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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Friday, January 8, 1982

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 55.5
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,749
Across
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Part of a sleeve : CUFF
5
___ Alegre, Brazil : PORTO
10
Tar; pitch: Sp. : BREA
14
Wheel shaft : AXLE
15
Part of the skull : INION
16
Title for Conrad's Jim : LORD
17
Kind of stone : MOON
18
Cynosure at a stadium : SCOREBOARD
20
Emulated Norman Lear : PRODUCED
22
Ministers to : TENDS
23
Magritte : RENE
24
___ seal (otary) : EARED
26
Give notice : APPRISE
29
Musical instrument : MARIMBA
33
Corkwood : BALSA
34
Playwright Connelly : MARC
36
Of the dawn : EOAN
37
Letter from Piraeus : ETA
38
Person or thing similar to another : THELIKE
41
Disencumber : RID
42
River in "The City of Lilies" : ARNO
44
Monogram part: Abbr. : INIT
45
Cubic measure : STERE
47
Maltreated : MISUSED
49
These have more decibels than words : ACTIONS
51
Trunk : TORSO
53
German title : HERR
54
Galileo taught here : PADUA
56
Workmen's wear : OVERALLS
60
Handouts at certain gatherings : DOORPRIZES
62
Bk. of the Bible : DEUT
63
Geraldine Chaplin's mother : OONA
64
Top : CREST
65
Domestic of yore : ESNE
66
Ball of thread : CLEW
67
___ pudding (cornmeal mush) : HASTY
68
U.S.A. military man : SSGT
Down
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David, e.g. : CAMP
2
Mate of a maritus : UXOR
3
Architect's handiwork : FLOORPLANS
4
Fireplace screens : FENDERS
5
Person born on the ides of March, e.g. : PISCES
6
In days of yore : ONCE
7
___ Oro, in Spanish Sahara : RIODE
8
Mountain peak : TOR
9
Limited in scope : ONETRACK
10
Big name in rock : BLONDIE
11
"Abbey ___," Beatles album : ROAD
12
Transgresses : ERRS
13
Say more : ADD
19
Partner of skittles : BEER
21
Member of an Eastern Church : UNIAT
25
Hindu's mythical quaff : AMRITA
26
At right angles to a ship's keel : ABEAM
27
Author-educator Angelo ___ : PATRI
28
Rectifies : EMENDS
30
Approximately : MOREORLESS
31
Wee one in Scotland : BAIRN
32
Cordillera de los ___ : ANDES
35
"The Greatest" : ALI
39
Head of a religious group : HIERARCH
40
Chemical compound : ESTER
43
Attract a larger audience : OUTDRAW
46
Philippics : TIRADES
48
Rubaboo is one : SOUP
50
Self-confident : CHESTY
52
Flows slowly out : OOZES
54
Mosconi's forte : POOL
55
First-rate : AONE
57
Weskit : VEST
58
Iron ___ : LUNG
59
Printer's direction : STET
60
Disney character : DOC
61
Org. in "Odd Man Out" : IRA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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