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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Wednesday, March 25, 1981

1-Across : Handle clumsily

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,460
Across
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Handle clumsily : PAW
4
Minute groove : STRIA
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"For whither ___ goest ... " : THOU
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Skating star Heiden : ERIC
15
Chant merrily : TROLL
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___ Beauty (apple) : ROME
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Out of dough : ONTHEROCKS
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Birthstone for October : OPAL
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Valentine gifts, perhaps : NOSEGAYS
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A series of curls : SPIRE
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"Gosh darn it!" : RATS
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Three, in Munich : DREI
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José ___, flamenco dancer : MOLINA
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Deplorably bad : WRETCHED
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Singletons : ONES
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Palace for which Goya designed tapestries : PRADO
34
Gardner : AVA
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Readily : ATTHEDROPOFAHAT
39
Wooden pin : NOG
40
Singer Frankie or Cleo : LAINE
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Assured of success : MADE
42
Flashy : SPORTING
44
Kind of shop or circuit : CLOSED
46
TV emcee : HOST
47
Lecturing trip : TOUR
48
Soap scent : LEMON
51
Having a less healthy-looking complexion : SALLOWER
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Elderly : AGED
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Left ___ (deserted) : INTHELURCH
58
Lion's pride : MANE
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Mississippi, the ___ State : BAYOU
60
Six, in old dice games : SICE
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Positive quantity : PLUS
62
Pointed arches : OGEES
63
Jasmine, e.g. : TEA
Down
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Foot soldier, in India : PEON
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River through Firenze : ARNO
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Retorts are their fortes : WITS
4
Layers : STRATA
5
Cities in N.Y., Ala., Ohio, etc. : TROYS
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Fabled birds : ROCS
7
Kind : ILK
8
Jolson and Pacino : ALS
9
Cancer or Capricorn : TROPIC
10
Snake-dance specialist : HOPI
11
Bradley : OMAR
12
Long river in Zaire : UELE
14
Think of fondly : CHERISH
18
First elected governor of Alaska : EGAN
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___ day (sundown) : SETOF
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Window adornment : DRAPE
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Renovate : REDO
25
Sounds in a ghost story : MOANS
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Sitting pretty : ONTOP
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Released : LETGO
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Like Corrigan's "way" : WRONG
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Sunken fences : HAHAS
30
Get away from : EVADE
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Out of style : DATED
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Photographer's product : PRINT
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Singer John : ELTON
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Place for the speaker : DAIS
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Lovey-dovey : AMOROUS
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Home of the Colossus : RHODES
44
Plant with showy leaves : COLEUS
45
Period before the storm : LULL
47
Lake on Calif.-Nev. border : TAHOE
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Genie's abode : LAMP
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Equal, in France : EGAL
50
Bill of fare : MENU
51
Eye problem : STYE
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Formal document : WRIT
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___ homo : ECCE
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Mother of Zeus : RHEA
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Group on the lower Niger : IBO
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Riding pony : NAG

Answer summary:
3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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