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Bernice Gordon
New York Times, Wednesday, January 28, 1987
Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 43.8
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 A | 2 L | 3 M | 4 S | 5 A | 6 B | 7 A | 8 C | 9 A | 10 A | 11 J | 12 A | 13 R |
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14 B | A | A | L | 15 N | I | N | O | N | 16 S | A | B | U |
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17 S | U | G | A | 18 R | D | A | D | D | Y | 19 T | M | E | N |
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20 D | I | V | E | R | S | E | 21 T | 22 R | I | S | T | E |
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23 E | M | U | 24 S | 25 C | H | E | M | E | ||||||
26 D | 27 O | 28 M | A | I | N | 29 S | 30 L | I | N | E | S | 31 U | 32 P |
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33 O | R | A | N | T | 34 A | 35 B | O | N | D | 36 S | N | O |
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37 R | A | P | T | 38 S | T | U | N | G | 39 L | I | C | K |
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40 I | L | L | 41 K | L | U | T | E | 42 P | O | O | L | E |
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43 S | E | E | 44 D | I | E | R | 45 S | 46 P | A | N | N | E | R |
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47 S | A | L | I | N | 48 E | 49 L | U | G | ||||||
50 P | 51 L | Y | I | N | G | 52 T | 53 R | A | S | H | 54 E | 55 D | ||
56 E | A | R | N | 57 H | 58 O | N | E | Y | E | A | T | E | 59 R |
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60 P | O | U | T | 61 E | N | A | T | E | 62 I | T | E | A |
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63 E | S | P | Y | 64 D | O | S | E | D | 65 R | U | M | P |
© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,595
Across
1
Mendicant's request : ALMS
5
Fiber from bananas : ABACA
10
Slightly open : AJAR
14
Jezebel's deity : BAAL
15
Fabric used by decorators : NINON
16
Actor Dastagir : SABU
17
Gold digger's benefactor : SUGARDADDY
19
Some Feds : TMEN
20
Different : DIVERSE
21
Sibelius's "Valse ___" : TRISTE
23
Flightless bird : EMU
24
Intrigue : SCHEME
26
Spheres of influence : DOMAINS
30
Forms a queue : LINESUP
33
Kneeling figure, in art : ORANT
34
Form of investment : ABOND
36
Navy V.I.P. : SNO
37
Engrossed : RAPT
38
Taken in : STUNG
39
Promise's partner : LICK
40
Under the weather : ILL
41
Film in which Jane Fonda won an Oscar : KLUTE
42
Pulitzer Prize writer: 1918 : POOLE
43
More squalid : SEEDIER
45
Type of wrench : SPANNER
47
Like the Dead Sea : SALINE
49
Blockhead : LUG
50
Working diligently : PLYING
52
Freed from refuse : TRASHED
56
Deserve : EARN
57
Bird of the South Pacific : HONEYEATER
60
Sulk : POUT
61
Growing out : ENATE
62
Virginia willow : ITEA
63
Spot : ESPY
64
Gave medicine to : DOSED
65
Cut of steak : RUMP
Down
1
Liberal-arts degs. : ABS
2
Praise : LAUD
3
Epiphany trio : MAGI
4
Worker for an Amazon : SLAVEANT
5
Hit-___ driver : ANDRUN
6
Tendency : BIAS
7
Keith of the screen : ANDES
8
Cape or fish : COD
9
Porter's "___ Goes" : ANYTHING
10
"___ Goes By," 1931 song : ASTIME
11
Impromptu jazz performance : JAMSESSION
12
Incite : ABET
13
Mystical mark : RUNE
18
Let slacken : REMIT
22
Tear : REND
25
Genetic offshoots : CLONES
26
Day from Ohio : DORIS
27
Ecclesiastical wear : ORALE
28
Pancake topping : MAPLESYRUP
29
Father of Jupiter : SATURN
31
Sam, e.g. : UNCLE
32
Game of cards : POKER
35
However : BUT
38
Rode over snow : SLEIGHED
39
Unworldly intellectual : LONGHAIR
41
Drying furnace : KILN
42
That which refreshes : PAUSE
44
Choice : DAINTY
46
Enacted : PLAYED
48
Lab vessels : ETNAS
50
Le Moko : PEPE
51
Where Luang Prabang is : LAOS
53
Network of nerves : RETE
54
"___, Brute!" : ETTU
55
Believe : DEEM
58
Mrs. Lennon : ONO
59
What a fall guy takes : RAP
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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