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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Thursday, October 4, 1984

26-Across : Public storehouse

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { G J K W Y Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 3, 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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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,749
Across
1
Meal : REPAST
7
Francesca's ill-fated lover : PAOLO
12
Mother of Galahad : ELAINE
13
A star's part : LEADROLE
16
Wall St. bear : SELLER
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Parceled out : ALLOTTED
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Egg: Comb. form : OVI
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Salad plants : ENDIVES
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Figure on a clock : III
22
Maiden : LASS
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Sea duck : EIDER
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Saint-Michel, e.g. : MONT
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Public storehouse : ETAPE
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"___ any drop to drink": Coleridge : NOR
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Layers : HENS
30
Native of a Black Sea port : ODESSAN
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What sometimes flies : FUR
33
University head : RECTOR
34
Plain : COMMON
37
One of the Ritters : TEX
38
Evangelist's warning : PREPARE
39
Round Table knight : BORS
41
Waitress in Mel's diner : FLO
42
Earl, the jazz pianist and conductor : HINES
44
"Utopia" author : MORE
45
Gall : BRASS
47
County in Florida : DADE
48
Baseball stat. : ERA
49
Prefabricated shelter : QUONSET
51
Dressler role : MIN
52
Right to demand payment : RECOURSE
54
Hindu VIP's : RANEES
56
Heroic people : VALIANTS
57
Strip a whale's blubber : FLENSE
58
Avian food : SEEDS
59
Walter and Winfield : SCOTTS
Down
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Do a cobbler's job : RESOLE
2
Farmer's grain ___ : ELEVATOR
3
Line of cliffs : PALISADE
4
Trouble : AIL
5
Snicker's partner : SNEE
6
Alloy of lead and tin : TERNE
7
More washed out : PALER
8
Stirs : ADOS
9
Scrap : ORT
10
Sunburn aid : LOTION
11
Liquid parts of fat : OLEINS
13
Applied to the surface : LAIDON
14
Young eel : ELVER
15
Blue-pencil : EDIT
20
Moslem's coin : DINAR
23
Banquo at Macbeth's banquet : SPECTRE
25
Fanciful fountain figure : MERMAID
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Creator of the Moffats : ESTES
29
Skeptic's sound : HUMPH
31
Fenway Park team, for short : SOX
32
Burr, to Hamilton : FOE
34
Grammy-winner Christopher: 1980 : CROSS
35
Embellish : ORNAMENT
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Most destitute : NEEDIEST
38
British Comets, e.g. : PLANES
39
The north wind : BOREAS
40
Forecaster : ORACLE
41
Four-time Pulitzer Prize winner : FROST
43
Meanings : SENSES
44
TV host ___ Griffin : MERV
45
He was a cotter's son : BURNS
46
Feudal workers : SERFS
49
Block of type metal : QUAD
50
Nursery necessity : TALC
53
Goose, in Grenoble : OIE
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Classic preceder : NEO

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