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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, February 9, 1991

17-Across : Soil-management expert

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F H J Q W X Y }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 35.0 Grid has duplicate clues.
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,068
Across
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A pueblo dweller : ZUNI
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A top U.S. admiral in W.W. II : STARK
10
Oboist Goossens : LEON
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Pumping material : IRON
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Shinto gateway : TORII
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Grendel in "Beowulf," e.g. : OGRE
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Soil-management expert : AGRONOMIST
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Carriage : MIEN
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Support for Ben Shahn : EASEL
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French painter of battle scenes : DETAILLE
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Type of grape : IVES
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Divided : RENT
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Roman chapel : SISTINE
29
One of the vitamin B complex : NIACIN
33
Port of old Spain : PALOS
34
Young Turk : REBEL
37
Swiss canton : URI
38
Bass-baritone Scaria: 1838-86 : EMIL
39
Longed : PINED
40
Chickpea, e.g. : GRAM
41
Much-aired initials : NBC
42
Coloring solution : TONER
43
Valor; virtue : ARETE
44
Ugandan pest : TSETSE
46
Boxes, in a way : ENCASES
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Meal Kelso loved : OATS
50
Another pueblo dweller : TAOS
51
Spells or tricks in Ayr : CANTRIPS
55
Actuate : IMPEL
58
Tohubohu : RIOT
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Member of the "cavil-ry"? : COMPLAINER
62
Miler Andersson : ARNE
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Dote on : ADORE
64
Loser to Louis: 1941 : NOVA
65
Gyle or mum : BEER
66
Another French painter : LEGER
67
Brief look : GLIM
Down
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Pueblo dweller : ZIA
2
Yen : URGE
3
Ibsen heroine : NORA
4
Kind of alcohol : INOSITOL
5
Purloined : STOLEN
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Swift, e.g. : TOM
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Uninspiring : ARID
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Part of a step : RISER
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Birthed a feline : KITTENED
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City south of Los Angeles : LOMITA
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Krogh of Watergate : EGIL
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City on the Oka : OREL
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Goose of Hawaii : NENE
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Ben ___, Scottish peak : NEVIS
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Indigo : ANIL
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Finch : SERIN
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Depleted : SPENT
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Metrical feet : IAMBS
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Rasher : SLICE
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Preserves : CURES
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Incensed : IRATE
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City NW of Arles : NIMES
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Compass dir. : ENE
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Basque cap : BERET
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Like Donne's works : POETICAL
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Avaricious : GRASPING
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Ivan or Boris : TSAR
43
Pueblo dweller : ACOMA
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Reel : TOTTER
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Carpenter, at times : NAILER
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Kind of china : SPODE
51
Hermit or king : CRAB
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Early Irish peer : AIRE
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Canonical hour : NONE
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Portmanteau word : SMOG
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Organic compound : ENOL
57
Matthew's original name : LEVI
60
Before: Prefix : PRE
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Aries : RAM

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3 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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