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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, May 12, 1990

37-Across : Mountain passes

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 12, XRef: 1, 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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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,795
Across
1
Prohibition : TABU
5
Phi Beta ___ : KAPPA
10
Energy source : ATOM
14
Without cease : EVER
15
One of a wolf pack : UBOAT
16
Bog : MIRE
17
Contemplator of daffodils : WORDSWORTH
19
Sicilian city : ENNA
20
Cornered : ANGULAR
21
Oblique : SLANTED
23
Port of Kyushu : OITA
25
Author Shusaku ___ : ENDO
26
Battologize : REPEAT
30
Was important : MATTERED
34
At full speed, in poesy : AMAIN
35
Royal reception : LEVEE
36
Outer: Prefix : EXO
37
Mountain passes : COLS
38
A Bolognese artist's works : RENIS
39
One of the Aleutians : ATTU
40
A saison : ETE
41
"Just the ___, ma'am": Sgt. Friday : FACTS
42
Graham and Kahn : OTTOS
43
Composer of "La Fiamma" : RESPIGHI
45
Shrimp ___ : CREOLE
46
Look after : TEND
47
Wild ox : ANOA
49
Shipworms : TEREDOS
52
City on Lake Victoria : ENTEBBE
57
Israeli coup at 52 Across : RAID
58
Relater of Revere's ride : LONGFELLOW
60
River in Ulster : ERNE
61
An actor in "Casablanca" : LORRE
62
Go on shank's ___ (walk) : MARE
63
Foretell, in Ayr : SPAE
64
Flight part : STAIR
65
Eskers : OSAR
Down
1
Pueblo-dwelling Indian : TEWA
2
"Sweet swan of ___!": Jonson : AVON
3
"Wozzeck" composer : BERG
4
Hindustani : URDU
5
Persian Gulf sheikdom : KUWAIT
6
Verb in the space program : ABORT
7
For, to Franco : POR
8
Portions of butter : PATS
9
Olympic figures : ATHLETES
10
___ honorable (an apology) : AMENDE
11
Venetian master: 1518-94 : TINTORETTO
12
Writer Sarah ___ Jewett : ORNE
13
Honey drink : MEAD
18
Ashcan School member : SLOAN
22
Poker stake : ANTE
24
Intellectual deficiency : AMENTIA
26
Kind of car or snake : RACER
27
Show feeling : EMOTE
28
Famed composer of church music : PALESTRINA
29
Ice, in Erlangen : EIS
31
Rara ___ : AVIS
32
Praise highly : EXTOL
33
Extinguish : DOUSE
35
___ Walesa, Polish hero : LECH
38
Andy and Ann : RAGDOLLS
39
Goddess of infatuation : ATE
41
Locate : FIND
42
Hold forth : ORATE
44
Carolina river : PEEDEE
45
Bestow : CONFER
48
Actress Pola of silents : NEGRI
49
___ bien : TRES
50
Lawman at the O.K. Corral : EARP
51
Fuliginous substance : SOOT
53
Actor Lincoln: 1889-1952 : ELMO
54
Gil ___ de Santillane : BLAS
55
Adriatic wind : BORA
56
Pitcher : EWER
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"Right to bear arms" org. : NRA

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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