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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Monday, April 6, 1987

4-Down : Threw stones

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q V Y Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 2, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,663
Across
1
A kind of waist : WASP
5
Dialect : ARGOT
10
Morose : GLUM
14
Composer of the oratorio "Judith" : ARNE
15
Ice-cream flavor : PEACH
16
Assumed character : ROLE
17
Blabbed : SPILLEDTHEBEANS
20
Rips into shreds : TATTERS
21
Mysteries : ENIGMAS
22
Seat of the Krupp steel works : ESSEN
23
Heck's cousin : DRAT
24
Field of Merce Cunningham : DANCE
27
Annul : RECALL
32
Elec. unit : AMP
35
"The Bridge" is his autobiography: 1940 : POOLE
37
Tony's relative : OBIE
38
Spoke imprudently : TALKEDOUTOFTURN
42
Nonrepresentational painter : KLEE
43
Cristofori made the first one: 1709 : PIANO
44
Randy's skating partner : TAI
45
Crater lake near Rome : ALBANO
48
Attack : STORM
50
Shaft of a wheel : AXLE
52
Vigorous vitality : GUSTO
56
Park in Queens : ASTORIA
60
Saints' days in Sevilla : FIESTAS
62
Flatter : SPREADITONTHICK
64
High-strung : TAUT
65
Accustom : ENURE
66
Commune in Sicily : ENNA
67
Design : IDEA
68
Mails : SENDS
69
Rigel is one : STAR
Down
1
Scrap : WASTE
2
Harps: Sp. : ARPAS
3
States of agitation : SNITS
4
Threw stones : PELTED
5
Little, e.g. : APER
6
Scarlet and cherry : REDS
7
Roscoe : GAT
8
Earthy pigment : OCHER
9
Palm : THENAR
10
Diver Louganis : GREG
11
Rich soil : LOAM
12
Forearm bone : ULNA
13
Chow : MESS
18
See 31 Down : LENAPE
19
Munch : BITE
23
Comedian Dom : DELUISE
25
Dreamland : NOD
26
Leghorn's home : COOP
28
Camping gear : COT
29
Touch upon : ABUT
30
Turkish coin : LIRA
31
With 18 Down, a Delaware : LENI
32
An Aleutian island : ATKA
33
Shopping area : MALL
34
Commoner : PLEB
36
State, in St.-Lô : ETAT
39
Large parrot : KEA
40
Yoko : ONO
41
___-me-not : FORGET
46
Ex-capital of Japan : NARA
47
Binary compounds : OXIDES
49
Drives a dog team : MUSHES
51
"Mule Train" singer : LAINE
53
Chore : STINT
54
Peruvian city : TACNA
55
Actor Werner : OSKAR
56
Italian wine center : ASTI
57
Plane or nail : SPAD
58
Exam answer : TRUE
59
Range in Greece : OETA
60
Glenn or Henry : FORD
61
Feminine suffixes : INES
63
Cask : TUN

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 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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