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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Monday, March 30, 1981

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { B Q X }, Scrabble score: 307 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 26.4
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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J
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A
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C
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Z
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,465
Across
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Box for jitterbugs : JUKE
5
Open courts : ATRIA
10
Ancient capital of the Moguls : AGRA
14
Roman poet : OVID
15
Use a razor : SHAVE
16
Area below the fetlock : HOOF
17
Oscar winner: 1931–32 : HELENHAYES
19
Adamson pet : ELSA
20
King Cole : NAT
21
Medical suffix : ITIS
22
Merchant : TRADER
24
John ___, star of "Roots" : AMOS
25
Puppeteer Lewis : SHARI
26
Tip : CAREEN
29
Symbols of authority : SCEPTERS
32
"Book of ___" : HOURS
33
Place for a coin : SLOT
34
Linden : HAL
35
Ostentatious : ARTY
36
Condition : STATE
37
Novelist Grey : ZANE
38
Indefinite power : NTH
39
Track : HUNT
40
Frightened : COWED
41
Follow : TAGALONG
44
Identical offspring, in modern science : CLONES
45
Pointed arches : OGEES
46
Cheap falseness : SHAM
47
Macaw : PARROT
49
Title in Turkey : EMIR
50
George ___ Hill, director of a 1973 Oscar winner : ROY
53
Makeshift : RUDE
54
Oscar winner: 1961 : RITAMORENO
57
Nebraska City's county : OTOE
58
Take effect : ENURE
59
Côte d'___, on the Riviera : AZUR
60
Mallard's milieu : POND
61
Blue-pencils : EDITS
62
Bench's protection : MASK
Down
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Oscar-winning director Ford: 1935 : JOHN
2
Layer of the iris : UVEA
3
Tartan skirt : KILT
4
Dutch commune : EDE
5
Lucy in "The Bride of Lammermoor" : ASHTON
6
Novel by Anatole France : THAIS
7
Skates : RAYS
8
"___ Got a Secret" : IVE
9
Lover of beauty : AESTHETE
10
"If I Only Had ___" : AHEART
11
Oscar winner: 1969 : GOLDIEHAWN
12
Midler role : ROSE
13
Distant : AFAR
18
Where to see the Maison Carrée : NIMES
23
Criticize : RAP
24
Ethereal : AERY
25
Oscar-winner George: 1970 : SCOTT
26
Simple melody : CHANT
27
Artery : AORTA
28
Oscar winner: 1968 : RUTHGORDON
29
Highly informal language : SLANG
30
Princess in the East : RANEE
31
Mushing necessities : SLEDS
33
Delivers a haymaker : STUNS
36
Article in a bootery : SHOETREE
37
Kind of lens : ZOOM
40
Mild cigar : CLARO
42
Settled differences : AGREED
43
Oscar-winning director McCarey: 1944 : LEO
44
Some doorbells : CHIMES
46
Stylish : SMART
47
Brace; bolster : PROP
48
Stanley Steamer, e.g. : AUTO
49
Small case : ETUI
50
Mohammed ___ Pahlavi : REZA
51
Charge : ONUS
52
Sergeant ___, W.W. I hero : YORK
55
Sen. Lugar's home : IND
56
Fordham mascot : RAM

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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