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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, March 28, 1992

57-Across : Adherents of a certain ascetic religion

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { K W X Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,481
Across
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Large S.A. rodent : PACA
5
Harpagon, e.g. : MISER
10
City of Iran : QUM
13
Its capital was Susa : ELAM
14
Cave, in poesy : ANTRE
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Cold wind of the Andes : PUNA
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___ avis : RARA
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Painter Wood : GRANT
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Milk, in Metz : LAIT
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Malt beverage : NEARBEER
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Old card game for two : ECARTE
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Haymow's locale : BARN
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Kind of group : SPLINTER
26
Black cuckoo : ANI
28
Oenone's mountain : IDA
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Strip of wood : SLAT
31
River emptying into Green Bay : MENOMINEE
34
"Cybele" author : OATES
38
Swot's milder kin : PREP
39
Boredom : ENNUI
41
Minim : IOTA
42
Fathered : SIRED
44
James Mason movie: 1947 : ODDMANOUT
46
Painter of "Trouville" : DUFY
48
Item for a shell : OAR
49
Connection : TIE
50
Scatter : DISPERSE
54
Rent : GASH
56
Summer, in Siena : ESTATE
57
Adherents of a certain ascetic religion : JAINISTS
61
"The ___ at eve ... ": Scott : STAG
62
Beaker's cousin : STEIN
64
Dancer-mime Parenti : NOEL
65
Granular snowfield : NEVE
66
Mother-of-pearl : NACRE
67
This novel's title means "rover" : OMOO
68
Modern art : ARE
69
Expelled : OUTED
70
Termitary, e.g. : NEST
Down
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Honey buzzard : PERN
2
Wings for an angelus : ALAE
3
Piton ring for fastening ropes : CARABINER
4
Town on the Tigris : AMARA
5
Physiologist François ___: 1783-1855 : MAGENDIE
6
Concerning : INRE
7
Rigel and Mira : STARS
8
Shore bird : ERN
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Narrate anew : RETELL
10
Part of a gallon : QUART
11
Form an entity : UNITE
12
"Stabat ___," noted hymn : MATER
15
Food staple in the tropics : PLANTAIN
20
Edge : BRIM
22
Genovese greeting : CIAO
25
False; sham : PSEUDO
26
Elec. units : AMPS
27
St. Philip ___ : NERI
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Irks : ANNOYS
32
Newspaper feature : OPEDPAGE
33
Object : END
35
Savory : TOOTHSOME
36
Small ornamental case : ETUI
37
Glut : SATE
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Fancied : IMAGINED
43
Song for two : DUET
45
___ Islands off Galway : ARAN
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City of the San Joachin valley : FRESNO
50
Dnepr feeder : DESNA
51
Ancient Danube : ISTER
52
See 30 Across : STAVE
53
Push out : EJECT
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Greek spy at Troy : SINON
58
River of Yorkshire : AIRE
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Anacreon's birthplace : TEOS
60
Niche : SLOT
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Kind of cross : TAU

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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