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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, January 16, 1988

48-Across : ___ de Balzac

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q V W }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 13,948
Across
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Kind of jazz singing : SCAT
5
Bower : ARBOR
10
Spotted : PIED
14
Nobelist for Peace: 1984 : TUTU
15
Muster : RAISE
16
Architectural pier : ANTA
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Indigenous : ABORIGINAL
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Former autocrat : TSAR
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Far Eastern capital : RANGOON
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Unified whole : GESTALT
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Pension : INN
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Small barracuda : SENNET
25
Scuttle : HOD
27
Taffrail's locale : AFT
29
One of the Marianas : TINIAN
32
Town near Burns's birthplace : AYR
33
___ Bator : ULAN
35
Sacred song : PSALM
36
Depository : URN
37
Ineffective : STERILE
39
Karbi : BEE
40
Pool-table cloth : BAIZE
42
Type of mackerel : ATKA
43
Fiat ___ : LUX
44
Protract : EXTEND
46
Rent : LET
47
Ed Kranepool was one : MET
48
___ de Balzac : HONORE
50
Nigerian language : IBO
52
Pinpoint : ISOLATE
54
Burdensome : ONEROUS
58
Mozart's "___ fan tutte" : COSI
59
Like the yeti : ABOMINABLE
61
What diaskeuasts do : EDIT
62
Turkish river : GEDIZ
63
Only : LONE
64
Make an incised mark : RASE
65
Blithen : ELATE
66
Phocid : SEAL
Down
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Acrab or Acrux : STAR
2
Cask, in Córdoba : CUBA
3
Egyptian solar symbol : ATON
4
Swollen : TURGID
5
The paper nautilus : ARGONAUT
6
Play based on a Maugham story : RAIN
7
Crib : BIN
8
Old Mo. language : OSAGE
9
Yield : RELENT
10
Clogs' kin : PATTENS
11
Like edacious people : INSATIABLE
12
Catchall abbr. : ETAL
13
Flash : DART
18
Plato dialogue : ION
22
Becassine : SNIPE
24
Shock : STARTLE
25
Coney : HYRAX
26
Disease caught from birds : ORNITHOSIS
28
Dog's bane : FLEA
30
Eskimo language : ALEUT
31
Land of Enchantment: Abbr. : NMEX
32
Tributary of the Seine : AUBE
34
Goddess of victory : NIKE
37
Medicinal dried leaves : SENNA
38
Bring under Roman influence : LATINIZE
41
A source of aluminum : ZEOLITE
45
Second childhood : DOTAGE
47
Standards of conduct : MORALS
49
Wat Tyler was one : REBEL
51
Artist Shahn : BEN
52
Bakery aide : ICER
53
Beginning faro card : SODA
54
Disregard : OMIT
55
Szopelka, e.g. : OBOE
56
Cubitus : ULNA
57
Blind a falcon : SEEL
60
Room in a harem : ODA

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4 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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