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Bernice Gordon
Bernice Gordon

New York Times, Wednesday, July 29, 1992

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: 301 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 26.8 Grid has duplicate clues.
Bernice Gordon has 126 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,604
Across
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A kind of bone : WISH
5
Ride downhill : COAST
10
Computer information : DATA
14
Grocery item : OLEO
15
High dudgeon : ANGER
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Material for a lamp base : ONYX
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UNITED STATES : VERMONTANA
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M. Coty : RENE
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On the outside : EXTERNAL
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___ the fat (gabbed) : CHEWED
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Truncate : LOP
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Him and her : THEM
25
European polecat : FERRET
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Athos and Burr : DUELISTS
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Filipe, Jesus or Matty : ALOU
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Very important : VITAL
35
___ jacet (words on a tombstone) : HIC
36
UNITED STATES : NEWMEXICOLORADO
40
Vane letters : ENE
41
Cargo handler : LADER
42
Port in Algeria : ORAN
43
Young pilchards : SARDINES
45
Gridiron player : TACKLE
47
Newspaper section, for short : ROTO
48
Scarlet : RED
49
Foliage arrangement : WREATH
52
Put handcuffs on : MANACLED
57
Reagan's first Secretary of State : HAIG
58
UNITED STATES : ALABAMAINE
60
Pisa's river : ARNO
61
Military coat : TUNIC
62
Neat : TRIM
63
Harold of the comics : TEEN
64
Give the slip to : EVADE
65
Booklet on Masses : ORDO
Down
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Used a loom : WOVE
2
Berry-bearing shrub : ILEX
3
Famed muralist : SERT
4
"Sweet" place : HOME
5
Is unable to : CANNOT
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Ready to be drawn : ONTAP
7
"___ in Calico," old song : AGAL
8
Cap. Hill figure : SEN
9
Like a windpipe : TRACHEAL
10
Moola : DOREMI
11
Over again : ANEW
12
Actress Daly : TYNE
13
Cut down : AXED
18
Narrow fillet on a shaft : ORLE
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Greeting : HELLO
24
Private instructor : TUTOR
25
Ancient temples : FANES
26
Actress Verdugo : ELENA
27
One in a scull : ROWER
28
Jamaican export : RUM
29
Cubes : DICES
30
"Jaws" menace : SHARK
31
Like some currents : TIDAL
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Teatime treat : SCONE
34
Item in a rec room : VIDEO
37
Author of "Daniel Deronda" : ELIOT
38
A chemical salt : XANTHATE
39
Transport for Sinbad : ROC
44
Loser to St. George : DRAGON
45
Combination in a bridge hand : TENACE
46
Furniture style : ADAM
48
Fanatic : RABID
49
"___ Price Glory?" : WHAT
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Like an underdone steak : RARE
51
"___ kleine Nachtmusik" : EINE
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"Give a ___ horse ... " : MANA
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Roman statesman : CATO
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Certain transportation to N.Y.C. : LIRR
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Site of Vance A.F.B. : ENID
56
Salesman's car : DEMO
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Lemmon film: 1967 : LUV

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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