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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Wednesday, March 16, 1988

40-Across : King with a golden touch

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { K Q W X }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,008
Across
1
U.S. priest-poet John Banister ___ : TABB
5
Channel changer : DIAL
9
"Celtic Twilight" author : YEATS
14
Cosmetic plant : ALOE
15
Sea eagle : ERNE
16
Brass or pewter : ALLOY
17
Irish moss : CARRAGEEN
19
Synthetic fabric : NYLON
20
Wordsworth's " ... ___ Abbey" : TINTERN
21
French forest : ARGONNE
23
S-shaped molding : OGEE
24
Heine's "___ Troll" : ATTA
25
Charlotte ___, V.I. : AMALIE
28
Musical mode : JAZZ
30
The way, in Chinese : TAO
33
Apertures : RENTS
34
Denmark's ___ Islands : FAROE
35
Keats subject : URN
36
Mild expletive : RATS
37
Gambol : CAPER
38
"Trinity" author : URIS
39
He wrote "The College Widow" : ADE
40
King with a golden touch : MIDAS
41
Green chalcedony : PRASE
42
Dry, as champagne : SEC
43
Yemeni port : ADEN
44
Transfer a lease : SUBLET
45
That Ferrara family : ESTE
47
Thomas ___ Edison : ALVA
48
What Muses do : INSPIRE
51
Wreak destruction, in Dixie : RUINATE
55
Flowers for a señorita : ROSAS
56
Of Greek and Roman antiquity : CLASSICAL
58
Presses : IRONS
59
Port of Cork : COBH
60
Greek letter : ZETA
61
Twilled fabric : SERGE
62
Simple : EASY
63
Garden in Genesis : EDEN
Down
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Savoir-faire : TACT
2
Jai ___ : ALAI
3
Née : BORN
4
Writer Brecht and namesakes : BERTOLTS
5
Academic distinction : DEGREE
6
Byzantine empress : IRENE
7
One, to Burns : ANE
8
Chanteuse Horne : LENA
9
Chinese river : YANGTZE
10
Author of "The Castel of Helth" : ELYOT
11
Like health foods : ALLNATURAL
12
Fast Jet : TOON
13
"Auld Lang ___" : SYNE
18
Auspices : AEGIS
22
Beard eraser : RAZOR
25
Tapestry : ARRAS
26
Fort ___, Fla. : MEADE
27
Previous incumbent : ANTECESSOR
28
Kind of varnish : JAPAN
29
A lover of Aphrodite : ARES
31
Spring : ARISE
32
Assault : ONSET
34
Grow dim : FADE
37
Fruit drink : CIDER
38
Citify : URBANIZE
40
"La Desserte" painter : MATISSE
41
Painter ___ de Chavannes : PUVIS
44
Like partly melted snow : SLUSHY
46
Smack-dab : SPANG
47
Mideastern people : ARABS
48
Zeus's messenger : IRIS
49
The ___, Thames estuary sandbank : NORE
50
Behold, to Cicero : ECCE
52
Made a perfect serve : ACED
53
London art gallery : TATE
54
Verve : ELAN
57
Mauna ___ : LOA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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