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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Wednesday, June 10, 1992

19-Across : Member of an Iraqi people

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,555
Across
1
MOMA showing : OPART
6
Boundless : VAST
10
A plane takeoff, for short : JATO
14
Race for Carl Lewis : RELAY
15
Eskimo settlement in Greenland : ETAH
16
Viva-voce : ORAL
17
Payola : BRIBE
18
M. Coty : RENE
19
Member of an Iraqi people : KURD
20
Location : SITE
21
Serfdom : BONDAGE
23
"Raja of Imperial Cinema" : LEAN
25
Of a foot part : TARSAL
29
Her "brain children" were Poirot and Marple : AGATHACHRISTIE
33
Exact : STRICT
34
Double-crosser : HEEL
35
Lode material : ORE
36
Brazilian macaws : ARAS
37
Harquebus, e.g. : GUN
38
Hit the dirt : SLID
39
Storage area : BIN
40
Sordid : MEAN
42
Karamanlis's capital : ATHENS
44
Creator of Gunga Din : RUDYARDKIPLING
47
Kuwaiti V.I.P.'s : AMEERS
48
Resort on the Mediterranean : NICE
49
Skeptically : ASKANCE
52
Loupe : LENS
56
Not quite closed : AJAR
59
Pelvic bones : ILIA
60
Own up : ADMIT
61
Author Bellow : SAUL
62
Indications of approval : NODS
63
Character in Byron's "Don Juan" : LEILA
64
Sprite : PIXY
65
Flèche weapon : EPEE
66
Good-for-nothing : IDLER
Down
1
Spheres : ORBS
2
Lovely girl : PERI
3
Came to roost : ALIT
4
Comic genius of world literature : RABELAIS
5
Nautical chain : TYE
6
The home of Shakespeare's gentlemen : VERONA
7
Disk worshiped by Amenhotep IV : ATEN
8
Fortitude : SAND
9
London's Globe : THEATRE
10
They are often wild : JOKERS
11
Indonesian islands : ARU
12
Ralph Rackstraw, e.g. : TAR
13
Glory preceder : OLD
21
What to spend in Bangkok : BAHT
22
Writer Sheehy : GAIL
24
Et al.'s kin : ETC
26
"The ___ Hours," 1963 film : STOLEN
27
Outdoors walk : AIRING
28
City on the Aire : LEEDS
29
Chamber of the heart : ATRIUM
30
___ Terre in the French West Indies : GRANDE
31
Thickset horse : CHUNK
32
Layer : HEN
33
Israeli-born native : SABRA
37
Wander : GAD
38
Provided cover for : SHIELDED
40
The red planet : MARS
41
Former Dodger pitcher : ERSKINE
42
Cap- ___ (from head to foot) : APIE
43
Solicitude in a hosp. : TLC
45
Per annum : YEARLY
46
Enclose : INCASE
50
Cockeyed : ALOP
51
Brood of pheasants : NIDE
53
Author Ludwig : EMIL
54
Egypt's lifeline : NILE
55
Julie Andrews film: 1968 : STAR
56
Cleo's undoing : ASP
57
___ alai : JAI
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"La Dame ___ Camélias" : AUX
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Former ring king : ALI

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