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Bert Storey
Bert Storey

For Patriots' Day

New York Times, Sunday, April 16, 1944

73-Across : Kidnap.

Author:
Bert Storey
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 176, Blocks: 76, Avg Word Len: 5.15, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 666 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 152, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 75, Grid flow: 31.3
Bert Storey has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1944, The New York TimesNo. 114
Across
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Lt. Gen. Alexander Vandegrift. : MARINE
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Bomb-shattered invasion port. : ANTWERP
14
Underground activity in France. : SABOTAGE
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Unethical. : AMORAL
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State whose capital is Nazi party birthplace. : BAVARIA
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Heroine of "Measure for Measure." : ISABELLA
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Post-war problem for Uncle Sam. : DEMOBILIZATION
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Commander of women marines. : STREETER
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Prime Minister Soheily's country. : IRAN
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Coast town of Honshu. : HAGI
30
Ensign: Abbr. : ENS
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Waif. : STRAY
32
Belgian commune. : HAL
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Babylonian moon-god. : SIN
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Mountain range between France and Switzerland. : JURA
35
Sea eagle. : ERN
36
Table rarity. : STEAK
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Biological factor. : GENE
38
Resinous Mexican pine. : OCOTE
40
U. S. Chief of Naval Operations. : KING
42
Eddying. : ASWIRL
44
Four-footed animal. : BEAST
45
Indian tribe. : NAVAHO
47
Nazi general formerly in Leningrad battle area. : LEEB
49
Troubles, used impersonally. : AILS
50
Emblem of Louis XIV of France. : SUN
51
Without reason. : SURD
53
Girl changed into spider. : ARACHNE
55
What keeps a glider aloft. : UPDRAFT
59
Assemblage. : MASS
62
Deficit. : DEBT
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Unusually excellent. : RARE
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Threadlike swimming organs. : FLAGELLA
66
Go: Latin. : ITE
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Capital of Fiji. : SUVA
68
Covering of brain. : DURA
69
Couple. : BRACE
70
Geological time division. : EON
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Censure harshly. : SLATE
73
Kidnap. : ABDUCT
75
Lumber State. : MAINE
76
One of President Inonu's countrymen. : TURK
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Marmalade tree. : SAPOTE
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Axis satellite nation capital. : BUCHAREST
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Tenant. : RENTEE
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But. : ONLY
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River draining Ruhr valley. : RHINE
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Arthurian knight who championed Lady Linet. : GARETH
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Prescribed task. : STINT
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Japanese song. : UTA
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Where Canea is. : CRETE
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Greek commune. : DEME
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The collective Asiatic countries. : EAST
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Impersonate. : ACT
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Author of The Circular Staircase. : RINEHART
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Capital of Yemen, Arabia. : SANA
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Feminine name. : ERMA
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To cut. : SNEE
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Where Maj. Gen. Key commands. : ICELAND
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Former capital of Lower Volga region. : SARATOV
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Captured Jap plane base on Marshalls. : MILI
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Squat. : SIT
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Mikolajczyk. : POLE
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Vital German dam wrecked by R. A. F. : EDER
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Military weapon used in aerial reconnaissance. : CAMERA
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Country recently deprived of U. S. oil. : SPAIN
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Source of unfounded Anglo-German peace rumor. : PRAVDA
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Albanian river draining Lake Ohrid. : DRIN
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Soft palate. : VELUM
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Jack rabbit. : HARE
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First Mayor of San Francisco, 1850. : GEARY
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Title conferred on brides. : MRS
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Famous 40-ton caravel. : NINA
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Uncle: Dial. : EME
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Semi-circle. : ARC
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African filling station. : OASIS
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Drink made from Chinese "gunpowder." : TEA
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Cover the bet, at dice. : FADE
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Gulf forming arm of Arabian Sea. : OMAN
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First name of Hindu leader. : MOHANDAS
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Capital of South Australia. : ADELAIDE
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Dynasty ruling Pergamum, 283–133 B. C. : ATTALID
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Muse of astronomy. : URANIA
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Spartan conqueror of Athens, circa 405 B. C. : LYSANDER
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Perpetrators of Lidice massacre. : GESTAPO
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Hillsman of western Bengal. : SANTAL
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President of U. S., 1809–17. : MADISON
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Celebrator of Patriots' Day, April 19. : AMERICA
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Russian dynasty, 1613–1917. : ROMANOV
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Backbone of armament industry. : IRON
