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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Monday, April 12, 1993

5-Down : Lap dog

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, 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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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,861
Across
1
Form of jazz : BEBOP
6
Puts a John Hancock on : INKS
10
Saratoga Springs, e.g. : SPA
13
Come up : ARISE
14
Contaminate : TAINT
16
Barrie boy : PAN
17
Novel by Richard Bradford : REDSKYATMORNING
20
Usher's domain : AISLE
21
Season for skiers : WINTER
22
An Amerind : SAC
25
Napoleon's marshal : NEY
26
Hard and keen : STEELY
27
Carpenter, at times : PLANER
29
Long : ACHE
31
After, in Arles : APRES
32
Toast topping : OLEO
33
Jai ___ : ALAI
37
Disney film re the Arctic: 1958 : WHITEWILDERNESS
40
Arrests : NABS
41
Opposite of aweather : ALEE
42
Growing out : ENATE
43
___ Mawr : BRYN
44
Less distant : CLOSER
45
St. Johns et al. : ADELAS
49
Approval in Amiens : OUI
50
Due follower : TRE
51
Eat with gusto : RELISH
52
Floral essence : ATTAR
54
Arlen-Mercer hit: 1941 : BLUESINTHENIGHT
59
___ Glory : OLD
60
City on the Oder : OPOLE
61
Brazilian state : CEARA
62
Charlotte of TV : RAE
63
Cookbook direction : STIR
64
Aviator Ruth ___ : ELDER
Down
1
Happy-hour spot : BAR
2
Before, to Keats : ERE
3
Grand slam is one : BID
4
Mountain in Thessaly : OSSA
5
Lap dog : PEKINESE
6
Calabrian's land : ITALY
7
Odomes of N.F.L. fame : NATE
8
Kipling book: 1901 : KIM
9
Footwear in Greenland : SNOWSHOE
10
Petty ill will : SPITE
11
Jury : PANEL
12
Put out : ANGRY
15
Banal : TRITE
18
River in Belgium : YSER
19
Tampa-to-Ocala dir. : NNE
22
Produce young : SPAWN
23
Brightest star in a constellation : ALPHA
24
Lesser Antilles native : CARIB
28
Seine and snood : NETS
29
Vermont hero : ALLEN
30
Grant : CEDE
32
Overly suave : OILY
33
Half of A.D. : ANNO
34
The smallest part : LEAST
35
Fall bloomer : ASTER
36
Rhone feeder : ISERE
38
Targets at Pearl Harbor: 1941 : WARSHIPS
39
Dependency : RELIANCE
43
Paul Plishka, e.g. : BASSO
44
Adorable : CUTE
45
Vine-covered shelter : ARBOR
46
Perry's girl Friday : DELLA
47
Escape notice : ELUDE
48
Prevaricate : LIE
49
Wise preceder : OTHER
52
Gudrun's spouse : ATLI
53
Money in Cambodia : RIEL
55
"Wayne's World" word : NOT
56
Wander : GAD
57
Otto's realm: Abbr. : HRE
58
Seaman : TAR

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 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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