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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Monday, July 13, 1953

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { J K Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 36.4
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1953, The New York TimesNo. 1,485
Across
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Wearer of eagle, anchor and globe. : MARINE
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A city and a French dramatist. : RACINES
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Breakfast foods. : FARINAS
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Brief statement. : EPITOME
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Too hard to be broken. : ADAMANT
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He does another's dirty work. : CATSPAW
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Nonconformist: Slang. : REB
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Donald Oenslager's forte. : SCENERY
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One: Scot. : ANE
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Danish-born American reformer. : RIIS
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Ingredient of beer. : YEAST
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Axillary. : ALAR
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Declaim from a podium. : ORATE
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Wrong: Prefix. : MIS
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Cuts lengthwise. : SLITS
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Growing faint. : WANING
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Maned. : LEONINE
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Frankfurt's river. : MAIN
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Monotonous. : DRAB
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Balmoral and Verurie. : CASTLES
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Goddesses of beauty and charm. : GRACES
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Symbol of vacation ease. : CANOE
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Cow. : AWE
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City in a Carlo Levi book. : EBOLI
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TV's Young. : ALAN
49
Habitats of mountain goats. : CRAGS
51
Busy Olympian. : ARES
52
Insect egg. : NIT
53
Winner of first Nobel prize in physics, 1901. : RONTGEN
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Scales: Abbr. : SCS
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Omission of the last syllable of a word. : APOCOPE
58
Award a promotion to. : ELEVATE
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Dismisses, as from office. : REMOVES
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Destroyed violently. : RAVAGED
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Lack of oil. : DRYNESS
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Enjoyed in common with others. : SHARED
Down
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Most important tributary of the Amazon, 2,000 miles. : MADEIRA
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Ibn Saud, for example. : ARABIAN
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Margin. : RIM
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___ much. : INAS
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City near Sedan, France. : NANCY
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Appreciate the worth. : ESTEEM
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Stopped work for a while. : RECESSED
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Disassociated. : APART
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Mexico ___. : CITY
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Pronoun. : ITS
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Eosin red dye. : NOPALIN
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Issue. : EMANATE
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Civic necessities. : SEWERS
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Litter of pigs. : FARROW
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Tooth and ___. : NAIL
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Secretary of War under Taft and FDR. : STIMSON
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Hero of an ancient tale. : ALIBABA
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Growing out. : ENATE
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Length of wire across a drum. : SNARE
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Ballplayer Hodges. : GIL
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Society: Abbr. : ORG
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Intimacy. : NEARNESS
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Sculptor's measuring tool. : CALIPER
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Sculptor's course. : ANATOMY
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Slug. : SWAT
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Florist's specialty. : CORSAGE
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Put into office. : ELECTED
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Made a sound like escaping steam. : SISSED
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Absurd, exaggerated story. : CANARD
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Moths. : EGGERS
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Struggles (with "with"). : COPES
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Musical pause in the Psalms. : SELAH
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Wander. : ROVE
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River through Leningrad. : NEVA
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Study or peruse. : CON
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Department of France. : VAR

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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