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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Monday, August 5, 1991

8-Down : Part of R.S.V.P.

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,245
Across
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Sailor's mop : SWAB
5
Tree-climbing civet : RASSE
10
Margaret Truman's "Murder at the ___" : FBI
13
City in Kan. : IOLA
14
Vest : WESKIT
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Shutout spoiler : RUN
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Admirer of Gallic people : FRANCOPHILE
18
Transport in Genesis : ARK
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Clooney hit: 1955 : TENDERLY
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Tall and slim : RANGY
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Suburb of Paris : ISSY
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Kind of barrier : SONIC
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Worn out : EFFETE
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Corrective : REMEDIAL
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Concealed : PERDU
32
Telegram : WIRE
33
The Charles's pet : ASTA
34
Whoopi's role in "Ghost" : ODA
35
Kind of cream : SHAVING
38
Short-legged horse : COB
39
Finished : DONE
41
Covered-wagon team : OXEN
42
Hersey's town in Italy : ADANO
44
Weigh down : ENCUMBER
46
Hot dog : WIENER
47
Hunter on high : ORION
48
___ Blanc : MONT
49
Hope-chest fabric : LINEN
51
Perrine and Bertinelli : VALERIES
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Baba, the woodcutter : ALI
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Symphony in D minor composer : CESARFRANCK
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Orel's stream : OKA
60
Casts out : EGESTS
61
Actress Witherspoon : CORA
62
Juan or Jose : SAN
63
Loco : DOTTY
64
Carpentry item : TNUT
Down
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Prepare flour : SIFT
2
Had on : WORE
3
Comical King : ALAN
4
Tossed from side to side : BANDIED
5
Answer : REPLY
6
Deadly pale : ASHY
7
Emulate Phil Mahre : SKI
8
Part of R.S.V.P. : SIL
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Forever, in verse : ETERNE
10
Order founded in Assisi: 1209 : FRANCISCAN
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Walled town : BURG
12
Very dark : INKY
14
In a poorer state : WORSE
17
Hand covering for Roman boxers : CESTUS
21
Role for Price : AIDA
23
Canary's cousin : SERIN
24
Foretoken : OMEN
25
Lyric poem : EPODE
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" ... grown by what it ___": Hamlet : FEDON
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Native of Hesse : FRANCONIAN
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"The ___," 1984 film : RIVER
29
Make amends : ATONE
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Toil : LABOR
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Pallid : WAXEN
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Rider of the rails : HOBO
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Louganis feat : GAINER
40
Seine feeder : EURE
43
Take away : DETRACT
45
Finely chopped : MINCED
46
Eats greedily : WOLFS
48
Oscar-winning Borgnine part : MARTY
49
Vientiane is its capital : LAOS
50
Actress-writer Chase : ILKA
51
Immense : VAST
52
Privy to : INON
53
Yellowish gray : ECRU
54
Three-handed card game : SKAT
57
Alter follower : EGO
58
Mount a diamond : SET

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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