Yeah, it was a bit of crosswordese that I wasn't really happy with, but I hoped the crosser would make it gettable. Do you think the clue would benefit from a quick addition of "(Var.)" to the end? I debated it when I was cluing it, but ended up not putting it because none of the suggested NYT clues had it, even though Wikipedia clearly shows it as ETH, with EDH3DOld English letter (Var.)[---] as an alternate spelling.