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Margetts
Margetts

New York Times, Tuesday, March 24, 1981

Author:
Margetts
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J K Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Grid flow: 21.1
Margetts has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,459
Across
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Horned goddess : ISIS
5
A Rocky Mountain state : IDAHO
10
W.W. I fighter plane : SPAD
14
Plunge : DIVE
15
Kind of bridge suit : MINOR
16
Large mackerel : CERO
17
Abbr. after a list of names : ETAL
18
Samoan seaport (sometimes spelled sans n's) : PANGOPANGO
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"___, tekel ... " : MENEMENE
22
Zeal : ARDOR
23
Give up : CEDE
24
___ avis : RARA
26
African fly : TSETSE
29
Disease caused by lack of thiamine : BERIBERI
33
Other folk, in Caracas : OTROS
34
Track and field contests : MEETS
35
Deadpan Sparks : NED
36
Carson's predecessor : PAAR
37
Soup server : LADLE
38
French actor Jacques : TATI
39
Ending for violin or clarinet : IST
40
Places giving welcome relief : OASES
41
Prefix for scope or meter : MICRO
42
Chopped pickles in mustard sauce : CHOWCHOW
44
African drum : TOMTOM
45
Gain from effort : EARN
46
River to the North Sea : TYNE
47
Kind of change or potatoes : SMALL
50
South American hawk : CARACARA
54
City in SE Washington : WALLAWALLA
57
Son of Hera : ARES
58
Girlfriend, in Grasse : AMIE
59
Negatively charged atom : ANION
60
Monthly budget item : RENT
61
Wrestlers' equipment : MATS
62
Place to rule : ROOST
63
Baby's second word? : DADA
Down
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Relative of ditto : IDEM
2
Lot or spot : SITE
3
Terrible one : IVAN
4
Part of a radio set : SELECTOR
5
Obstruct : IMPEDE
6
Keaton or Cilento : DIANE
7
First queen of Great Britain : ANNE
8
Word with tie or wash : HOG
9
Mountain: Comb. form : ORO
10
Large beetle : SCARAB
11
Hang fire : PEND
12
Jason's barque : ARGO
13
O'Keeffe's "Farmhouse Window and ___" : DOOR
19
Helen's kidnapper : PARIS
21
Jumble : MESS
24
Scottish dances : REELS
25
Comic Johnson : ARTE
26
Subject matter : TOPIC
27
Bury the loot : STASH
28
Muse of poetry : ERATO
29
Dampen : BEDEW
30
Play charades : ENACT
31
Backward: Comb. form : RETRO
32
Language style : IDIOM
34
Bricklayer : MASON
37
Hollywood's Cowardly Lion : LAHR
38
Item to be punched : TIMECARD
40
City between Jacksonville and Tampa : OCALA
41
"___ Lisa" : MONA
43
Sumner or Orson : WELLES
44
Despot : TYRANT
46
Man of brass : TALOS
47
Emulated Spitz : SWAM
48
Baby's first word? : MAMA
49
Settled on terra firma : ALIT
50
Muse of history : CLIO
51
Sphere's surface, e.g. : AREA
52
Tear : REND
53
Fox terrier of film fame : ASTA
55
Hell, to Sherman : WAR
56
Twelve months, in Murcia : ANO

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2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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