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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Wednesday, June 18, 1980

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 238 (avg 1.27)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 25.8
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

In Maleska's logbook, Jack L. Steinhardt is listed as the constructor, but Bernice Gordon listed this puzzle as hers in her record.

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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,180
Across
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King of the Huns : ATLI
5
Italian seaport : BARI
9
Rational : SANE
13
Without a mixer : NEAT
14
Praying figure : ORANT
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Heavy tread : PLOD
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Depart unofficially : TAKEFRENCHLEAVE
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One's natural habitat : ELEMENT
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Pertaining to the wind : EOLIAN
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Comprehend : SEE
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Overlay : COAT
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Rapidly : PRESTO
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Amusing person : CARD
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Rage : FAD
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The O'Grady girl : ROSIE
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Dark moon plain : MARE
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Site of the Cordilleras : PERU
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Francis Joseph I : AUSTRIANEMPEROR
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These should be crossed : TEES
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Fox or turkey follower : TROT
40
Remove : ERASE
41
Either half of a domino : END
42
Fixed sea route : LANE
43
It may be bay, royal, crown or brow : ANTLER
44
Customary function : ROLE
45
Type of light : ARC
46
Rabbitlike rodent : AGOUTI
49
Ornamental mats : DOILIES
54
Masochistic merriment : RUSSIANROULETTE
57
In other respects : ELSE
58
Scottish county or river : NAIRN
59
Bristle : SETA
60
Evian and Karlsbad : SPAS
61
Sanctuary for Thoreau : POND
62
Boris or Feodor : TSAR
Down
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Expense share : ANTE
2
Small duck : TEAL
3
Veronica or Arthur : LAKE
4
Article : ITEM
5
Malay Archipelago island : BORNEO
6
Craggy crest : ARETE
7
Wife of Aegir : RAN
8
Combined in one body: Abbr. : INC
9
European wheat : SPELT
10
Soviet range : ALAI
11
PBS program : NOVA
12
"East of ___" : EDEN
15
Rule expressed by an equation : THEOREM
18
Rankle : FESTER
19
Work or boat follower : LOAD
23
Insertion mark : CARET
24
Babble : PRATE
25
Where Joan of Arc died : ROUEN
26
Chariot : ESSED
27
Is located : SITS
28
Portage vessel : CANOE
29
Not domesticated : FERAL
30
Hit the deck, in one sense : AROSE
31
Painter of "Four Apostles" : DURER
33
Château-Thierry's river : MARNE
34
Sprightly : PERT
36
Mendelssohn symphony: 1833 : ITALIAN
37
Eyebrow ___ : PENCIL
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Nom de plume of Viaud : LOTI
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Encircling : AROUND
44
Ploys : RUSES
45
Festoon : ADORN
46
God of war : ARES
47
Mouthful : GULP
48
Greek peak : OSSA
50
"___ we forget ... " : LEST
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Doctrinal suffixes : ITES
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Singer James : ETTA
53
Catch on a gunlock : SEAR
55
Infant's daily break : NAP
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___ Branco, Brazil : RIO

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

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