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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Thursday, March 19, 1981

31-Down : Tom Wolfe's "The Right ___"

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J K Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, 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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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,454
Across
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Censure unsparingly : SLASH
6
Fragment or shred : WISP
10
Nick Nolte film, with "The" : DEEP
14
Footwear : PUMPS
15
Prefix with social or trust : ANTI
16
Dome-shaped construction : IGLU
17
Turn away : AVERT
18
Spruce, in Southampton : TRIG
19
Runaway : ROMP
20
Actor Santoni : RENI
21
Useless; ineffective : STERILE
23
Reading, for example : GAOL
25
Signal used in the Navy or Army : RECALL
29
What a C.P.A. might say : FIGURESDONTLIE
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Most rational : SANEST
34
Slight color : TINT
35
___ king : ALA
36
The masses, to snobs : HERD
37
Enthusiast : BUG
38
Cooperstown's Speaker : TRIS
39
Author Levin : IRA
40
Homeless child : WAIF
42
Sand crab : SPRITE
44
Trope used by Pope et al. : FIGUREOFSPEECH
47
Move unsteadily : TEETER
48
Plantation created by Mitchell : TARA
49
Wild asses or catapults : ONAGERS
52
Arkansas-born singer : CASH
56
Sound of thunder : CLAP
59
Anklebones : TALI
60
Hot pepper : CHILI
61
Name assumed by a spy named Zelle : HARI
62
"Beowulf" is one : EPIC
63
Roman place of worship : AEDES
64
Corn lily : IXIA
65
Howdah, e.g. : SEAT
66
Beverages : BREWS
Down
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Box cautiously : SPAR
2
What Burns compared to a red red rose : LUVE
3
Breslin's "World Without End, ___" : AMEN
4
Adorned with branchlike figures, as muslin : SPRIGGED
5
F.D.R. follower : HST
6
Turkey's hanging appendage : WATTLE
7
Concerning : INRE
8
Slammer : STIR
9
Product of a blast furnace : PIGIRON
10
Emulate Otto Preminger : DIRECT
11
Self : EGO
12
Deciduous tree : ELM
13
Young seal : PUP
21
Class : SORT
22
Fast time : LENT
24
From, in Frankfurt : AUS
26
Early conqueror of Rome : ALARIC
27
Witch in Goethe's "Faust" : LILITH
28
Realtor's document : LEASE
29
Spenser's "___ Queene" : FAERIE
30
" ... men ___ strike those that wish them best": Shak. : INRAGE
31
Tom Wolfe's "The Right ___" : STUFF
32
Cutting remark : DIG
33
Dress style : SHIFT
37
Life story, for short : BIO
38
Perfect butler in old films : TREACHER
40
British servicewoman : WREN
41
Makes effervescent : AERATES
42
Mineral springs : SPAS
43
___ annum : PER
45
What "literature" was to Helen Keller : UTOPIA
46
Hard; rigid : STRICT
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Vacuum : GAPE
51
Kazan : ELIA
53
___-mémoire (written summary) : AIDE
54
Did in : SLEW
55
Sound of contempt : HISS
56
Greek letter : CHI
57
Opposite of 46 Down : LAX
58
Uris hero : ARI
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Calloway : CAB

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 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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