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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, August 23, 1986

63-Across : Dante's foes

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J W }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 37.4
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,437
Across
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Cacholong : OPAL
5
Impofo's kin : ORYX
9
Nitrogen : AZOTE
14
Favus : TILE
15
What Silas Lapham did : ROSE
16
Moist meadows : VEGAS
17
Orejón, e.g. : INCA
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Arabian port : ADEN
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Sen. Glenn's wife : ANNIE
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Supporting plank : SKID
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Essence used in cologne : NEROLIOIL
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Japan's Sea of ___ : BINGO
25
Rochet's relative : ALB
26
Vitrified ceramic wares : CHINAS
28
Fords : PASSINGS
33
Songwriter Carmichael : HOAGY
34
Large Argentine fox : EIRA
35
Nimbus : AURA
36
Computer gate : AND
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Heart contraction : SYSTOLE
40
Reckoning of a sort : TAB
41
Episcopal jurisdictions : SEES
43
Rhine feeder : AARE
44
Complement of verso : RECTO
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Special cult : MYSTIQUE
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Red Bordeaux : CLARET
49
Chit : IOU
50
Greek island : THERA
51
Trimming : GARNITURE
55
Initials for certain redcoats : RCMP
58
Blue-green shade : CAPRI
59
Coloratura Mills : ERIE
60
Image of a sort : IKON
61
Bewildered : ATSEA
62
Pentagon pinups : MAPS
63
Dante's foes : NERI
64
Spinose structure : THORN
65
Away from the wind : ALEE
66
Rictus : GRIN
Down
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Birdsong of the N.B.A. : OTIS
2
Rock-garden flower : PINK
3
Controversial Athenian general : ALCIBIADES
4
Kind of question : LEADING
5
Some of the pongids : ORANGS
6
Copland work : RODEO
7
Nieuport's river : YSER
8
Type of phobia : XENO
9
Profits : AVAILS
10
Hawthorne heroine : ZENOBIA
11
Every, in Asti : OGNI
12
Cauda : TAIL
13
Ship's course : ESE
22
___ Mountains, Utah : LASAL
24
Refusals : NAYS
26
Crevasse : CHASM
27
Hybla product : HONEY
28
Clown, in Cannes : PITRE
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Indonesia's ___ Islands : AROE
30
European bird : NUTCRACKER
31
Barred frame : GRATE
32
Sandal strap : SABOT
34
Son-in-law of Elon : ESAU
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River of Sonora : YAQUI
39
Perry's creator : ERLE
42
Swizzle stick : STIRRER
45
Article of adornment : EARRING
47
Heraclitus was one : IONIAN
48
Jack, e.g. : CHEESE
50
Pepper-pot soup ingredient : TRIPE
51
City of the Philistines : GATH
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Lhasa ___ : APSO
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Port of Ghana : TEMA
54
River to the Caspian : URAL
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Memento ___ (reminder of mortality) : MORI
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Nabokov novel : PNIN
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Hoist an anchor, in a way : CAT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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