ : RICA
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Applaud : CLAP
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Assistant : HELPER
10
Metternich was one : DIPLOMAT
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Sea east of the Caspian : ARAL
12
Learning : LORE
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Wife of Sir Geraint : ENID
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Regular fare : DIET
23
Matured : AGED
26
Three-dimensional : CUBIC
27
Actress Ekberg : ANITA
28
Name in the news : JIMMY
29
Lamb's cover-up : ELIA
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Impossible to duplicate : INIMITABLE
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Chekhov : ANTON
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Faulkner's "As I Lay ___" : DYING
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Fine spray : MIST
38
Tries to equal : EMULATES
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Moon's shape in first or last quarter : CRESCENT
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He died fighting Philistines : SAUL
45
Polynesian fabric : TAPA
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Bloomers in Whitman's dooryard : LILACS
50
Shinbones : TIBIAS
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Triangle in a poolroom : RACK
54
Central American tree : EBOE
55
Guinea pig : CAVY
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" ... were Paradise ___" : ENOW
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An also-ran in 1976 : DOLE
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___ majesty : LESE
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Neuron appendage : AXON
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Bambi's mother : DOE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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