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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Wednesday, March 5, 1986

42-Down : Schemes for stage sets

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,266
Across
1
Zeus's queen : HERA
5
Moore or Mudd : ROGER
10
Sitter's charge : BABY
14
Cake-topping person : ICER
15
Poetic form : EPODE
16
Flightless bird : EMEU
17
Place of confusion : THETOWEROFBABEL
20
Lone : SOLITARY
21
Item in a first-aid kit : IODINE
22
Teasdale : SARA
23
A Lindbergh : ANNE
24
Home, to Norse gods : ASGARD
27
Pung users : SLEDDERS
31
Like a new penny : SHINY
32
Moves : STIRS
33
Inlet : RIA
34
U.S. missiles : SAMS
35
Listless : MOONY
36
One of the Joneses : DAVY
37
Make do, with "out" : EKE
38
Swiss city : BERNE
39
Spots : SITES
40
Put up with : TOLERATE
42
Pulitzer Prize historian: 1948 : DEVOTO
43
Drumsticks : LEGS
44
Garr of films : TERI
45
Give in : ACCEDE
48
Like some factors : DECIDING
52
Tree-of-life locale : THEGARDENOFEDEN
54
Small S.A. monkey : TITI
55
Bacon accompaniment : LIVER
56
Capital of Italia : ROMA
57
Small barracuda : SPET
58
Irish poet-dramatist : YEATS
59
Street sign : SLOW
Down
1
Platinum records : HITS
2
Reverberate : ECHO
3
A lively dance : REEL
4
Skilled workers : ARTISANS
5
Word on a P.O. wall : REWARD
6
"Wozzeck," e.g. : OPERA
7
Gruesome : GORY
8
Tokyo, once : EDO
9
Type of plant : REFINERY
10
Like some dresses : BEADED
11
Both: Prefix : AMBI
12
Homophone for bin : BEEN
13
Tide or log preceder : YULE
18
Eared seal : OTARY
19
Covenants : BONDS
23
Style of skirt : ALINE
24
Property, e.g. : ASSET
25
Military cap : SHAKO
26
Hebrew letter : GIMEL
27
Cobble : STONE
28
Muse with a lyre : ERATO
29
Fasten securely : RIVET
30
Authority : SAYSO
32
Puts into order : SORTS
35
In a scanty way : MEAGERLY
36
Features in some rooms : DIVIDERS
38
Dutch river port : BREDA
39
Stroke on a letter : SERIF
41
Judicial writ : ELEGIT
42
Schemes for stage sets : DECORS
44
Principle : TENET
45
Lawyers: Abbr. : ATTS
46
Poker token : CHIP
47
Whale : CETE
48
Deity in Hindu mythology : DEVA
49
The golden calf, e.g. : IDOL
50
Captain of the Nautilus : NEMO
51
Harass : GNAW
53
Reno cube : DIE

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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