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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Saturday, August 18, 1979

45-Across : More irritable

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, 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. 10,875
Across
1
Play tricks : JAPE
5
Test one's moral fiber : TEMPT
10
TV's Parker : FESS
14
Gulf of ___ : ADEN
15
___-propre (self-esteem) : AMOUR
16
Mideastern republic since 1958: Var. : IRAK
17
Italian physician and educator: 1870-1952 : MARIAMONTESSORI
20
Junctions of the skull : BREGMATA
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Has dinner at home : EATSIN
22
Eight furlongs : MILE
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Amphibians : EFTS
24
Massenet opera : ARIANE
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Amerind of Manitoba : CREE
28
Handle clumsily : PAW
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___ Domingo : SANTO
32
Evening, in Paris : SOIR
33
Legal offenses : MALA
34
Head of the "Flying Tigers" : CLAIRECHENNAULT
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Suffix used in names of acids : OLIC
38
Geological divisions : ERAS
39
Central Caucasian : OSSET
40
Son of Odin : TYR
41
Narrow valley : GLEN
42
Henrik and family : IBSENS
43
Theater section : LOGE
44
Snick's partner : SNEE
45
More irritable : EDGIER
48
Closes, as a passage : OCCLUDES
52
Author of "Has Man a Future?": 1961 : BERTRANDRUSSELL
54
Poet translated by FitzGerald : OMAR
55
Marsh birds : SORAS
56
U.S. satellite : ESSA
57
Time when many "punch in" : NINE
58
Figure : SHAPE
59
Distort or distorted : SKEW
Down
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What a door is in : JAMB
2
Month on an Israeli's calendar : ADAR
3
Balzac's "Le ___ Goriot" : PERE
4
Puzzling : ENIGMATIC
5
Mexican fare : TAMALE
6
Act like Duse : EMOTE
7
Freeman of the screen : MONA
8
Stock option : PUT
9
Arborescent plant : TREEFERN
10
Ring weapons : FISTS
11
Youngest of the gods : EROS
12
Draped garment : SARI
13
The depth of beauty : SKIN
18
Musical key : AMINOR
19
Cloy : SATE
23
Canal, city and lake : ERIES
24
Broad necktie : ASCOT
25
Mass meeting, sometimes peppy : RALLY
26
"The bombs bursting ___" : INAIR
27
Composer of "Over There" : COHAN
28
Intermission : PAUSE
29
Mel or Hervey : ALLEN
30
Pianist André : WATTS
32
Rocky debris : SCREE
33
Workers in certain parlors : MASSEUSES
35
Submerged marine plant : EELGRASS
36
Coveted annual prizes, for short : NOBELS
41
Church or theater following : GOER
42
Formed by stamping : INCUSE
43
British quart : LITRE
44
Abandon a project : SCRAP
45
"Heaven's ___ vault ... ": Shelley : EBON
46
Kind of john : DEMI
47
Pilastro or Paradiso : GRAN
48
The Oder, to Czechs : ODRA
49
Rolltop : DESK
50
If not : ELSE
51
Side dish : SLAW
53
Japanese dance-drama : NOH

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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