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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Wednesday, January 28, 1987

56-Across : Deserve

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
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. 13,595
Across
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Mendicant's request : ALMS
5
Fiber from bananas : ABACA
10
Slightly open : AJAR
14
Jezebel's deity : BAAL
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Fabric used by decorators : NINON
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Actor Dastagir : SABU
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Gold digger's benefactor : SUGARDADDY
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Some Feds : TMEN
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Different : DIVERSE
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Sibelius's "Valse ___" : TRISTE
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Flightless bird : EMU
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Intrigue : SCHEME
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Spheres of influence : DOMAINS
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Forms a queue : LINESUP
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Kneeling figure, in art : ORANT
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Form of investment : ABOND
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Navy V.I.P. : SNO
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Engrossed : RAPT
38
Taken in : STUNG
39
Promise's partner : LICK
40
Under the weather : ILL
41
Film in which Jane Fonda won an Oscar : KLUTE
42
Pulitzer Prize writer: 1918 : POOLE
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More squalid : SEEDIER
45
Type of wrench : SPANNER
47
Like the Dead Sea : SALINE
49
Blockhead : LUG
50
Working diligently : PLYING
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Freed from refuse : TRASHED
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Deserve : EARN
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Bird of the South Pacific : HONEYEATER
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Sulk : POUT
61
Growing out : ENATE
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Virginia willow : ITEA
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Spot : ESPY
64
Gave medicine to : DOSED
65
Cut of steak : RUMP
Down
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Liberal-arts degs. : ABS
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Praise : LAUD
3
Epiphany trio : MAGI
4
Worker for an Amazon : SLAVEANT
5
Hit-___ driver : ANDRUN
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Tendency : BIAS
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Keith of the screen : ANDES
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Cape or fish : COD
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Porter's "___ Goes" : ANYTHING
10
"___ Goes By," 1931 song : ASTIME
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Impromptu jazz performance : JAMSESSION
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Incite : ABET
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Mystical mark : RUNE
18
Let slacken : REMIT
22
Tear : REND
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Genetic offshoots : CLONES
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Day from Ohio : DORIS
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Ecclesiastical wear : ORALE
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Pancake topping : MAPLESYRUP
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Father of Jupiter : SATURN
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Sam, e.g. : UNCLE
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Game of cards : POKER
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However : BUT
38
Rode over snow : SLEIGHED
39
Unworldly intellectual : LONGHAIR
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Drying furnace : KILN
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That which refreshes : PAUSE
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Choice : DAINTY
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Enacted : PLAYED
48
Lab vessels : ETNAS
50
Le Moko : PEPE
51
Where Luang Prabang is : LAOS
53
Network of nerves : RETE
54
"___, Brute!" : ETTU
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Believe : DEEM
58
Mrs. Lennon : ONO
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What a fall guy takes : RAP

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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