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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Friday, July 20, 1984

9-Down : Spots

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { B F Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 253 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,673
Across
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Carillonic sound : PEAL
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Let up : EASED
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Kept in cold storage : CHILLED
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Overloaded : GLUTTED
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Apparatus used for fumigating : AERATOR
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Optimistic : ROSEATE
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Río de la ___, S.A. : PLATA
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Word with air or door : OPEN
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Iowa State U. site : AMES
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Comes to nothing : PETERSOUT
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Muscle spasm : CRICK
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Wife of Geraint : ENID
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Guam's ___ Harbor : APRA
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Inklings : HINTS
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Mo. for Kringle : DEC
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Grey or McCrea : JOEL
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Malaga and Madeira : WINES
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Lutelike instruments : MANDOLINS
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Deck item : SPADE
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Kansas city : IOLA
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___ Aviv : TEL
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Judge : OPINE
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Black fly : GNAT
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___ alba (white wax) : CERA
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Ladies in Loja : DONAS
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An English cider apple : REDSTREAK
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Designer Cassini : OLEG
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Contesting party : SIDE
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Washer cycle : RINSE
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Events at school : RETESTS
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Washington peak : RAINIER
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Hollywood hopeful : STARLET
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The birds and the Bee Gees : SINGERS
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Bean from Vt. : ORSON
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Look of lust : LEER
Down
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Like Captain Hook : PIRATIC
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Exultant : ELATED
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Acolyte's milieu : ALTAR
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"The Lip" : LEO
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College in N.C. : ELON
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From, in Frankfurt : AUS
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Substances used in soap : STEARINS
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Worsted fabric : ETAMINE
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Spots : DETECTS
10
Like some teeth : CAPPED
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"War and Peace" character : HELENE
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Became depressed : DROOPED
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Actress Nissen : GRETA
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Furniture on Wall St. : DESKS
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Poe's "The ___ Letter" : PURLOINED
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Lyon river : SAONE
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Crockery : CHINA
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Nags : JADES
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Withers : WILTS
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La Sorda and Houk : MANAGERS
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Dock group : LOADERS
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City in Umbria : SPOLETO
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Cough-medicine ingredient : PINETAR
35
More minute : TEENIER
36
Stationery item : ERASER
37
Kareem's team : LAKERS
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Garden emanations : ODORS
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Ground malt : GRIST
40
Fawn : CRINGE
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Threefold : TRINE
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British carbine : STEN
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Hwy. sign : SLO
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Feel under the weather : AIL

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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