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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, February 9, 1991

24-Down : Finch

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 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
5
A top U.S. admiral in W.W. II : STARK
10
Oboist Goossens : LEON
14
Pumping material : IRON
15
Shinto gateway : TORII
16
Grendel in "Beowulf," e.g. : OGRE
17
Soil-management expert : AGRONOMIST
19
Carriage : MIEN
20
Support for Ben Shahn : EASEL
21
French painter of battle scenes : DETAILLE
23
Type of grape : IVES
25
Divided : RENT
26
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
48
Meal Kelso loved : OATS
50
Another pueblo dweller : TAOS
51
Spells or tricks in Ayr : CANTRIPS
55
Actuate : IMPEL
58
Tohubohu : RIOT
59
Member of the "cavil-ry"? : COMPLAINER
62
Miler Andersson : ARNE
63
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
6
Swift, e.g. : TOM
7
Uninspiring : ARID
8
Part of a step : RISER
9
Birthed a feline : KITTENED
10
City south of Los Angeles : LOMITA
11
Krogh of Watergate : EGIL
12
City on the Oka : OREL
13
Goose of Hawaii : NENE
18
Ben ___, Scottish peak : NEVIS
22
Indigo : ANIL
24
Finch : SERIN
26
Depleted : SPENT
27
Metrical feet : IAMBS
28
Rasher : SLICE
30
Preserves : CURES
31
Incensed : IRATE
32
City NW of Arles : NIMES
35
Compass dir. : ENE
36
Basque cap : BERET
39
Like Donne's works : POETICAL
40
Avaricious : GRASPING
42
Ivan or Boris : TSAR
43
Pueblo dweller : ACOMA
45
Reel : TOTTER
47
Carpenter, at times : NAILER
49
Kind of china : SPODE
51
Hermit or king : CRAB
52
Early Irish peer : AIRE
53
Canonical hour : NONE
54
Portmanteau word : SMOG
56
Organic compound : ENOL
57
Matthew's original name : LEVI
60
Before: Prefix : PRE
61
Aries : RAM

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

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