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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Wednesday, December 2, 1981

1-Down : Play in pinochle

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { K Q X }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,712
Across
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Goya painting in the Prado : MAJA
5
Fish or Peruvian money : SOLES
10
Cod, for example : CAPE
14
Its capital was Susa : ELAM
15
Fulcrum for an oar : THOLE
16
Lake in the U.S.S.R. : ARAL
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One of Judy's children : LIZA
18
Robert De Niro role : RAGINGBULL
20
Knockouts : DAZZLERS
22
Certain vessels : TRAMPS
23
The March King : SOUSA
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Disaccustom by degrees : WEAN
25
Pucci products : PRINTS
27
Baubles for milady : PENDANTS
31
Laundry cycle : RINSE
32
Collop : SLICE
33
Author Levin : IRA
34
Follow follower : ING
35
Cartoonist Briggs : CLARE
36
Antecedent of plus or com : NON
37
Ripen : AGE
38
Amalgamates : JOINS
39
Harmonize : BLEND
41
"We meet our ___ face to face": Belloc : MORNINGS
43
Cowboys' gear : RIATAS
44
Inner: Comb. form : ENTO
45
Film role played by Chief Thundercloud : TONTO
46
Hidden : ARCANE
49
Vindictive : VENGEFUL
52
Locale of a Vanessa Redgrave film : BEARISLAND
54
Tear apart : RIVE
55
Member of the House of Lords : EARL
56
Mud volcano : SALSE
57
Rtes. : AVES
58
Playing card : TREY
59
Spinning : AREEL
60
Orderly : NEAT
Down
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Play in pinochle : MELD
2
Inter ___ (among other things) : ALIA
3
Film starring Al Jolson, with "The" : JAZZSINGER
4
Penthesilea and her band : AMAZONS
5
Engineer's concern : STRESS
6
He wrote "BUtterfield 8" : OHARA
7
Pilots' records : LOGS
8
Wallach : ELI
9
Decision of a judge : SENTENCE
10
Bathhouse : CABANA
11
Cuckoopint : ARUM
12
Lobster's appendage : PALP
13
Extensions : ELLS
19
Something to make : GRADE
21
Musical instrument : LUTE
24
Dams : WEIRS
25
The last king of Troy : PRIAM
26
Starr of the Beatles : RINGO
27
Designs : PLANS
28
Fonda-Parton-Tomlin film : NINETOFIVE
29
Sodium carbonate : TRONA
30
Gritty particles : SANDS
32
Seaport in Ireland : SLIGO
35
"The Barefoot ___," 1954 film : CONTESSA
38
Supernatural being, in Moslem legends : JINNI
39
Sir Rudolph of opera : BING
40
Church of St. John ___ in Rome : LATERAN
42
Just about : NEARLY
43
Lyric form : RONDEL
45
Present, e.g. : TENSE
46
Egg on : ABET
47
Erect : REAR
48
Concern : CARE
49
Farewell, to Fabius : VALE
50
Layer of the iris : UVEA
51
For fear that : LEST
53
Malay gibbon : LAR

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

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