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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Monday, August 6, 1990

44-Across : Hognose snakes

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { B J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 4
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,881
Across
1
North African city : ORAN
5
"Per ardua ad ___," R.A.F. motto : ASTRA
10
Yawn : GAPE
14
Erstwhile White House pet : FALA
15
Wise preceder : OTHER
16
Not written : ORAL
17
Chekhov play : THETHREESISTERS
20
Made tracks : SCOOTED
21
Pal Joey's creator : OHARA
22
Scarlett's terrain : TARA
23
Federal agcy. : IRS
24
Steps over fences : STILES
28
Stripped : NUDE
30
Frighten with threats : COW
33
Mushroom : MOREL
34
Teen-ager's plight : ACNE
35
Mitigate : EASE
36
Forster novel : APASSAGETOINDIA
39
Painter Magritte : RENE
40
Scram! : SHOO
41
African republic : NIGER
42
Prefix with dent or sect : TRI
43
Unhearing : DEAF
44
Hognose snakes : ADDERS
45
Creek : RIA
46
Memorable Surrealist : DALI
48
Fountain drinks : SODAS
51
Obscure riddles : ENIGMAS
55
O'Neill play : THEICEMANCOMETH
59
Legal right : LIEN
60
Connect again : RETIE
61
Manitoban Indian : CREE
62
Bungler's apology : OOPS
63
Hardwood trees : ASHES
64
Facsimile : COPY
Down
1
Recurrently, to Donne : OFT
2
Yale Bowl sounds : RAHS
3
A Waugh : ALEC
4
Intl. pact : NATO
5
Arterial ducts : AORTAS
6
Bum ___ (bad advice) : STEER
7
Auden poem : THEDANCEOFDEATH
8
Legal thing : RES
9
Onassis nickname : ARI
10
Barbarians : GOTHS
11
Neighborhood : AREA
12
Henry VIII's Catherine : PARR
13
Designer Schiaparelli : ELSA
18
Tourists' stopovers : HOTELS
19
Lesion : SORE
23
Thought: Comb. form : IDEO
24
Sting : SMART
25
Barfly : TOPER
26
Tabriz native : IRANI
27
___-majesté : LESE
29
Biblical preposition : UNTO
30
Beg : CADGE
31
Willow tree : OSIER
32
Has on : WEARS
34
Ottoman bigwig : AGHA
35
Geraint's wife : ENID
37
On the Baltic : ASEA
38
Shade of blue : INDIGO
43
Record : DISC
44
"___ Restaurant," 1969 film : ALICES
45
Cloudbursts : RAINS
47
Laurie or Rooney : ANNIE
48
Town west of Caen : STLO
49
Mississippi feeder : OHIO
50
Unfathomable : DEEP
52
MC doubled : MMCC
53
Prefix with drome : AERO
54
Short distance : STEP
56
NOW goal : ERA
57
My: Fr. : MES
58
Attention-getting call : HEY

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