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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Friday, March 16, 1984

48-Across : Stretching muscle

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { B F G J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,547
Across
1
Absolute ruler : TSAR
5
Rainbow flower : IRIS
9
Cacao and bumbo : TREES
14
Church part : APSE
15
Hawaiian goose : NENE
16
English novelist: 1814-84 : READE
17
Put off : POSTPONED
19
Eldritch : EERIE
20
Delete : ERASE
21
Cut a disk out of a metal plate : TREPANNED
23
Lets slacken : REMITS
25
Assignation : TRYST
26
Nucha or nuque : NAPE
28
Bowl or cannon : MORTAR
32
Channeled : CANALIZED
37
African lake : NYASA
38
One-pip domino : ACE
39
Dolly Varden, e.g. : TROUT
41
Windy City, for short : CHI
42
Impassive : STOIC
45
Preceded in time : ANTEDATED
48
Stretching muscle : TENSOR
50
Unit of measurement : YARD
51
Mountain nymph : OREAD
54
Cute marsupials : KOALAS
58
A bursting inward : IMPLOSION
62
Musical works : OPERA
63
Italy's chief financial center : MILAN
64
Fish used in genetic research : SWORDTAIL
66
La ___, Argentine port : PLATA
67
Mother of Apollo : LETO
68
Pile Pelion on ___ : OSSA
69
Units of loudness : SONES
70
Dash : ELAN
71
Woodwind : REED
Down
1
Slender candle : TAPER
2
Reproductive body : SPORE
3
Tea-growing area in India : ASSAM
4
Greek wine flavored with pine resin : RETSINA
5
Daughter of Cadmus : INO
6
Split : RENT
7
Lifeless : INERT
8
Feast at which the Haggadah is recited : SEDER
9
Betrayal : TREASON
10
Spaceman's finale : REENTRY
11
Receive for effort : EARN
12
___ Sedgwick, tragic heiress : EDIE
13
Germ : SEED
18
Flower part : PETAL
22
Poe's Arthur Gordon ___ : PYM
24
Point of land : SPIT
27
Book of the Bible : EZRA
29
Savoir-faire : TACT
30
County in N.C. : ASHE
31
Maraud : RAID
32
Mold : CAST
33
Greek peninsula : ACTE
34
Rialto light : NEON
35
Long period : EON
36
Obligation : DUTY
40
Tropical timber tree : TEAK
43
Set apart : ISOLATE
44
Cigars or crowns : CORONAS
46
Dickens character : DROOD
47
Electrician's device : ADAPTOR
49
___ gestae : RES
52
Passage : AISLE
53
Wooden pin : DOWEL
55
Hire : LEASE
56
Spring : ARISE
57
Greens : SALAD
58
Puckerels : IMPS
59
Grain sorghum : MILO
60
Marshall ___ : PLAN
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___ bene : NOTA
65
QB Jaworski : RON

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2 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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