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Arthur S. Verdesca
Arthur S. Verdesca

New York Times, Thursday, July 22, 1993

61-Across : Unit of pressure

Author:
Arthur S. Verdesca
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 242 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Arthur S. Verdesca has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 14 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,962
Across
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Actor Thicke : ALAN
5
Decorative knob : BOSS
9
Problem for Santa : SOOT
13
Robot : GOLEM
15
Mentor-on-the-Lake's lake : ERIE
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Rent : TORE
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Soprano Lucine ___ : AMARA
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Declaim violently : RANT
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Simply : ONLY
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Children's chant : RAINRAINGOAWAY
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Strikebreaker : SCAB
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Eng.'s continent : EUR
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Give back : RESTORE
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Put away for safekeeping : STASHED
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Author LeShan : EDA
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Hammett heroine : NORA
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Hero's birthplace : DELI
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Kelly hit : SINGININTHERAIN
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A first name in comics : ETTA
43
Thin layer of ore : SEAM
44
Half a bad biter : TSE
45
Get ___ out (fix the software) : THEBUGS
49
Detached forcibly : AVULSED
51
Furrow : RUT
52
Gaucho's weapon : BOLA
53
Lockridge novel : RAINTREECOUNTY
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Obtain for : EARN
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Unit of pressure : TORR
62
Arrow poison : URARE
63
Hart : STAG
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"Omnia vincit ___" : AMOR
65
Famed French battle site : SEDAN
66
Pierre's caput : TETE
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Lenient : EASY
68
Sitters' creations : LAPS
Down
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Temple's first : AGAR
2
Kin of a mesa : LOMA
3
Krygyz range : ALAI
4
German Nobel chemist : NERNST
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Thiamine-deficiency disease : BERIBERI
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Scene of Camus's "The Plague" : ORAN
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Burns : SINGES
8
Spread : SETOUT
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Lodge or quarter : STOW
10
Chaplin's widow : OONA
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Companion of Le Bourget : ORLY
12
Brat Farrar's creator : TEY
14
Famed experimenter with radio waves : MARCONI
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Composer Copland : AARON
22
Parseghian of coaching fame : ARA
25
Timer button : RESET
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Poet Sitwell : EDITH
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"À votre ___!" : SANTE
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One who transmits: Abbr. : SDR
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Excites : HEATS
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Beethoven's "Für ___" : ELISE
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Ate in style : DINED
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Reply to a ques. : ANS
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Idle chatter : GAB
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Red fruit of the wintergreen : TEABERRY
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Devastation : HAVOC
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Eager to rival : EMULOUS
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Ossuary : URN
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Architectural ornaments : GUTTAE
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Matrix of a cell : STROMA
50
What Daphne became : LAUREL
53
Valuation : RATE
54
Smell ___ (be suspicious) : ARAT
55
"Bus Stop" playwright : INGE
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Cupid, to Agamemnon : EROS
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Nothing, to Pedro : NADA
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Gin : TRAP
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Strong longings : YENS
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Erhard's therapy : EST

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 6 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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