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Arthur S. Verdesca
Arthur S. Verdesca

New York Times, Thursday, April 20, 1989

50-Across : Urth, Verthandi or Skuld

Author:
Arthur S. Verdesca
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0
Arthur S. Verdesca has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 14 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,408
Across
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Commander of the Scharnhorst : SPEE
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Type of reef : CORAL
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Daunt : FAZE
14
Legendary Swiss patriot : TELL
15
Pax, in Greece : IRENE
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Tract : AREA
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Humerus conflict? : ARMAGEDDON
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Small houses : COTS
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Enthusiasm : GUSTO
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Access to one's garage : DRIVEWAY
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Formerly, formerly : ERST
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" ... as a wild bull in ___": Isa. 51:20 : ANET
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Fat farm, e.g. : SPA
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Turkish pavilion : KIOSK
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Lapham or Deane : SILAS
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Most ancient : EARLIEST
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Curly was one : STOOGE
39
Tulip or olive : TREE
40
Mountain range in India : GHAUT
42
Au courant : UPON
43
Thrill : TINGLE
45
Are these readers high or low? : BROWSERS
47
Bone: Comb. form : OSTEO
48
Very, to Verdi : ASSAI
49
Polar explorer : RAE
50
Urth, Verthandi or Skuld : NORN
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Aleutian island : ATTU
54
Hospitalizes again : READMITS
58
Richest part : CREAM
62
Actress Petrova : OLGA
63
Facial fur? : CHINCHILLA
66
Lascivious look : LEER
67
The Tana flows here : KENYA
68
Latin love : AMOR
69
Duke's daughter : LADY
70
Blotch : SMEAR
71
Hannah Van Buren, née ___ : HOES
Down
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Hart : STAG
2
Alpaca's habitat : PERU
3
"Desire Under the ___" : ELMS
4
Happify : ELATE
5
Co., in Cherbourg : CIE
6
River in Australia : ORD
7
Comedian Foxx : REDD
8
Arctic jacket : ANORAK
9
Ulyanov : LENIN
10
Joking, superficially? : FACETIOUS
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In ___ (consecutively) : AROW
12
Between epsilon and eta : ZETA
13
Simple : EASY
18
City on the Volga : GORKI
22
Waistcoat : VEST
24
Grant's strategy at Vicksburg : SIEGE
25
Nonsense! : TOSH
27
Fistfight : SETTO
28
Slayer of Achilles : PARIS
29
"___ You Glad You're You?" : ARENT
31
Trials : STABS
33
Draw runner : LOPER
34
Marketplace : AGORA
35
Sanity : SENSE
37
Famous, like Betty Grable? : LEGENDARY
38
Ermine in its summer coat : STOAT
41
Bear in the sky : URSA
44
Come into view : LOOM
46
Sorceress : WITCH
48
"O Canada" is one : ANTHEM
51
Haystacks : RICKS
53
Bathsheba's first husband : URIAH
54
Pageboy feature : ROLL
55
Zeno's birthplace : ELEA
56
Long in the tooth : AGED
57
Trigonometry function : SINE
59
Roper of the polls : ELMO
60
Medicinal plant : ALOE
61
Ares, to Caesar : MARS
64
New Deal gp. : NYA
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Durant or Duryea : CAR

Answer summary:
5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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