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Arthur S. Verdesca
Arthur S. Verdesca

New York Times, Tuesday, April 26, 1988

47-Across : Swell

Author:
Arthur S. Verdesca
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { F J Q U X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Arthur S. Verdesca has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 14 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,049
Across
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Foreheads : BROWS
6
Bureau finisher : CRAT
10
Qualified : ABLE
14
Citrus fruit : LEMON
15
Submarine : HERO
16
Kind of table or hall : POOL
17
Revere : ADORE
18
And others: Abbr. : ETAL
19
___ Raton, Fla. : BOCA
20
Erudite via reading : BOOKLEARNED
23
Krazy ___ of comics : KAT
24
Recent : LATE
25
Mottled appearance : DAPPLE
27
Ornament in relief : EMBOSS
31
Like some modern music : ATONAL
33
Bird with a weird cry : LOON
34
Italian commune : ESTE
36
Plumbing, e.g. : TRADE
39
Fabric with raised designs : BROCADE
41
Apparition : SPECTER
43
Requested : ASKED
44
The Charleses' pet : ASTA
46
Voracious teleosts : EELS
47
Swell : DILATE
49
A semihard yellow cheese : TILSIT
51
Like the Mohawk Trail : SCENIC
53
"It's ___ to Tell a Lie" : ASIN
55
Eureka! : AHA
56
Tex supporters : BOOKHOLDERS
62
___ monster : GILA
64
Bring up : REAR
65
Wild female water buffalo : ARNEE
66
Uniform : EVEN
67
Pale yellow-green : NILE
68
Do a gardening chore : WATER
69
Antitoxins : SERA
70
A lot : SLEW
71
Native of Gävle : SWEDE
Down
1
Tattle : BLAB
2
Decorate again : REDO
3
Melville novel : OMOO
4
Be employed : WORK
5
Short lines for fishhooks : SNELLS
6
Sharper : CHEAT
7
Asylum : RETREAT
8
Island in County Donegal : ARAN
9
El Greco's "View of ___" : TOLEDO
10
Emergency pol. message : APB
11
Set of ex libris : BOOKPLATES
12
Not express : LOCAL
13
Happify : ELATE
21
Alleviated : EASED
22
Author of "Divina Commedia" : DANTE
26
Package : PARCEL
27
Site of Napoleon's first exile : ELBA
28
Humus layers : MORS
29
Volume vendor : BOOKDEALER
30
___ a blue moon : ONCEIN
32
Touchstone : TEST
35
Capital : SEAT
37
Ready-to-eat food store : DELI
38
Formerly, once : ERST
40
Extempore : ADLIB
42
Place for a cookout : PATIO
45
Fleshy plant of the mustard family : SEAKALE
48
Future oaks : ACORNS
50
Relatives by marriage : INLAWS
51
Magi : SAGES
52
Plant related to the onion : CHIVE
54
Petruchio's Katherina : SHREW
57
Trompe l'___ (visual deception) : OEIL
58
Sketch : DRAW
59
Chap, fellow: Sp. : ENTE
60
Pearl Buck's "The Living ___" : REED
61
Withered : SERE
63
Table-talk collection : ANA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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