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Barbara Lunder Gillis
Barbara Lunder Gillis

BOGIE

New York Times, Sunday, July 13, 1986

68-Down : Brazilian boundary river

Author:
Barbara Lunder Gillis
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 82, Avg Word Len: 5.13, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 543 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 110, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Barbara Lunder Gillis has 18 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,396
Across
1
Judge's bench : BANC
5
Fille's mother : MERE
9
Open to all : FREE
13
Pivoted bolt : PAWL
17
Daughter of William the Conqueror : ADELA
19
Juniper : CEDAR
20
Capital of Latvia : RIGA
21
Repeat : ECHO
22
Novel about Harry Morgan : TOHAVEANDHAVENOT
25
Junket : TRIP
26
Deductive : APRIORI
27
Estimate : ASSESS
28
Elf : SPRITE
30
Kind of point : TURNING
32
Fulmars' kin : ERNES
34
Seconds for Holmes : AIDES
35
Florida island : KEYLARGO
38
Home street, to a gang : TURF
40
Piebald : PINTO
45
Dessert : MOUSSE
46
"___ Fair," 1953 play : SABRINA
49
Hello, in Hilo : ALOHA
50
Spur : URGE
51
Aft's antithesis : FORE
52
Port side when sailing south : EAST
54
Young hare : LEVERET
56
"Beau Geste" locale : SAHARA
59
Bohemian dance : REDOWA
61
Piedmont city : ASTI
62
Antarctic base : ALERT
64
Bronowski's "The Ascent ___" : OFMAN
65
Governor of N.Y.: 1869-71 : HOFFMAN
68
Resource : ASSET
70
Encircling : HALOING
72
City in Portugal : EVORA
73
Sight at a marina : YACHT
75
Arab prince : EMIR
76
Like some causes : LOSING
78
Locale of the Pindus Mountains : GREECE
81
___ bullet : BITETHE
85
Record : DISC
86
Gula : OGEE
88
Turkish regiment : ALAI
90
Benevolent Chinese spirits : HSIEN
91
Blind alley : DEADEND
93
Type of car or hall : DINING
95
Fumes : STEWS
96
Honshu city : NARA
97
"Barefoot" lady : CONTESSA
99
Baghdad native : IRAQI
102
Admonishes : WARNS
104
Radio signal term : ALLPASS
109
A Gorgon : MEDUSA
111
Dance for Washington : MINUET
114
Smooth flounder : EELBACK
116
Tony's relative : OBIE
117
Hammett book : THEMALTESEFALCON
120
Unaspirated : LENE
121
Batman's creator : KANE
122
Plant of the lily family : TULIP
123
"___ Promise," Dawson poem : TERRE
124
First name of 125 Across : ALAN
125
"M*A*S*H" star : ALDA
126
Residue : SILT
127
Peace Nobelist Cassin : RENE
Down
1
Seaport in Guinea : BATA
2
Choose and take : ADOPT
3
Free India's first P.M. : NEHRU
4
Debussy's "___ de Lune" : CLAIR
5
Hands : MEN
6
Mussolini's daughter : EDDA
7
Stadium sounds : RAHS
8
Puzzlers' tools : ERASERS
9
City where they're raisin' raisins : FRESNO
10
Washer cycle : RINSE
11
Caesar's "___ ipse" : EGO
12
Sign that could stop a truck : EATS
13
Sherwood play (with "The") : PETRIFIEDFOREST
14
Pungent : ACRID
15
Whizzer or E. B. : WHITE
16
Davey of baseball : LOPES
18
Severn feeder : AVON
19
Wouk novel (with "The") : CAINEMUTINY
23
Composer Satie : ERIK
24
Border : VERGE
29
Young salmon : PARR
31
City in Hungary : GYOR
33
Nova, e.g. : STAR
36
Pulls : LUGS
37
Cruising : ASEA
39
"Deutschland ___ alles" : UBER
40
Crony : PAL
41
___ du Diable : ILE
42
Scorpio-Sagittarius mo. : NOV
43
Forester book : THEAFRICANQUEEN
44
Henley competitor : OARSMAN
46
Emulate a lark : SOAR
47
Famous mother-in-law : NAOMI
48
City on the Nile : ASWAN
51
Worry : FRET
53
Savor : TANG
55
Kennedy initials : ETA
57
Dispatch : HASTE
58
Kin of kvass : ALE
60
Flint implements : EOLITHS
63
Chandler book : THEBIGSLEEP
65
Ziegfeld's first wife : HELD
66
Shaped like an avocado : OVOID
67
"Dancin'" director : FOSSE
68
Brazilian boundary river : ACRE
69
Andress film : SHE
71
Friend, in Falaise : AMI
74
Elderly : AGED
77
Migrant : GOER
79
Jargon : CANT
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Critic Faure : ELIE
82
Bond : TIE
83
Fell : HEW
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U.S.N.A. grad : ENS
87
Chew like beavers : GNAW
89
Looped handle : ANSA
92
Footpace : DAIS
93
Reed or Mills : DONNA
94
Affronts : INSULTS
97
Soviet peninsula : CRIMEA
98
Hebrew letter : ALEF
99
Bolognese painter: 16th century : IMOLA
100
Arise : REBEL
101
Donizetti heroine : ADINA
103
Improve : AMEND
105
Map : PLAT
106
More competent : ABLER
107
"Le ___ du Printemps" : SACRE
108
Disdain : SCORN
110
Aleutian island : ATKA
112
Small case : ETUI
113
Swiss patriot : TELL
115
Joint : KNEE
118
Producer Wallis : HAL
119
Win at musical chairs : SIT

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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