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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Wednesday, September 29, 1982

21-Across : Neil of music

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, 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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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,013
Across
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Speedy : FAST
5
Finds fault : CARPS
10
King Balak's land : MOAB
14
Two-toed sloth : UNAU
15
Not ___ in the world : ACARE
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Stewpot : OLLA
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Member of the U.S.N. : SUBMARINER
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Actual : REAL
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Gave the cold shoulder to : SNUBBED
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Neil of music : DIAMOND
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Helena's gift to Hollywood : LOY
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Literary work : CENTO
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Potentate of the East : EMEER
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Cry at sea : SOS
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A kin on Mom's side : ENATE
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Form : CONSTITUTE
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Urban problem : SMOG
37
"The policeman's ___ ... " : LOT
38
Nocturnal "woodcutter's" activity : SNORING
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One ___ time : ATA
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Made a hole-in-one : ACED
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Performed : TRANSACTED
45
Heart follower : THROB
47
Ethyl follower : ENE
48
Bears' homes : LAIRS
49
Conservative position : RIGHT
51
Kingsley's "___ in White" : MEN
52
Duke in "The Tempest" : ANTONIO
55
Verve; flamboyance : PANACHE
59
Wisecrack : JEST
60
Famous people : LUMINARIES
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Eastern nanny : AMAH
63
Where Browning sojourned in Italy : ASOLO
64
Edwardian epithet : DRAT
65
Calhoun of the screen : RORY
66
Modiste : SEWER
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Fifth person : SETH
Down
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Bustle : FUSS
2
Faulkner's "Requiem for ___" : ANUN
3
Elephant Boy of films : SABU
4
Emulates Jill : TUMBLES
5
"Barney Miller" actor : CAREY
6
What alkali neutralizes : ACID
7
Sprinted : RAN
8
Foreordain : PREDESTINE
9
Canary's cousin : SERIN
10
Latter-day Saints : MORMONS
11
Table spread : OLEO
12
Bates or Mowbray : ALAN
13
Glabrous : BALD
18
Cuts short, as a space trip : ABORTS
22
Broke bread : ATE
24
Au ___ (up-to-date) : COURANT
25
Acclaim : ECLAT
26
What freeloaders do : MOOCH
27
Join a club : ENTER
28
Magazine : STOREHOUSE
30
Name of fame in Cremona : AMATI
31
One with a burden : TOTER
32
___ button, missile-destroying switch : EGADS
34
Bank abbr. : INT
35
U.S.N.A. grad : ENS
39
Chief ore of lead : GALENA
42
Frank Baum heroine : DOROTHY
44
False reports : CANARDS
46
Place for coal : BIN
50
Lizards of Mexico : GILAS
51
Kind of house : MANOR
52
Slightly opened : AJAR
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Fictional captain : NEMO
54
Dictatorial person : TSAR
55
Large number : PILE
56
Glossy fabric : CIRE
57
Winter necessity : HEAT
58
Lett's neighbor : ESTH
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Cut down : MOW

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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