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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Thursday, February 20, 1986

15-Across : Peavey, e.g.

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { H K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,253
Across
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Organ of the retina : CONE
5
Saw : ADAGE
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Door-frame part : JAMB
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Profusion : RIOT
15
Peavey, e.g. : LEVER
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Spiny plant : ALOE
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Napoleonic island : ELBA
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Actor Maurice : EVANS
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Decant : POUR
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A condiment in Caen : SEL
21
Molière's "___ des Femmes" : ECOLE
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Wild-violet hybrid : PANSY
23
Drift : TREND
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High, craggy hill : TOR
26
Heavenly messenger : ANGEL
27
Breeding to improve good qualities : EUGENICS
30
Molasses, in Manchester : TREACLE
33
Language of the Balearics : CATALAN
38
Grand-trunk arteries : AORTAE
39
City SE of Fresno : TULARE
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Electromagnetic unit : OERSTED
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Supplied with oxygen : AERATED
43
Element of picture writing : IDEOGRAM
45
Left-hand page : VERSO
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To and ___ : FRO
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Author of "Dead Souls" : GOGOL
54
Tear-jerker : ONION
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Divert : AMUSE
57
Winglike structure : ALA
58
Humdinger : LULU
59
Show feeling : EMOTE
60
Long heroic poem : EPIC
61
Lover of Aphrodite : ARES
62
Trace : RELIC
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Field of granular snow : NEVE
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Old story : REDE
65
" ... what ___ do I raise": Bacon : ADUST
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___ Scott decision : DRED
Down
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Summit : CREST
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Down-below seaman : OILER
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Exalted : NOBLE
4
Greek letter : ETA
5
A Waugh : ALEC
6
Worshiper : DEVOTEE
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Arthur's retreat : AVALON
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Characteristic of a group : GENERIC
9
Hesitations on a podium : ERS
10
Hard, brilliant varnish : JAPAN
11
Forward : ALONG
12
Swimmer in Alice's tears : MOUSE
13
Silicate gemstone : BERYL
21
Horace Mann's field : EDUCATION
22
Accomodation for cattle : PASTURAGE
24
___-foot oil : NEATS
28
Glowing coal, in Yorkshire : GLEED
29
Provide requirements : CATER
30
The way, in Chinese philosophy : TAO
31
Fish eggs : ROE
32
Go astray : ERR
34
A place remembered : ALAMO
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Mariner's abbr. : LAT
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Exist : ARE
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Browning's "___ Bratts" : NED
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Ran down : DEFAMED
42
Tropical American rodents : AGOUTIS
44
Decorative bronze : ORMOLU
45
Of the palm or sole : VOLAR
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Habituate : ENURE
47
Agitated : RILED
48
Drench : SOUSE
51
Type of large clam : GAPER
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Miss Oyl : OLIVE
53
Spiked : LACED
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Religious group : SECT
59
Period of time : ERA
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Objective : END

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