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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Tuesday, June 10, 1980

31-Across : Garden pest

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 297 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 33.8
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,172
Across
1
Catch one's breath : GASP
5
Mulching material : STRAW
10
Queries : ASKS
14
Western univ. : UCLA
15
City ESE of Bombay : POONA
16
Chatter : CHIN
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Diner specialty : SHORTORDER
19
Place for an ace : HOLE
20
Greek courtesans : HETAERAS
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British novelist: 18th century : STERNE
23
Home of The Hague: Abbr. : NETH
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"Can't! Don't! ___! Won't!": Kipling : SHANT
25
Solitary bees : MASONS
28
Adds one's 3 cents worth : CHIMESIN
31
Garden pest : APHIS
32
Figure of speech : TROPE
33
Blue Eagle letters : NRA
34
Nutriment : FOOD
35
Masticates : CHEWS
36
Period of rapid growth : BOOM
37
Kind of verb: Abbr. : IRR
38
Calibers : BORES
39
River flowing into the Seine : MARNE
40
Got : ATTAINED
42
St. Sebastian, for one : MARTYR
43
Montana copper center : BUTTE
44
Advantage of a sort in competition : PULL
45
Zoroastrian : PARSEE
47
Fixed : FASTENED
51
Instigate : ABET
52
O. Henry specialty : SHORTSTORY
54
Tree of the rose family : PEAR
55
The "Velvet Fog" : TORME
56
Attire for Cassius : TOGA
57
Actor Ray : ALDO
58
___ off (renounce) : SWEAR
59
In a while : ANON
Down
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Effusive display : GUSH
2
Long : ACHE
3
Opening of a sort : SLOT
4
Megalomaniac, e.g. : PARANOID
5
Big spenders : SPORTS
6
Scroll containing the Pentateuch : TORAH
7
Taylor and Stewart : RODS
8
One, for Angus : ANE
9
Combat vessels : WARSHIPS
10
Fruit of the buttercup : ACHENE
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Potter's vessel : KILN
13
Snick's partner : SNEE
18
Period 'twixt 12 and 20 : TEENS
22
Subdued : TAME
24
Is apparent : SHOWS
25
Island in the Indian Ocean : MAFIA
26
To the left, at sea : APORT
27
Crumbly cookie : SHORTBREAD
28
Religious belief : CREED
29
Type of wit : IRONY
30
Caller : NAMER
32
Picasso's "___ Musicians" : THREE
35
Miss America pageants : CONTESTS
36
Adriatic port : BARLETTA
38
Fall for a trick : BITE
39
Fountain specialties, for short : MALTS
41
___-Hungarian : AUSTRO
42
Assembled group : MUSTER
44
Toscanini's birthplace : PARMA
45
"___, Won't You Dance with Me?": 1947 song : PAPA
46
Biblical herdsman : ABEL
47
Kind of sight or shadow : FORE
48
"High ___" : NOON
49
Therefore : ERGO
50
Cannon of the screen : DYAN
53
"___ now, brown cow?" : HOW

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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