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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Wednesday, June 5, 1985

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { F K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 33.3 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,993
Across
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Swarm : HORDE
6
Slightly open : AJAR
10
Sailors : TARS
14
"The ___," TV program : ATEAM
15
Columnist Barrett : RONA
16
Bass-baritone Scaria : EMIL
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Present occasion : NONCE
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Fruit integument : RIND
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Behave dejectedly : MOPE
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Resolute : DETERMINED
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Stay : PROP
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Surge of wind : GUST
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Potential : LATENT
26
Conqueror of Mexico : CORTES
30
Swelling : EDEMA
32
Moslem ruler : EMIR
33
Composer Vincent d' ___ : INDY
35
Particles : ATOMS
39
"St. Jerome" painter : DAVINCI
41
Moral : ETHICAL
43
"We have met the ___ ... ": O. H. Perry : ENEMY
44
Concern : CARE
46
City on Lake Biwa : OTSU
47
Big Bertha's birthplace : ESSEN
49
Deliberative body : SENATE
51
Dwarf tree : BONSAI
54
Desert fruit : DATE
56
"Little Things Mean ___," Kallen hit : ALOT
57
Have a wild time : TEARAROUND
63
Prong : TINE
64
Spicy taste : TANG
65
Eskimo house : IGLOO
66
"___ and out" : OVER
67
Last word of Mo.'s motto : ESTO
68
Cartoonist Bushmiller : ERNIE
69
Headland : NESS
70
Pumpernickels : RYES
71
Erects : REARS
Down
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It's on the watch : HAND
2
Nebraska City's county : OTOE
3
Lessee's payment : RENT
4
Freshwater fish : DACE
5
Come out : EMERGE
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Molding edge : ARRIS
7
Articulate : JOINTED
8
Queen in Swift's day : ANNE
9
Interweave : RADDLE
10
Enticement : TEMPTATION
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Con ___ (tenderly, maestro) : AMORE
12
City and college in Wis. : RIPON
13
Hibernated : SLEPT
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Euterpe's sphere : MUSIC
25
Chinese nurse : AMAH
26
Yield : CEDE
27
Arabian sultanate : OMAN
28
Split : RIVE
29
Periods of the academic year : TRIMESTERS
31
Henna user : DYER
34
Meticulous : NICE
36
Prefix denoting eight : OCTA
37
Nuts, sometimes : MAST
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Veer : SLUE
40
Polish river : NYSA
42
Integument : TESTA
45
Moderately slow movement in a symphony : ANDANTE
48
Aunt's role, at times : SITTER
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More uncanny : EERIER
51
Staff symbolic of office : BATON
52
A source of oil : OLIVE
53
Ides kin : NONES
55
Historic city in Greece : ARGOS
58
Simple : EASY
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Giant of folklore : OGRE
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Forearm bone : ULNA
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Black, in Brest : NOIR
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Mates of bucks : DOES

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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