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Barbara Lunder Gillis
Barbara Lunder Gillis

BOGIE

New York Times, Sunday, July 13, 1986

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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
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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
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Caesar's "___ ipse" : EGO
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Sign that could stop a truck : EATS
13
Sherwood play (with "The") : PETRIFIEDFOREST
14
Pungent : ACRID
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Whizzer or E. B. : WHITE
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Davey of baseball : LOPES
18
Severn feeder : AVON
19
Wouk novel (with "The") : CAINEMUTINY
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Composer Satie : ERIK
24
Border : VERGE
29
Young salmon : PARR
31
City in Hungary : GYOR
33
Nova, e.g. : STAR
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Pulls : LUGS
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Cruising : ASEA
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"Deutschland ___ alles" : UBER
40
Crony : PAL
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___ du Diable : ILE
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Scorpio-Sagittarius mo. : NOV
43
Forester book : THEAFRICANQUEEN
44
Henley competitor : OARSMAN
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Emulate a lark : SOAR
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Famous mother-in-law : NAOMI
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City on the Nile : ASWAN
51
Worry : FRET
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Savor : TANG
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Kennedy initials : ETA
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Dispatch : HASTE
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Kin of kvass : ALE
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Flint implements : EOLITHS
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Chandler book : THEBIGSLEEP
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Ziegfeld's first wife : HELD
66
Shaped like an avocado : OVOID
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"Dancin'" director : FOSSE
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Brazilian boundary river : ACRE
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Andress film : SHE
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Friend, in Falaise : AMI
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Elderly : AGED
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Migrant : GOER
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Jargon : CANT
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Critic Faure : ELIE
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Bond : TIE
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Fell : HEW
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U.S.N.A. grad : ENS
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Chew like beavers : GNAW
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Looped handle : ANSA
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Footpace : DAIS
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Reed or Mills : DONNA
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Affronts : INSULTS
97
Soviet peninsula : CRIMEA
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Hebrew letter : ALEF
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Bolognese painter: 16th century : IMOLA
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Arise : REBEL
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Donizetti heroine : ADINA
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Improve : AMEND
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Map : PLAT
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More competent : ABLER
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"Le ___ du Printemps" : SACRE
108
Disdain : SCORN
110
Aleutian island : ATKA
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Small case : ETUI
113
Swiss patriot : TELL
115
Joint : KNEE
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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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