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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Thursday, March 19, 1981

38-Down : Perfect butler in old films

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J K Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 30.6
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. 11,454
Across
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Censure unsparingly : SLASH
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Fragment or shred : WISP
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Nick Nolte film, with "The" : DEEP
14
Footwear : PUMPS
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Prefix with social or trust : ANTI
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Dome-shaped construction : IGLU
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Turn away : AVERT
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Spruce, in Southampton : TRIG
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Runaway : ROMP
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Actor Santoni : RENI
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Useless; ineffective : STERILE
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Reading, for example : GAOL
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Signal used in the Navy or Army : RECALL
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What a C.P.A. might say : FIGURESDONTLIE
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Most rational : SANEST
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Slight color : TINT
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___ king : ALA
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The masses, to snobs : HERD
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Enthusiast : BUG
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Cooperstown's Speaker : TRIS
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Author Levin : IRA
40
Homeless child : WAIF
42
Sand crab : SPRITE
44
Trope used by Pope et al. : FIGUREOFSPEECH
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Move unsteadily : TEETER
48
Plantation created by Mitchell : TARA
49
Wild asses or catapults : ONAGERS
52
Arkansas-born singer : CASH
56
Sound of thunder : CLAP
59
Anklebones : TALI
60
Hot pepper : CHILI
61
Name assumed by a spy named Zelle : HARI
62
"Beowulf" is one : EPIC
63
Roman place of worship : AEDES
64
Corn lily : IXIA
65
Howdah, e.g. : SEAT
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Beverages : BREWS
Down
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Box cautiously : SPAR
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What Burns compared to a red red rose : LUVE
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Breslin's "World Without End, ___" : AMEN
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Adorned with branchlike figures, as muslin : SPRIGGED
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F.D.R. follower : HST
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Turkey's hanging appendage : WATTLE
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Concerning : INRE
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Slammer : STIR
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Product of a blast furnace : PIGIRON
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Emulate Otto Preminger : DIRECT
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Self : EGO
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Deciduous tree : ELM
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Young seal : PUP
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Class : SORT
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Fast time : LENT
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From, in Frankfurt : AUS
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Early conqueror of Rome : ALARIC
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Witch in Goethe's "Faust" : LILITH
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Realtor's document : LEASE
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Spenser's "___ Queene" : FAERIE
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" ... men ___ strike those that wish them best": Shak. : INRAGE
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Tom Wolfe's "The Right ___" : STUFF
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Cutting remark : DIG
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Dress style : SHIFT
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Life story, for short : BIO
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Perfect butler in old films : TREACHER
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British servicewoman : WREN
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Makes effervescent : AERATES
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Mineral springs : SPAS
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___ annum : PER
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What "literature" was to Helen Keller : UTOPIA
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Hard; rigid : STRICT
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Vacuum : GAPE
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Kazan : ELIA
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___-mémoire (written summary) : AIDE
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Did in : SLEW
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Sound of contempt : HISS
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Greek letter : CHI
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Opposite of 46 Down : LAX
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Uris hero : ARI
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Calloway : CAB

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

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