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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Thursday, February 28, 1980

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 34.4
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,069
Across
1
Fundamentals : ABCS
5
Bringing ruin : FATAL
10
Cut : MOWN
14
Subject of U.S.S.R.-U.S. talks : SALT
15
Humble : ABASE
16
Writer's nom de plume : ELIA
17
Certain mediators : TROUBLESHOOTERS
20
Charms : ATTRACTS
21
Plasterwork : PARGET
22
___ point (canvas work) : GROS
23
Source of supplies : BASE
24
Arm of the Mediterranean : AEGEAN
27
Music for two or more : PARTSONG
31
Worry : BROOD
32
Fixed patterns : MOLDS
33
Common level : PAR
34
"___ Yesterday" : BORN
35
Daggers : DIRKS
36
Used a moped : RODE
37
Sugar type : OSE
38
Proverbial fly catcher : HONEY
39
Disguise : BELIE
40
Made a bid : TENDERED
42
Grogshop or dramshop : TAVERN
43
Swan genus : OLOR
44
Dandy's partner : FINE
45
Fictional sleuth : POIROT
48
Acolyte : ALTARBOY
52
Rates an A in toxophily : HITSTHEBULLSEYE
54
Pelion's supporter : OSSA
55
Australian peninsula : YORKE
56
Kind of corner : AMEN
57
Duck : TEAL
58
Upward curves on planks : SNIES
59
___ Porsena : LARS
Down
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Charles's pet : ASTA
2
Starr of football : BART
3
Thick mass : CLOT
4
Caviar source : STURGEON
5
Atlanta athlete : FALCON
6
Seconds : ABETS
7
Russian news service : TASS
8
Tough wood : ASH
9
Ferocious felines : LEOPARDS
10
Measures, in France : METRES
11
Cassini : OLEG
12
Prop for an aerialist : WIRE
13
Famed cartoonist: 1840–1902 : NAST
18
Unit of pressure : BARAD
19
Baking chambers : OASTS
23
Mulish : BALKY
24
Monastery man : ABBOT
25
Gnawed away : EROSE
26
Bridge authority : GOREN
27
Read studiously : PORED
28
City on the Odra : OPOLE
29
Lowest point : NADIR
30
Unsophisticated : GREEN
32
Clementine's dad : MINER
35
Parker and Gish : DOROTHYS
36
About-face : REVERSAL
38
Slave in ancient Greece : HELOT
39
Lacking freshness : BANAL
41
Kind of column or fin : DORSAL
42
King and queen : TITLES
44
Stroke of luck : FLUKE
45
Unit of illumination : PHOT
46
River in France : OISE
47
"___ Grand Night for Singing" : ITSA
48
Dugout : ABRI
49
Basilica part : BEMA
50
___ and terminer : OYER
51
Hankerings : YENS
53
A long, long time : EON

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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