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Barbara Lunder Gillis
Barbara Lunder Gillis

New York Times, Wednesday, October 5, 1983

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Author:
Barbara Lunder Gillis
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 18.8
Barbara Lunder Gillis has 18 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,384
Across
1
Cut : GASH
5
Fictional sleuth and sons : CHANS
10
Vipers : ASPS
14
Grampus : ORCA
15
Boundary : LIMIT
16
Nobelist German physicist: 1914 : LAUE
17
Cicatrix : SCAR
18
Expunge : ERASE
19
Handle for an ancient vase : ANSA
20
Finest, noblest humans : SALTOFTHEEARTH
23
Book section : INDEX
24
Not well : ILL
25
Perfect-launching expression : AOK
27
Area below the crus : PES
28
Shine : BEAM
32
Cheer : BRAVO
34
Garment for autumn : TOPCOAT
37
Singles : ONES
38
Wouk work : THEWINDSOFWAR
41
___ Islands, off Ireland : ARAN
42
Puget Sound port : SEATTLE
43
Capital of Western Australia : PERTH
45
Stead : LIEU
46
Residue : ASH
49
Tot or jot : TAD
50
Sin : ERR
53
Talent : FORTE
55
Award-winning 1981 film : CHARIOTSOFFIRE
60
Whaler in a Melville book : AHAB
61
Society : GUILD
62
Mare's toddler : FOAL
63
Network of nerves : RETE
64
Glanced amorously : OGLED
65
Laborer of yore : ESNE
66
Once, once : ERST
67
Donna and Walter : REEDS
68
Comedian Foxx : REDD
Down
1
Rumormonger's delight : GOSSIP
2
Secret : ARCANE
3
Heats, as milk : SCALDS
4
" ... Poker Flat" writer : HARTE
5
Musical symbol : CLEF
6
Trumpeter from New Orleans : HIRT
7
Nurse in the Far East : AMAH
8
Japanese-American : NISEI
9
"___ and Glass," Lennon song : STEEL
10
Winged : ALAR
11
City near Long Beach : SANTAANA
12
Cinch : PUSHOVER
13
Celebes, for one : SEA
21
"The ___ Incident," 1943 film : OXBOW
22
Church vestment : ALB
26
Greek island : KOS
29
Finials : EPIS
30
Teen-ager's woe : ACNE
31
Of form, as opposed to substance : MODAL
33
Poet Nicholas: 1674–1718 : ROWE
34
Big top : TENT
35
Piedmontese city : ASTI
36
Kind of bag or board : TOTE
38
Actor Arthur: 1894–1975 : TREACHER
39
Construction workers : HARDHATS
40
Down : FLUFF
41
Deft : APT
44
"And love but ___ forever": Burns : HER
46
Melodious : ARIOSE
47
Maroon : STRAND
48
Listed : HEELED
51
Severity : RIGOR
52
___ et noir (gambling game) : ROUGE
54
Tender : OFFER
56
Support a swindler : ABET
57
Baked clay : TILE
58
Pung or luge : SLED
59
Las Vegas term : ODDS
60
Metric unit : ARE

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

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