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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, January 24, 1987

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 26.6
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,591
Across
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Brace : SHORE
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Packet, e.g. : SHIP
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Attend : HEED
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Kind of intelligence : NAVAL
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Rent : TORE
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Capp of comics : ANDY
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Spiel : ORATE
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Conductor : ELECTRODE
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Old word of woe : WELLAWAY
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Spot for the early Mets : CELLAR
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Article : ITEM
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A condiment in Calabria : SALE
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Architectural band : TAENIA
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What stuffed shirts stand on : CEREMONY
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Next up : ONDECK
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Big African antelope : ORYX
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He wrote "The Assignation" : POE
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Bit of candy : KISS
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Andress film: 1965 : SHE
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Leningrad's river : NEVA
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Compass dir. : ESE
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One of the Aleutians : ATKA
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Cordwood measures : STERES
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A mistress of Charles II : NELLGWYN
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Shade of blue : COBALT
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Diva Mills : ERIE
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___ grapes : SOUR
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Pollen container : ANTHER
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Evaluate : APPRAISE
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St. Teresa was one : CARMELITE
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Danube, to Caesar : ISTER
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Sortita, e.g. : ARIA
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Black : EBON
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Pelts : SKINS
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Consign to the Devil : DAMN
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Prohibition : DONT
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Flavor : TASTE
Down
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Author C. P. ___ : SNOW
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Jack rabbit, e.g. : HARE
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Ellipse : OVAL
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Cross-ropes on vessels' shrouds : RATLINES
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School of Greek philosophers : ELEATIC
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A means of power : STEAM
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Sacred : HOLY
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Rage : IRE
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Nocturnal piglike animal : PECCARY
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Site of the famed Apollo Theatre : HARLEM
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Chemical compound : ENOL
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Mussolini's daughter : EDDA
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"Your Erroneous Zones" author : DYER
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Communication service : TELEX
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Phthisical : WEAK
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Hebrew vowel point : SERE
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Sign : TOKEN
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Aromatic herb : ANISE
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Lincoln's late cousin : EDSEL
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He wrote "Gambling": 1929 : COHAN
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" ... Mahagonny" is one : OPERA
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Stone ware : NOVEL
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Leavening : YEAST
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One of the Inner Hebrides : SKYE
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Home of the Cornhuskers : NEBRASKA
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Concur : AGREE
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Rapidly rotated : TWIRLED
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Old English bard : SCOP
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Cook customer : TOURIST
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___ Caves, Nev. : LEHMAN
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Exhausted : SPENT
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Pt. of U.S.M.A. : ACAD
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Old capital of Japan : NARA
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Purfle : TRIM
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Like ___ of bricks : ATON
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"___ to laugh": Pinero : ITIS
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Remitted : SENT
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Gaelic : ERSE
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Nigerian people : IBO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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