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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Wednesday, January 28, 1981

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 17.5
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,404
Across
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Mission built in 1722 : ALAMO
6
Take notice : MARK
10
Zodiac sign : CRAB
14
Birthplace of H.S.T. : LAMAR
15
Art historian Faure : ELIE
16
Warren, Cordell or Henry : HULL
17
How to serve caviar : ONICE
18
This means "little strings" : SPAGHETTI
20
Models of excellence : PARAGONS
22
Famous fabulist : AESOP
23
Search through : RAKE
24
Ramfis in "Aïda" : BASS
26
Jackson's 1885 best seller : RAMONA
29
Bode : PORTEND
32
Fictional town in Italy : ADANO
33
Court star Austin : TRACY
34
"___ the hills ... ": D'Urfey : OER
36
Graceful girl : PERI
37
B'nai ___ (Sons of the Covenant) : BRITH
38
Cold, in Cádiz : FRIO
39
Stripling : TAD
40
Sign on a small hotel : ROOMS
41
Paradise : BLISS
42
Republic founded by American blacks : LIBERIA
44
Items in the Rose Bowl parade : FLOATS
45
High pair : ACES
46
Use a hang glider : SOAR
47
Port in Honshu : OSAKA
50
Item sprinkled on pasta : PARMESAN
54
This means "before food" : ANTIPASTO
57
Related on Mom's side : ENATE
58
Rent : TORN
59
Rusk or Martin : DEAN
60
Group of eight : OCTAD
61
Long draft : SWIG
62
Head or heart follower : ACHE
63
Great White Way lights : NEONS
Down
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Crooked : ALOP
2
Cantrell or Turner : LANA
3
Eastern V.I.P. : AMIR
4
This means "small blessed cakes" : MACARONI
5
Seasoning used in a trattoria : OREGANO
6
Intervening, in law : MESNE
7
Whence the Po flows : ALPS
8
Narrow inlet : RIA
9
Container for lager : KEG
10
See 50 Across : CHEESE
11
Potholes : RUTS
12
___-relievo (kind of sculpture) : ALTO
13
Radar image : BLIP
19
Kind of pudding : HASTY
21
Orel's river : OKA
24
Some cockleshells : BOATS
25
Jerusalem's ___ of Pilate : ARCH
26
Carried away : RAPT
27
"Let's Make ___" (TV show) : ADEAL
28
___ Gras : MARDI
29
Louis from Louisiana : PRIMA
30
Water wheel : NORIA
31
Jefferson was one : DEIST
33
Ménage à ___ : TROIS
35
Singer Lanny or Diana : ROSS
37
Prolix person : BORE
38
Where to see the Pitti Palace : FLORENCE
40
Newscaster's summation : RECAP
41
"Put the ___ Mame" : BLAMEON
43
Activity in a pizzeria : BAKING
44
"Tea ___ Two" : FOR
46
Burgundy river : SAONE
47
Meal for a mare : OATS
48
Weather word : SNOW
49
Pasta-manufacturing town : ATRI
50
Chief god of Memphis : PTAH
51
Prime Minister of Japan 1964–72 : SATO
52
___ impasse : ATAN
53
Calmer and Sparks : NEDS
55
Nabokov heroine : ADA
56
Like Chablis : SEC

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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