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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Thursday, October 27, 1983

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { J K Q }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 27.1
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. 12,406
Across
1
Afire : LIT
4
Catch : BAG
7
Fragrant compound : ESTER
12
Medial quantity : AVERAGE
14
Modified : ALTERED
16
Keep watch on : MONITOR
17
Day that Durocher married : LARAINE
18
Soup : BROTH
19
Battleship destroyed in 1898 : MAINE
21
Like Marvell's mistress : COY
22
Since: Scot. : SYNE
23
City in Nigeria : IBADAN
25
Catapult ammo : STONES
28
Malone of the 76ers : MOSES
32
Cry of contempt : BOO
35
Roberts : ORAL
36
Loni Anderson, e.g. : BLONDE
37
Garb : APPAREL
39
Minting of money : COINAGE
40
They come in flights : STAIRS
41
Admonish : WARN
42
Workout loc. : GYM
43
One-time Italian coins : SOLDI
44
Have amnesia : FORGET
46
Name of eight post-Norman kings : EDWARD
48
Rooms in a harem : ODAS
52
Get-up-and-go : VIM
55
"The Prisoner of ___": Hope : ZENDA
56
Live from day to day : EXIST
57
Fatty : ADIPOSE
59
Act as an agent : MEDIATE
61
Caligula and Nero : TYRANTS
62
Circular Greek letter : OMICRON
63
Easy gaits : LOPES
64
Wife of Amen-Ra : MUT
65
Jan.–Dec. periods : YRS
Down
1
Charles and Mary : LAMBS
2
Africa's ___ Coast : IVORY
3
Projecting part, in carpentry : TENON
4
English spa : BATH
5
Past : AGO
6
Embryonic : GERMINAL
7
Beast with twisted horns : ELAND
8
Make more efficient : STREAMLINE
9
Congou, e.g. : TEA
10
Actor Porter : ERIC
11
Site for certain bandits : RENO
13
Bar mitzvahs, e.g. : RITES
14
Type of writ : ALIAS
15
Ottoman official of yore : DEY
20
First shepherd : ABEL
24
Time of day : NOON
26
Belt of the earth : TORRIDZONE
27
Mine finds : ORES
29
Stump of a tooth : SNAG
30
Tense : EDGY
31
Appear : SEEM
32
Deep tone : BASS
33
Vision: Comb. form : OPTO
34
Geyserite : OPAL
36
Court name : BORG
38
___-mémoire (memorandum) : AIDE
39
Plant with spicy or medicinal seeds : CARDAMOM
41
This was "in the beginning" : WORD
44
Temples of yore : FANES
45
Poisonous : TOXIC
47
Rebecca and Benjamin : WESTS
49
Pepys work : DIARY
50
Former N.Y.C. hotel : ASTOR
51
Some carbines : STENS
52
Container for wine : VAT
53
Romantic interlude : IDYL
54
Contemporary of Chagall : MIRO
56
Blue-pencil : EDIT
58
Soft food : PAP
60
Rhea's cousin : EMU

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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