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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Friday, January 27, 1989

38-Across : Of a nasal partition

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { H J Q X }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 26.6
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,325
Across
1
Tourist stopovers : INNS
5
Intended : AIMED
10
A decision after a bout : DRAW
14
Schoolboy of baseball : ROWE
15
Island in Western Samoa : UPOLU
16
Right-hand man : AIDE
17
Swan genus : OLOR
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Consecutive, mirrorwise : BACKTOBACK
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The very bottom : NADIR
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Ave. : RTE
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Wanders sans any plan : ROAMS
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Growing out : ENATE
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Secretary of State: 1905-9 : ROOT
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Pesters persistently : BADGERS
30
Scene of a Spartan victory: 457 B.C. : TANAGRA
34
Assumed names : ALIASES
35
Servant in the tropics : FANNER
36
Member of the fam. : SIS
37
Bank abbr. : INT
38
Of a nasal partition : SEPTAL
42
Inhabiting an island : NESIOTE
46
Entombed : INURNED
48
Site of a magnificent English castle : ARUNDEL
49
Graham of the gridiron : OTTO
50
Delivered : SAVED
51
Presage : AUGUR
54
Cell item : COT
56
Bandleader from Cuba : ARNAZ
59
Very surprised, through the looking glass : TAKENABACK
62
Edible rootstock : TARO
63
Av follower : ELUL
64
Aromatic herb : ANISE
65
Tree of the Philippines : IPIL
66
School founded in 1701 : YALE
67
Dutch genre painter : STEEN
68
Assembly hall in a German college : AULA
Down
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Pittsburgh intake : IRON
2
Lopez theme song : NOLA
3
A particular cake, strangely enough : UPSIDEDOWN
4
Source of Pará rubber : SERINGA
5
Northern sea bird : AUK
6
"The ___ File," Michael Caine movie : IPCRESS
7
Trench around a fortification : MOAT
8
Author-editor Hubbard : ELBERT
9
Twosome : DUO
10
Native of Bismarck or Pierre : DAKOTAN
11
Costa ___ : RICA
12
Style of furniture : ADAM
13
Traps for flies : WEBS
19
Gray-white mineral : TRONA
21
Charlotte and Norma : RAES
25
Three, to Luciano : TRE
27
Numbskull : OAF
28
Pinza and Chaliapin : BASSI
29
Man from Mars : ALIEN
31
Busy, going skyward : UPANDDOING
32
Private income, in Paris : RENTE
33
U.S.S.R. co-op : ARTEL
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Woe : TROUBLE
40
The sinuses : ANTRA
41
Permit : LET
42
Ilie of the courts : NASTASE
43
Time period : ERA
44
Port in Fiji : SUVA
45
Lack of motion : INERTIA
47
University teacher : DOCENT
51
Weight in Guinea : AKEY
52
Calif. campus : UCLA
53
Caesar's conquest : GAUL
55
Tom Joad was one : OKIE
57
Seed covering : ARIL
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Author of "Nana" : ZOLA
60
"Emerald Point ___," TV series : NAS
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Score for Mary Lou Retton: 1984 : TEN

Answer summary:
3 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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