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Ernie Furtado
Ernie Furtado

New York Times, Thursday, November 17, 1988

45-Across : Prince Valiant's son

Author:
Ernie Furtado
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { G Q W X }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Ernie Furtado has 18 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 12 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,254
Across
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Designate : TAB
4
Dalton formerly of "Falcon Crest" : ABBY
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Hidden explosive : MINE
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A Guthrie : ARLO
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Green tint : NILE
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Steve Cram, e.g. : MILER
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Spirit of the sea : DAVYJONES
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More slippery : ICIER
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Firefighters' instruments : ALIDADES
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Geological ridges : ESKERS
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Cool cat's cry : MAN
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Aversion : DISTASTE
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___-de-chaussée (ground floor) : REZ
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More nimble : SPRYER
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Meter preceder : ALTI
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Exude : EMIT
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Miller's "___ the Fall" : AFTER
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Whitney, to Dionne : NIECE
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Pindar product : ODE
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Measure of capacity : LITER
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Nurses in the Orient : AMAHS
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Standard : NORM
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Beatty and Rorem : NEDS
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Babbled : PRATED
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Prince Valiant's son : ARN
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Make new again : RENOVATE
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Pod preceder : TRI
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Like some cells : PADDED
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Do slaloms : INANDOUT
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Morning sound : ALARM
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Man in the street : JOEDOAKES
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Bustles : TODOS
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Other: Comb. form : ALLO
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"___ and the Swan": Yeats : LEDA
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Fencing weapon : EPEE
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A loser to Louis : BAER
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Hero chaser : INE
Down
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Refrain syllables : TRALA
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Sergeant York : ALVIN
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First Secretary of Transportation : BOYD
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Coat metal : ANODIZE
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Stems of hops : BINES
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Sanctified : BLEST
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Sandburg's "The People, ___" : YES
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Loaded cocktail : MICKEYFINN
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Netter Nastase : ILIE
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At no time, to bards : NEER
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Makes a boo-boo : ERRS
12
First donor? : ADAM
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Co-Nobelist in Literature: 1904 : MISTRAL
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Ornamental stone : JADE
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Clairvoyance letters : ESP
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Late bloomer : ASTER
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Cousin of John Doe : RICHARDROE
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Major chaser : ETTE
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Willis of N.B.A. fame : REED
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Miscellany : ANA
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Flaccid : LIMP
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Kind of drop : TEAR
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"___ Cane" : MONDO
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Knot-tying words : IDO
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Els, e.g. : RRS
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Respects : ESTEEMS
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Toro tempter : MATADOR
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Goal : END
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Porter's Sweeney : RENO
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Four-stringed instrument : VIOLA
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Anoint, once : ANELE
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Subway must : TOKEN
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___ la Paix : RUEDE
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"___ girl!" : ITSA
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Top of the monk : PATE
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Poorly proportioned : ALOP
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Miami's county : DADE
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Salvador of art : DALI
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Part of a boxer's arsenal : JAB

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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