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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

Colloquial Company

New York Times, Sunday, March 27, 1983

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 68, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 561 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 136, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 18, Grid flow: 15.0 Grid is asymmetric.
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,192
Across
1
Move, in checkers : JUMP
5
Onward in time : FORTH
10
Sea lettuce : ALGA
14
Burgeon : ERUPT
19
Novello : IVOR
20
"Falstaff," e.g. : OPERA
21
Source : SEED
22
Skin ailment : TINEA
23
Carlo Maria Giulini : BATONWAVER
25
Warren E. Burger, at times : HARDRAPPER
27
Spills the beans : TELLS
28
Mother-of-pearl : NACRE
30
Princes in Afghanistan : AMEERS
31
Pitiless taskmasters : LEGREES
34
A Monet contemporary : REDON
35
Overcharges : STINGS
36
Companions of Pan : OREADS
37
Skirt insert : SETIN
38
British carbines : STENS
39
"Boys Town" won him an Oscar : TRACY
40
Rona Barrett : CHATTERTALE
42
Davis or Hyman : MAC
45
Legal wrong : TORT
46
Secular : LAIC
47
Galley gear : OARS
48
___ bunting (a finch) : CIRL
49
Y.M.C.A., e.g. : ORG
50
Burt Bacharach : TUNETWISTER
54
Fixed relation : RATIO
55
Applied cosmetics : ROUGED
57
Flat ring on a bit : ROWEL
58
Bandleader Stan : KENTON
59
Checked : STIFLED
61
Frigid and Torrid : ZONES
62
Winner at Wimbledon: 1925 : LACOSTE
63
Stories or crayons : CONTES
64
Neural networks : RETIA
65
Book of the O.T. : SAMUEL
66
Guanaco's home : ANDES
67
Joan Rivers : WISECRACKER
69
Religious letters : IHS
72
Property charge : LIEN
73
Arrest progress : HALT
74
"___ bien!" : TRES
75
Kind of ball or bank : SNOW
76
Buzzing beetle : DOR
77
Steve Martin : BELLYBUSTER
81
Line or twine: Fr. : LIGNE
82
Stable youngsters : FOALS
83
Shriver, to Kennedy : INLAW
84
Region in ancient Palestine : GILEAD
85
Manhattan garnish : CHERRY
87
Tradesman, for one : PLIER
88
Site of a rock-carved lion : LUCERNE
89
Fern leaves : FRONDS
90
Concert piece : VALSE
91
Bridge ace : GOREN
92
The Murrays : RUGCUTTERS
94
Tillie the Toiler : KEYPUNCHER
99
American dogwood : OSIER
100
Further : ALSO
101
Nothing, to McEnroe : LOVE
102
Solo, in St.-Lô : SEULE
103
Style of Vermeer's work : GENRE
104
Unclaimed piece of property : WAIF
105
North Sea feeder : YSER
106
He painted "The Great Forest" : ERNST
Down
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Arm of a crane : JIB
2
Grape : UVA
3
Witty saying : MOT
4
Lengthen : PROTRACT
5
Author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" : FOWLES
6
Menilites : OPALS
7
Guns the engine : REVS
8
Pavarotti's three : TRE
9
Trompe-l'oeil painter: 1848–92 : HARNETT
10
Accumulation of cinders : ASHCONE
11
Grasp : LEARN
12
Stage and screen star : GERE
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Append : ADD
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Light cotton fabric : ETAMINE
15
Matures : RIPENS
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Remove dowels : UNPEG
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Jury members : PEERS
18
Seamen : TARS
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Wanting : NEEDY
26
Badgerlike animals : RATELS
29
Access : ADIT
31
Keno's kin : LOTTO
32
Slip : ERROR
33
Mario Andretti : GEARGRINDER
34
Produce a chemical change in : REACT
35
Kay or Bart : STARR
37
Started suddenly : SHIED
38
Baronne de ___-Holstein : STAEL
40
Beat : CANED
41
Fixed courses : ROTES
42
Larry Holmes : MITTSLINGER
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Tumultuously : ARIOT
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Progeny of a sort : CLONE
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Equipment used in Winter Olympics : LUGES
48
Portage item : CANOE
50
Cattails : TULES
51
Emulated Rice or Oates : WROTE
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Homer's tongue : IONIC
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Take an oath : SWEAR
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Come up again : RECUR
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Frequently : OFTEN
58
Glacial ridges : KAMES
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Cook slightly : SCALD
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Character in "I Pagliacci" : TONIO
61
Piquant : ZESTY
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Nixon or Johnson : LAKER
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Brooklets : RILLS
65
Kind of driver : SCREW
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Cox of "Mr. Peepers" : WALLY
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Volatile oil : ATTAR
70
Its capital is Chengchow : HONAN
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Borg is one : SWEDE
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San Simeon resident : HEARST
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Roscoe attachment : SILENCER
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Chef's garnish : BORDURE
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___ sale and fare : BILLSOF
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Etats-___ : UNIS
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With smoothness : SLEEKLY
81
Nimrod's need : LICENSE
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He has a duel role : FENCER
84
Assamese adviser : GURU
85
Water holder : CRUSE
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___ armor (unwieldy ironclad) : HOGIN
87
Iranian dialect : PARSI
88
Trained horse : LOPER
89
Kermit of the Muppets : FROG
90
Soft palates : VELA
91
Shackle : GYVE
93
Child's marble : TAW
95
Memnon's mother : EOS
96
Attila was one : HUN
97
They loop the Loop : ELS
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Harm by exposure to moisture : RET

Answer summary:
15 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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