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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, May 21, 1988

39-Across : ___ de combat

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { B J Q X }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,074
Across
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Greek letter : THETA
6
Distress signal : SOS
9
Ball of yarn : CLEW
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Celeritous : RAPID
14
Memorable actor: 1893-1977 : LUNT
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Seine feeder : OISE
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Insect's egg-laying apparatus : OVIPOSITOR
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Painter Guido ___ : RENI
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Natural soil aggregate : PED
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Forty winks : NAP
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Wastrel : ROUNDER
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Chemical suffix : ENE
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Common business abbr. : INC
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Race track : TURF
27
Grand old man : NESTOR
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Sovetsk, to a Berliner : TILSIT
34
Musical ending : CODA
36
Ellipse : OVAL
38
Balloon used in atmospheric probes : SONDE
39
___ de combat : HORS
40
Passover meal : SEDER
42
Poet Whitman : WALT
43
Nitrogen : AZOTE
45
Vociferate wildly : RAVE
46
Dueling sword : EPEE
47
Back out on a promise : RENEGE
49
Fox, in France : RENARD
51
Punjabi river : RAVI
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Contended : RAN
54
Syncopated piece : RAG
57
Put in hot water : SCALDED
60
François's friend : AMI
61
___-American : ALL
62
___ passu (equably) : PARI
63
One of the Solomons : NEWGEORGIA
66
City on the Oka : OREL
67
Record, in a way : TAPE
68
Cubbyholes : NOOKS
69
Salver : TRAY
70
Bucko : LAD
71
Trigonometry functions : SINES
Down
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Rhetorical device : TROPE
2
Harbor : HAVEN
3
American orchid : EPIDENDRON
4
Gratuity : TIP
5
Shakespeare's "Venus and ___" : ADONIS
6
Furniture protector : SLIPCOVER
7
"Odd Man ___" : OUT
8
Sound of disrespect : SNORT
9
Common composite bloom : CORNFLOWER
10
Schubert song : LIED
11
Salve of Ethelred's time : ESNE
12
Fishing fence : WEIR
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Dolly Varden, e.g. : TROUT
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Kind of Brazilian coffee : SANTOS
23
"Trinity" author : URIS
28
Ceremonial flower : EASTERLILY
29
Detective system : RADAR
31
Flashy figwort : SNAPDRAGON
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Unemployed : IDLE
33
Place for a chapeau : TETE
34
Another 15 Down : CHAR
35
Muck : OOZE
37
Exerted influence on : LEVERAGED
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Change the designation of : RENAME
44
Mild expletive : EGAD
48
Outcome : EVENT
50
Charged particles : ANIONS
52
Standard of excellence : IDEAL
55
Similar : ALIKE
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"The ___ of fashion ... ": Ophelia : GLASS
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Lady Macbeth's damned thing : SPOT
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Mystery writer John Dickson ___ : CARR
59
Territory : AREA
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New Deal org. : WPA
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Louis XV, e.g. : ROI

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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