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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Friday, August 10, 1979

5-Across : Spot of color

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,867
Across
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Injury : HARM
5
Spot of color : BLOB
9
Grasp, with "onto" : LATCH
14
Small wild ox : ANOA
15
Dr. Zhivago's love : LARA
16
City in Portugal : EVORA
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Game for children : HOPSCOTCH
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Point a weapon toward : AIMAT
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Haphazardly : ANYHOW
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Charms : ATTRACTS
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Fräulein's name : ILSE
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Brazilian coffee : SANTOS
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Yes man's specialty : ACCEDING
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Diamond or Sadaka : NEIL
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Donny and Marie : DUO
32
Product of Detroit : SEDAN
34
Gave out bit by bit : DOLED
37
Fields of knowledge at college : ARTS
39
Covered : ROBED
41
"Death on the ___," 1978 film : NILE
42
Assigns : METES
44
Disk on a spur : ROWEL
46
Zero : NIL
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Contents of a small bankroll : ONES
49
Change for the worse, e.g. : REVERSAL
51
Foot part : INSTEP
53
Broad-topped hill : LOMA
54
Golden Fleece seeker : ARGONAUT
56
Take an unexpected trip : TUMBLE
60
River into Bay of Biscay : LOIRE
61
"Le Prophète" composer : MEYERBEER
63
Capital of County Clare : ENNIS
64
Amaryllis's relative : ALOE
65
Archbishop of Canterbury: 1928-42 : LANG
66
Western sights : MESAS
67
___ serif (typeface) : SANS
68
Edible root : EDDO
Down
1
Sunk fence : HAHA
2
At another time : ANON
3
Muscular : ROPY
4
Golfer's No. 5 iron : MASHIE
5
More disheveled : BLOWSIER
6
Map line: Abbr. : LAT
7
Killer whale : ORCA
8
Money in Bangkok : BAHTS
9
Like eminent scholars : LEARNED
10
Field that interested Wiley Post : AVIATION
11
Summer refresher : TOMCOLLINS
12
Followers of auto, bureau, etc. : CRATS
13
Bowlers : HATS
18
Common ailments : COLDS
22
Thrash : TAN
24
Home of a biblical witch : ENDOR
26
Style of furniture : ADAM
27
What mountebanks' pills don't do : CURE
28
Machines for some plantations : COTTONGINS
29
Magda or Jolie, e.g. : GABOR
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Part of a stairway : NEWEL
35
Kazan : ELIA
36
Farmer's spot in an old song : DELL
38
Parts of the brain : SENSORIA
40
Votaries : DEVOTEES
43
Rigidity : SETNESS
45
Animal of Madagascar : LEMUR
48
Red or Dead : SEA
50
Walk aimlessly : RAMBLE
51
Perfume base : IRONE
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Fearsome felines : PUMAS
54
Standard of Turkey : ALEM
55
Tissue : TELA
57
Drop of perspiration : BEAD
58
Furnish : LEND
59
Therefore : ERGO
62
Thither : YON

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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