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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Wednesday, April 2, 1986

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 22.5
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,294
Across
1
Court minutes : ACTA
5
L.A. round-baller : LAKER
10
Role : PART
14
Surround : GIRD
15
Like a grandam : ANILE
16
Plant of the lily family : ALOE
17
Amos and Andy : OTISANDWILLIAMS
20
Wool cluster : NEP
21
Mata ___ : HARI
22
Something of value : ASSET
23
Cincinnati Rose : PETE
24
Sunken fence : HAHA
26
Flower cluster : RACEME
29
Bore, to boar : HOMONYM
32
Locality : AREA
33
Angry fit : FUROR
34
Dawn goddess : EOS
36
Lucy and Ricky : MONROEANDNELSON
40
Dance movement : PAS
41
Belgian marble : RANCE
42
Air: Comb. form : AERI
43
Boxing encore : REMATCH
45
Hunting hound : BASSET
47
___-bitsy : ITSY
48
Trading center : MART
49
Anoint, old style : ANELE
52
Gross, in a way : EARN
53
Follower of Fannie or Ginnie : MAE
56
Jack and Jill : JONESANDIRELAND
60
Kabul V.I.P. : AMIR
61
French queen : REINE
62
Noisome : OLID
63
Beatty film : REDS
64
Tourist's stopover : MOTEL
65
Cunning : WILY
Down
1
Ancient contest : AGON
2
Quote : CITE
3
Stumble : TRIP
4
Classified sect. : ADS
5
Woolly : LANATE
6
Conductor Kostelanetz: 1901–80 : ANDRE
7
Flightless bird : KIWI
8
Yalie : ELI
9
Unit of reluctance : REL
10
Rossellini film: 1946 : PAISAN
11
Sad disyllable : ALAS
12
Where Sinclair Lewis died : ROME
13
This may be acidy : TEST
18
Attention getter : AHEM
19
Pakistani city : LAHORE
23
Fleshy fruit : PEAR
24
Multitude : HORDE
25
Egyptian sun god : AMON
26
Stadium passage : RAMP
27
Bellowing : AROAR
28
Perfume, in a way : CENSE
29
Premonition : HUNCH
30
Assents : YESES
31
Dudley or Henry : MOORE
33
Imagination : FANCY
35
Tizzy : SNIT
37
Uses a podium : ORATES
38
Greasy-spoon sign : EATS
39
Endure : LAST
44
Cram's competitors : MILERS
45
Cooper's creation : BARREL
46
"Rule, Britannia" composer : ARNE
48
Down East state : MAINE
49
Not quite shut : AJAR
50
"Caro ___," Verdi aria : NOME
51
Author Bagnold : ENID
52
Correct copy : EDIT
53
Bamako's land : MALI
54
Indigo : ANIL
55
Swirl : EDDY
57
Branch : ARM
58
Modernist : NEO
59
Soft : LOW

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

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