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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Wednesday, January 3, 1990

23-Across : Hit hard

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Spans: 3
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,666
Across
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Marten's fur : SABLE
6
Cudgel : CLUB
10
Neat : TRIM
14
Swiftly, to a poet : AMAIN
15
Singer Coolidge : RITA
16
Decorate anew : REDO
17
Make merry : KICKUPONESHEELS
20
Native : INHERENT
21
Mollifies : EASES
22
Bridge ace Culbertson : ELY
23
Hit hard : BELTED
25
Reserved; retiring : MODEST
29
Frolics : ROMPS
30
Incite : ABET
31
Avian perch : AERIE
32
Delight : JOY
35
Carouse : SOWONESWILDOATS
39
Fla.'s ___ Largo : KEY
40
Adlai's running mate: 1956 : ESTES
41
Sacrament : RITE
42
Admitted : OWNED
43
Kind of car or game : PARLOR
45
Run at full speed : CAREER
47
Range of vision : KEN
48
Wall decoration : ARRAS
49
Deter from doing : DISSUADE
54
Go on a spree : PAINTTHETOWNRED
57
Stolen goods : SWAG
58
Artifice : RUSE
59
Moved gradually : EDGED
60
Other : ELSE
61
Long-billed bird : IBIS
62
Spacious : ROOMY
Down
1
"The Square Egg" author : SAKI
2
Ugandan exile : AMIN
3
Famed organist-composer : BACH
4
Comparable to : LIKE
5
Acclimates : ENURES
6
Close friend : CRONY
7
Fuzz : LINT
8
Western Amerind : UTE
9
Kind of relief : BAS
10
Gives medical aid to : TREATS
11
Singer Della : REESE
12
Dawdled : IDLED
13
Sphagnum, e.g. : MOSS
18
Animal's skin : PELT
19
Succored : HELPED
23
Writer Pasternak : BORIS
24
Writer Ludwig : EMIL
25
Mummer's cover-up : MASK
26
A double-reed : OBOE
27
Moist : DEWY
28
D.D.E.'s command : ETO
29
Tied the knot again : REWED
31
Daisylike flower : ASTER
32
Lockup : JAIL
33
Lyricist Harbach : OTTO
34
North Sea feeder : YSER
36
Most recent : NEWEST
37
Anglo-Saxon laborer : ESNE
38
Bruin great : ORR
42
Mandarin or Temple : ORANGE
43
Jalapa coin : PESO
44
Rebuttal : ANSWER
45
Swimmer's stroke : CRAWL
46
Costa Rican statesman : ARIAS
47
Predatory birds : KITES
48
Cathedral's projection : APSE
49
An Arnaz : DESI
50
Cause the ruin of : UNDO
51
Jason's ship : ARGO
52
Consider : DEEM
53
Small whirlpool : EDDY
55
Prefix with corn or pod : TRI
56
Focal point : HUB

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