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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

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New York Times, Sunday, August 30, 1987

100-Across : "Tippecanoe" author: 1916

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 166, Blocks: 92, Avg Word Len: 5.27, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 657 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 145, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 14, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10, Grid flow: 30.6
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,809
Across
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Conical masses of sugar : LOAVES
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Driving force : STEAM
12
An inflorescence : CYME
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Capital of Ghana : ACCRA
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Lead astray : ENTICE
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Valentino's film realm : ARABY
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Bumpkin : LOUT
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More uncommon : RARER
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Tool for a P.I.? : MIKEHAMMERSSLEDGE
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Costa ___, Spain : BRAVA
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Group in the Philippines : ATA
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Hayes or Harding : OHIOAN
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Busy place : HIVE
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Drowse : SLUMBER
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Toward the mouth : ORAD
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Richardson opus: 1740 : PAMELA
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Shoshonean : UTE
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Spots on TV : ADS
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Light machine gun : BREN
42
Subjects of Astyages : MEDES
43
Some team players : REGULARS
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Where to place statuary : NICHES
50
India's ___ Mutiny: 1857-58 : SEPOY
51
Shelters for Devons : BYRES
52
Neckpiece : BOA
53
Sound of an artist? : GEORGEBELLOWSROAR
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Channel : RUT
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Maison followers : ETTES
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Cries of the bacchanals : EVOES
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Motorists' havens : INNS
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Full of substance : MEATY
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___ Day, in Hawaii : LEI
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Type on the typewriter : ELITE
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Loses hair : BALDS
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A shade of red : MADDER
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Dice for a bandleader? : RAYBLOCHSCUBES
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Strongly built carts : BOGIES
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"I'm a dreamer, ___ we all?" : ARENT
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Sphere : ORB
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He recorded "Mack the Knife" : DARIN
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Like pearls on a necklace : STRUNG
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Prop for an Oscar winner? : DONNAREEDSCANE
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Surveying method : STADIA
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Galsworthy novel : TOLET
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Escape : EVADE
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Law, to Pliny: Var. : IUS
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Famed photographer : HORST
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Sutherland offering : ARIA
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Town ESE of Salerno : EBOLI
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Kitchen appliance : RANGE
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T-man : AGT
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Drink for a writer? : SYLVIAPORTERSBEER
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Debussy's "Air de ___" : LIA
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"Tippecanoe" author: 1916 : MCCOY
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Above : SUPRA
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Italy's Lago d'___ : AVERNO
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Diamondback : TERRAPIN
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Rumanian name for a city on the Dnestr : HOTIN
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Part of a shoe : VAMP
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Fasten with filament : SEW
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Room for Scheherazade : ODA
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Impede : STYMIE
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Cinco follower : SEIS
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Throwback : ATAVIST
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Becomes ripe : AGES
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Did some mending : DARNED
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"Bel-___": Maupassant : AMI
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Some Surrealistic paintings : DALIS
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Tufts of ice for a poet? : ROBERTFROSTSRIMES
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___ acids : AMINO
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French possessive : ATOI
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Heroine of Poe's "The Sleeper" : IRENE
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Item in a first-aid kit : IODINE
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Stoop : DEIGN
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Tree of Trinidad : MORA
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Intimidated : COWED
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Hospice in Turkey : IMARET
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Winner of the 1964 British Open : LEMA
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Step ___ (hurry) : ONIT
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One of the Aleutians : ATKA
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Eau de ___ (brandy) : VIE
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Unhappy nymph : ECHO
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Large whitecap : SEAHORSE
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Native of Navigators Islands : SAMOAN
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Set foot on : TREAD
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Get justly : EARN
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Away: Abbr. : ABS
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Poem by R.L.S. : MYSHADOW
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Whence an Anne hailed : CLEVES
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Music for Heidi : YODEL
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Phiz : MUG
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Seasons in St.-Lô : ETES
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Early spring bloomer : ARBUTUS
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Mayor Eastwood's town : CARMEL
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Crosspatch : CRAB
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Dream, in Dijon : REVE
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Sandarac : ARAR
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Wet substratum : MIRE
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Tars in Elizabeth II's "navee" : LIMEYS
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Racing sled : LUGE
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Squashes, e.g. : PEPOS
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Indo-Europeans : ARYANS
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Actress Heather : ANGEL
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One who bants : DIETER
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Sea SE of the Falklands : SCOTIA
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Seeks baksheesh : BEGS
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Free-for-alls : MELEES
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Makes a boo-boo : ERRS
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Wear down : ABRADE
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Certain lines on maps : ROUTES
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Sylvan deity : SATYR
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Otto's realm: Abbr. : HRE
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Arboreal mammal : SLOTH
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What gentlemen prefer? : BONDS
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Fit : BELONG
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Force out : EVICT
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Irritate : RILE
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Copperfield's field : MAGIC
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City in Knox Co., Mo. : EDINA
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Contralto Nikolaidi : ELENA
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___ almond (ice-cream flavor) : BURNT
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Swedish musical group : ABBA
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Robert, of stage and screen : MORSE
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Gains by a fullback : YARDS
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Spread a rumor : BRUIT
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Apex of Mt. Saint Helens : CONE
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Villain in an oater : BADDIE
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Gave out : DEALT
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Prop for George Burns : STOGIE
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Dental problem : TARTAR
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Part of a place setting : DOILY
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Name of five kings of Norway : OLAV
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Revived by a revivalist : REBORN
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City in Portugal : EVORA
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Forty-___ : NINERS
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Sue or Onegin : EUGENE
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Verb used in the Bible : SHALT
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Author Thomas and family : TRYONS
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Goat antelope : SEROW
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Spore sacs : ASCI
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Girl in "Silas Marner" : EPPIE
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Invitation initials : RSVP
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Fortas or Burrows : ABE
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Radioactive nucleus : ISOMER
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Living in a world of fantasy : AUTISTIC
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Builder of two temples at Abu Simbel : RAMSESII
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Dorothea Payne's second husband : MADISON
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Nos. men : CPAS
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Nomadic : ROVING
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Greek goddess of health : HYGEIA
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Skilled, with "in" : VERSED
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"___ We Got Fun?" : AINT
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Small drum : TABOR
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A river at Lyon : SAONE
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Coarse fiber : ADAD
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Lacking excitement : TAME
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Et follower : ALII
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Cable car : TRAM
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A Barrymore : DREW
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Racecourse: Comb. form : DROM
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Eastern potentate : AMIR
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Writing-on-the-wall word : MENE
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" ... ___ it down": Hamlet : ISET
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Indian of Okla. : OTO
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To's partner : FRO
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Mount in Crete : IDA

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 13 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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