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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Thursday, May 26, 1983

4-Down : Rock formations

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,252
Across
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First lt.'s boss : CAPT
5
Tree brightly colored in autumn : SUMAC
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___ now (presently) : ASOF
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Cause dander : RILE
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Slant: Comb. form : CLINO
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Kind of message : WIRE
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Hebrew month : ADAR
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Declaims violently : RANTS
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Sister-in-law of Princess Di : ANNE
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" ... longest ___ is the shortest way home": Italian proverb : WAYROUND
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Goal : TARGET
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Metrical foot : IAMB
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"___ saw, I conquered" : ICAMEI
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Windfall : MANNA
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Vertex : NODE
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Cpl., for one : NCO
33
Indignation : ANGER
34
Kin of bugbears : OGRES
35
Hiatus : GAP
36
Apportions : LOTS
37
Russian cooperative craft society : ARTEL
38
Peut-___ (perhaps) : ETRE
39
Old English letter : EDH
40
Eastern nannies : AMAHS
41
An Allen : ETHAN
42
Bishopric : SEE
43
Borge, e.g. : DANE
44
Regimens : DIETS
45
Acts like a coquette : FLIRTS
47
Kind of appeal : SNOB
48
Fly : AVIATE
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Wrecked completely : TOTALLED
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Word on a tombstone : LIES
55
Mrs. Arrowsmith : LEORA
57
German auditorium : AULA
58
Black ___, in judo : BELT
59
System of navigation : LORAN
60
The Eagles, e.g. : TEAM
61
Tots : ADDS
62
Correct : EMEND
63
Worker of yore : ESNE
Down
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Crow's crop : CRAW
2
Role for Price : AIDA
3
Like Garry Maddox : PLAYINGTHEFIELD
4
Rock formations : TERRANES
5
Cancel a launch : SCRUB
6
___-Ude, U.S.S.R. city : ULAN
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Like Stanley Marcus : MINDINGTHESTORE
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Picnic pest : ANT
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___ Sol, part of sunny Spain : COSTADEL
10
Informed : AWARE
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Like Diana Ross : SINGINGTHEBLUES
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River in France : ORNE
13
Units of length : FEET
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"The Tentmaker" : OMAR
23
City in Iowa : AMES
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Innermost parts : CORES
27
Men : MALES
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Cell terminal : ANODE
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Small weight : CARAT
32
Releases : OPENS
34
Kneeling figure : ORANT
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Kind of cherry : AMARELLE
38
Bleach : ETIOLATE
40
Colliery access : ADIT
41
Actress ___ May Oliver : EDNA
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Goes on and on : LASTS
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Tolerate : STAND
48
Dawn, in Durango : ALBA
49
Competed : VIED
51
Algerian port : ORAN
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Joie de vivre : ELAN
53
Whitty of films : DAME
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Billing time: Abbr. : EOM

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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