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Virginia Butler
Virginia Butler

New York Times, Saturday, February 13, 1982

Author:
Virginia Butler
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { C F K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Virginia Butler has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,785
Across
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Sweep of a scythe : SWATH
6
Jupiter and Saturn, e.g. : ORBS
10
Insect in the post-larval stage : PUPA
14
Johnny Mercer's dream girl : LAURA
15
Niggardly : NEAR
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Straight ___ arrow : ASAN
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Annunciation figure : ANGEL
18
Clubs, e.g. : MINORSUIT
20
" ... should ___ not heard" : BESEENAND
22
Oklahoma Amerind : OSAGE
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What all planners must have : AIMS
24
Crossed swords, perhaps : DUELED
25
Veiled, elderly woman, in art : STANNE
28
Molded clay : PUG
29
Bob, for one : HAIRDO
30
Prepares an oven before baking : PREHEATS
35
Deity for Meccans : ALLAH
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Rob Peter to ___ Paul : PAY
37
Dismay : APPAL
38
Wearing a pith hat : HELMETED
40
Scornful; cynical : SNEERY
41
A tense for Homer: Abbr. : AOR
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Not extreme : MODEST
43
Recall : MEMORY
47
What to show an unwanted visitor : DOOR
48
Watchful : ALERT
49
Dutch seaport : ROTTERDAM
54
Bakery offering : JELLYROLL
56
Where the eagle has landed : AERIE
57
Cyma reversa : OGEE
58
Mignon follower : ETTE
59
Scoria : DROSS
60
Male gypsies : RYES
61
Nosegay : POSY
62
Cries out sharply : YIPES
Down
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Thick slice : SLAB
2
Dwindle : WANE
3
Summer mos. : AUGS
4
Horseradish of E. Indies : TREE
5
Vigorous : HALEANDHEARTY
6
"Put the Blame ___" : ONMAME
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Saddlers' products : REINS
8
Goodman group : BAND
9
Sign for which playwrights pine : SRO
10
Like spats : PASSE
11
Customary : USUAL
12
Hall of Fame pitcher : PAIGE
13
Chipped in one's chip : ANTED
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Crude but effective : ROUGHANDREADY
21
Tenor Martini : NINO
24
Fair share : DUE
25
Objective of many a plug : SALE
26
Box for bucks : TILL
27
Saroyan hero : ARAM
28
Detach by leverage : PRY
29
In one word, "I told you so!" : HAH
30
Layer on a football player : PAD
31
Inventor of a sign language : EPEE
32
What an epigone does : APES
33
Cutting : TART
34
Shakespearean tinker : SLY
36
___ capita : PER
39
Kazoo, for one : TOY
40
Lampblack : SOOT
42
Heterogeneous : MOTLEY
43
Shaw's Barbara : MAJOR
44
Gray's brought him praise : ELEGY
45
Homophone for Malay : MELEE
46
Heraldic fillets : ORLES
47
Numbskulls : DOLTS
49
Prefix with beater : ROTO
50
Soprano Grist : RERI
51
Stage curtain : DROP
52
Comfortable, in Cannes : AISE
53
G.I. refectory : MESS
55
What a KO artist earns : REP

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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