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Arthur S. Verdesca
Arthur S. Verdesca

New York Times, Wednesday, July 22, 1992

Author:
Arthur S. Verdesca
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 24.1
Arthur S. Verdesca has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 14 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,597
Across
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Private sch. : ACAD
5
A leader to the Promised Land : CALEB
10
Sagan or Sandburg : CARL
14
About : SOME
15
Wind: Comb. form : ANEMO
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Corolla petals : ALAE
17
Fathoms : SOUNDSTHEDEPTHS
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Cavalry horse : TROOPER
21
Lawn cover : GRASS
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"___ bien!" : TRES
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Longfellow's bell town : ATRI
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More viscous : ROPIER
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Windward's opposite : ALEE
29
___ tree (cornered) : UPA
32
Actress Moran : ERIN
33
Dark hues, to poets : EBONS
34
Marino or Pedro : SAN
35
Water between N.Y. and Conn. : LONGISLANDSOUND
39
Well contents : INK
40
Clamor : NOISE
41
Roof ornament : VANE
42
Artfully shy : COY
43
Love too fondly : DOTE
44
Inscribed pillars : STELES
46
Locate : SITE
47
Latin lad : PUER
48
Ferber novel : SOBIG
51
Unpredictable : ERRATIC
54
Rodgers and Hammerstein show : THESOUNDOFMUSIC
58
Some paintings : OILS
59
Trap in a springe : NOOSE
60
Pealed : RANG
61
Many: Comb. form : POLY
62
Type of forces : ARMED
63
Hot times in Paris : ETES
Down
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Onager : ASS
2
Rail bird : COOT
3
Asian river : AMUR
4
Standing for : DENOTING
5
Wyo. city : CASPER
6
Feeds the pot : ANTES
7
Glassware oven : LEHR
8
Sandy's uncle : EME
9
Person, to a Brit : BOD
10
Blue Grotto locale : CAPRI
11
Utah resort : ALTA
12
Fall yells : RAHS
13
Not so much : LESS
18
Dante illustrator : DORE
19
Exit : EGRESS
23
Without peer : ALONE
24
Watch over : TEND
25
Vestige : RELIC
26
U. of Maine site : ORONO
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Comedian Lee : PINKY
28
Humble : ABASE
29
Ordinary : USUAL
30
Velvetlike cloth : PANNE
31
Vicuña's habitat : ANDES
33
Flower : ELITE
36
Part of ROY G BIV : INDIGO
37
Chimney dirt : SOOT
38
Musical introduction : OVERTURE
44
Rode the waves : SURFED
45
Cooperating group : TEAM
46
Actress Spacek : SISSY
47
What people speak : PROSE
48
Octagonal sign : STOP
49
Pa. river : OHIO
50
Brontë pseudonym : BELL
51
Land conquered by Saul : EDOM
52
"But every woman ___ heart a rake": Pope : ISAT
53
French movies : CINE
55
Spenser heroine : UNA
56
And not : NOR
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Syst. of measurement : CGS

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