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Bavarian tributary of Danube. : NAB
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___ Root. : ELIHU
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Lady's waiting maid. : ABIGAIL
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Hitlerian dupe. : NAZI
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D. E. Lilienthal's project. : TVA
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Fire extinguisher. : WATER
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Greek poetess. : ERINNA
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President who succeeded Cerda. : RIOS
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Polish title. : PAN
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Relative status quints. : SISTERS
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Starry. : ASTRAL
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Router of the Canaanites, in Judges. : BARAK
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Be ruled by. : OBEY
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Wind ___. : TEE
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Rose of Sharon. : ALTHEA
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Collects. : GLEANS
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Tiny auricle. : EARLET
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Adventure. : LARK
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Phonograph needle. : STILE
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Fast driver. : JEHU
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Bavarian river emptying into Elbe. : EGER
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Porker. : SWINE
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Style of painting. : GENRE
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Soviet News Agency. : TASS
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Adroit. : NEAT
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African region: Arabian name. : SAHRA
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U. S. tennis champion, 1937–38. : BUDGE
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Turkish army corps. : ORDU
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Member of "Little War Cabinet." : BARUCH
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Typewriter key. : SPACER
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Hindu deity. : DEVA
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Spanish naval base in Mediterranean. : CARTAGENA
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Prussian lancer: Var. : ULAN
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Islands, base of 11th Air Force. : ALEUTIAN
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City of Lilies. : FLORENCE
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Small land dreadnaught. : TANKETTE
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New U. S. battleship of Iowa class. : MISSOURI
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Where Admiral Ingersoll commands. : ATLANTIC
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Mars. : SEAPLANE
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Sinclair Lewis novel, 1922. : BABBITT
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Waste. : FRITTER
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Platoon. : SET
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1922–1943. : DUCE
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Military depot. : BASE
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Knickknack. : TOY
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The color twine. : DUNE
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Mother: Fr. : MERE
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Block-buster "stuffing." : TNT
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Quixotically adventurous. : ERRANT
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Branched. : RAMATE
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Superlative suffix. : EST
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Mob. : HERD
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Ruhr city hit by Allied bombs. : HAMM
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Enslave. : CHAIN
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Undertook. : DARED
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Ketch common in the Levant. : SAIC
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Martha Finley's heroine. : ELSIE
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Unctuous. : SALVY
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Always. : EVER
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Monkey. : SIME
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Volplanes. : SOARS
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Probability. : ODDS
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Peril near Naples. : LAVA
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Eulogist. : PRAISER
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Medieval hero, owner of famous horse Bayard. : RINALDO
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Person's natural habitat. : ELEMENT
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Where Cernauti is. : RUMANIA
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Devoid of mind. : AMENTAL
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Wind over the Persian Gulf. : SHAMAL
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Burlesque. : PARODY
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Structural members. : ARCHES
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Rearing of a trained horse. : PESADE
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Morons. : AMENTS
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Hatching places for insect eggs. : NIDI
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Codfish. : GADID
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Capital of Sultan Sidi Mohammed's country. : RABAT
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Title of Haile Selassie. : NEGUS
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Of a S. Am. linguistic family. : ONAN
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Haul. : TOTE
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Smart quick blow. : FLIP
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Great Sea port, now Allied naval base. : ORAN
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Old Roman Army wing. : ALA
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Tease. : NAG
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Note in the gamut. : ELA
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Period. : ERA

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7 unique to this puzzle, 68 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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