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Valerie Meunier
Valerie Meunier

New York Times, Tuesday, March 18, 1980

41-Down : Desert

Author:
Meunier
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 3, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Valerie Meunier has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Meunier is an alias for Valerie Meunier.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,088
Across
1
Trifles : FIGS
5
Row : TIER
9
___ of war : SLOOP
14
Booty : LOOT
15
Manxman's milieu : ISLE
16
Brownish gray : TAUPE
17
Surreptitiously : UNDERTHECOUNTER
20
Greet : HAIL
21
C.P.A.'s concerns : NOS
22
Cavil : CARP
23
Tease : NEEDLE
25
Quantity: Abbr. : AMT
26
Equal: Fr. : EGAL
27
Benefit; use : AVAIL
28
G.P.'s profession : MED
30
Summer, in Soissons : ETE
31
Ordered : BADE
32
Overturn : UPEND
34
Master-Johnson subject : SEX
35
Canberra country : DOWNUNDER
39
Antipollution org. : EPA
42
Trademark : BRAND
43
Collection of Old Norse poetry : EDDA
47
Pen point : NIB
48
Sail : JIB
49
Pungs : SLEDS
50
Where to use a wedge : TRAP
52
Natural ___ : GAS
54
Bilks : CHEATS
55
Raja's wife : RANI
56
F.D.R.'s successor : HST
57
Lease : RENT
58
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Coastline : SHORE
64
"___ Diary": Twain : EVES
65
Otherwise : ELSE
66
Aromatic herb : TANSY
67
Collector's item : DEBT
68
Stained : DYED
Down
1
Sniffles plus : FLU
2
Charged particle : ION
3
Deity : GODHEAD
4
Firmed up : STEADIED
5
Film producer's decision : TITLE
6
Ending for boor or book : ISH
7
Soprano Mauti-Nunziata of the Met : ELENA
8
Praise an applicant : RECOMMEND
9
After PQR : STU
10
Weapon for Ahab : LANCE
11
Power failures : OUTAGES
12
Emulate a b.t.o. : OPERATE
13
Confuse : PERPLEX
18
Moon feature : RILL
19
Belgian seaport : OSTEND
23
Snatch : NAB
24
Fräulein Braun : EVA
29
Letters for Ike : DDE
32
Dauntless despite discomfiture : UNABASHED
33
"Abel was I ere I saw Cain," e.g. : PUN
36
Follower of a prep. : OBJ
37
Great architect : WRIGHT
38
Yielded : RELENTED
39
Commit : ENTRUST
40
Voracious S.A. fish : PIRANHA
41
Desert : ABANDON
44
Fatal : DEATHLY
45
Banned pesticide : DDT
46
Perverse person : ASS
49
Home of Torre's men : SHEA
51
Breakwaters : PIERS
53
Carlton or Martin : STEVE
54
Peak : CREST
59
Juan Carlos, e.g. : REY
60
Arachnid's creation : WEB
61
Compass direction : ESE
62
Scarlet : RED

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