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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, May 12, 1990

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 12, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 42.7
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,795
Across
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Prohibition : TABU
5
Phi Beta ___ : KAPPA
10
Energy source : ATOM
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Without cease : EVER
15
One of a wolf pack : UBOAT
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Bog : MIRE
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Contemplator of daffodils : WORDSWORTH
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Sicilian city : ENNA
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Cornered : ANGULAR
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Oblique : SLANTED
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Port of Kyushu : OITA
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Author Shusaku ___ : ENDO
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Battologize : REPEAT
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Was important : MATTERED
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At full speed, in poesy : AMAIN
35
Royal reception : LEVEE
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Outer: Prefix : EXO
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Mountain passes : COLS
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A Bolognese artist's works : RENIS
39
One of the Aleutians : ATTU
40
A saison : ETE
41
"Just the ___, ma'am": Sgt. Friday : FACTS
42
Graham and Kahn : OTTOS
43
Composer of "La Fiamma" : RESPIGHI
45
Shrimp ___ : CREOLE
46
Look after : TEND
47
Wild ox : ANOA
49
Shipworms : TEREDOS
52
City on Lake Victoria : ENTEBBE
57
Israeli coup at 52 Across : RAID
58
Relater of Revere's ride : LONGFELLOW
60
River in Ulster : ERNE
61
An actor in "Casablanca" : LORRE
62
Go on shank's ___ (walk) : MARE
63
Foretell, in Ayr : SPAE
64
Flight part : STAIR
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Eskers : OSAR
Down
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Pueblo-dwelling Indian : TEWA
2
"Sweet swan of ___!": Jonson : AVON
3
"Wozzeck" composer : BERG
4
Hindustani : URDU
5
Persian Gulf sheikdom : KUWAIT
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Verb in the space program : ABORT
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For, to Franco : POR
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Portions of butter : PATS
9
Olympic figures : ATHLETES
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___ honorable (an apology) : AMENDE
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Venetian master: 1518-94 : TINTORETTO
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Writer Sarah ___ Jewett : ORNE
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Honey drink : MEAD
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Ashcan School member : SLOAN
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Poker stake : ANTE
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Intellectual deficiency : AMENTIA
26
Kind of car or snake : RACER
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Show feeling : EMOTE
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Famed composer of church music : PALESTRINA
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Ice, in Erlangen : EIS
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Rara ___ : AVIS
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Praise highly : EXTOL
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Extinguish : DOUSE
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___ Walesa, Polish hero : LECH
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Andy and Ann : RAGDOLLS
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Goddess of infatuation : ATE
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Locate : FIND
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Hold forth : ORATE
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Carolina river : PEEDEE
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Bestow : CONFER
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Actress Pola of silents : NEGRI
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___ bien : TRES
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Lawman at the O.K. Corral : EARP
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Fuliginous substance : SOOT
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Actor Lincoln: 1889-1952 : ELMO
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Gil ___ de Santillane : BLAS
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Adriatic wind : BORA
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Pitcher : EWER
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"Right to bear arms" org. : NRA

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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