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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Wednesday, March 25, 1981

44-Across : Kind of shop or circuit

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
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Minute groove : STRIA
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"For whither ___ goest ... " : THOU
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Skating star Heiden : ERIC
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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
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Gardner : AVA
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Readily : ATTHEDROPOFAHAT
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Wooden pin : NOG
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Singer Frankie or Cleo : LAINE
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Assured of success : MADE
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Flashy : SPORTING
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Kind of shop or circuit : CLOSED
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TV emcee : HOST
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Lecturing trip : TOUR
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Soap scent : LEMON
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Having a less healthy-looking complexion : SALLOWER
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Elderly : AGED
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Left ___ (deserted) : INTHELURCH
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Lion's pride : MANE
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Mississippi, the ___ State : BAYOU
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Six, in old dice games : SICE
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Positive quantity : PLUS
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Pointed arches : OGEES
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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
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Layers : STRATA
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Cities in N.Y., Ala., Ohio, etc. : TROYS
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Fabled birds : ROCS
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Kind : ILK
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Jolson and Pacino : ALS
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Cancer or Capricorn : TROPIC
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Snake-dance specialist : HOPI
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Bradley : OMAR
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Long river in Zaire : UELE
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Think of fondly : CHERISH
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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
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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
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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
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Plant with showy leaves : COLEUS
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Period before the storm : LULL
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Lake on Calif.-Nev. border : TAHOE
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Genie's abode : LAMP
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Equal, in France : EGAL
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Bill of fare : MENU
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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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