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Arthur S. Verdesca
Arthur S. Verdesca

New York Times, Thursday, April 13, 1989

39-Down : Theme of this puzzle

Author:
Arthur S. Verdesca
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
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. 14,401
Across
1
Charge : COST
5
What inspired Watt : STEAM
10
Unit of Zulu warriors : IMPI
14
Abnormal craving to eat chalk, etc. : PICA
15
O'Hara's "___ to Live" : ARAGE
16
Mend : DARN
17
Anchovy sauce : ALEC
18
Lac or elemi : RESIN
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Wallet stuffers : ONES
20
No way! : NOTONYOURLIFE
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High ___ kite : ASA
25
Adherent : IST
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Fall bloomer : ASTER
27
Get outa here! : SCRAM
29
Mite : DRAM
32
Women's service org. : ORT
33
Hurt : PAIN
34
Discussed terms : TREATED
37
No way! : NOTBYANYMEANS
41
Guess : SURMISE
42
Painter Guido : RENI
44
Hiatus : GAP
47
Countersink : REAM
48
Purple : REGAL
49
"Salome," e.g. : OPERA
51
Spire tip : EPI
53
Uncouth person : APE
54
No way! : NOTINTHELEAST
59
Auspices : EGIS
60
Assailed : HADAT
61
Bound : TIED
64
Neural network : RETE
65
Part of a decathlon : EVENT
66
Superior : AONE
67
Witnessed : SEEN
68
Darling person in "Peter Pan" : WENDY
69
Plague : GNAW
Down
1
Important pers. on April 15 : CPA
2
Midnight fluid : OIL
3
Creation of Ernest Lehman : SCENARIO
4
Snack in Sonora : TACO
5
Eclipse cycle : SAROS
6
"Last Case" sleuth : TRENT
7
Duck soup : EASY
8
Money-changing allowance : AGIO
9
Slender or small, in Savoie : MENU
10
Baalim : IDOLS
11
Algonquian spirit : MANITO
12
Choose above others : PREFER
13
Magazine stuffer : INSERT
21
Comedian Conway : TIM
22
Ouida : RAMEE
23
Cleo's killer : ASP
24
CAT, e.g. : SCAN
28
Formicary dwellers : ANTS
29
Uniform cloth : DENIM
30
Guitarfish : RAYS
31
"Don't throw bouquets ___" : ATME
34
Sidon's colony: 15th-century B.C. : TYRE
35
Nicaraguan native : RAMA
36
Face fear : DARE
38
Russian gale : BURAN
39
Theme of this puzzle : NEGATION
40
Sudden bite : SNAP
43
O'Neill drama: 1917 : ILE
44
Dead ducks : GONERS
45
Highest point : APOGEE
46
Little : PETITE
48
Creek : RIA
50
Gone up : RISEN
51
Large antelope : ELAND
52
Trivial : PETTY
55
Strength : THEW
56
Possess : HAVE
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Utopia : EDEN
58
Hart : STAG
62
She reigned in Spain : ENA
63
Kind of line : DEW

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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