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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, July 28, 1990

17-Across : Keel extension

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, 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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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,872
Across
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Brandenburg ___ : GATE
5
Asia ___ : MINOR
10
Instrument banned by Mao's widow : TUBA
14
Indigo : ANIL
15
Beethoven's "Für ___" : ELISE
16
At a distance : AFAR
17
Keel extension : SKEG
18
Fruity pudding sauce : NESSELRODE
20
Anomaly of a sort : PARADOX
22
Reluctant : AVERSE
23
"True ___" : GRIT
24
A Gabor : EVA
25
East Indian ape : KRA
27
Grave : STAID
31
Plumed heron : EGRET
35
Dull guy : NERD
37
Composer Vincent d'___ : INDY
38
Loamy deposit : LOESS
39
Teutonic king : OTTO
40
Muddle, G.I. style : SNAFU
42
Truly's agcy. : NASA
43
Small birds : WRENS
45
Throat-clearing sound : AHEM
46
Maple genus : ACER
47
Of sound : SONIC
48
Relating to structure : MODAL
50
Lots of lbs. : TNS
51
Last letter in Leeds : ZED
53
Polynesian creator : TIKI
55
Wailed, in a way : KEENED
58
White fur : MINIVER
61
Having five sides : PENTAGONAL
63
Punjab river : RAVI
64
Camp sight : TENT
65
Profit : AVAIL
66
Separate particular : ITEM
67
Turkish regiment : ALAI
68
Purgative herb : SENNA
69
Hawaiian goose : NENE
Down
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Breathe laboriously : GASP
2
Singer-composer from Canada : ANKA
3
Berlin park and zoo : TIERGARTEN
4
"Falstaff" composer: 1913 : ELGAR
5
Ciro and Gian Carlo : MENOTTIS
6
Holly : ILEX
7
City of Yugoslavia : NIS
8
Bones, to Tiberius : OSSA
9
Overseer of feudal obligations : REEVE
10
Spanish port : TARRAGONA
11
Saucers of a kind : UFOS
12
Directed : BADE
13
100 square meters : ARE
19
Nivellate : LEVEL
21
Pluto : DIS
25
"The Shadow ___" : KNOWS
26
Kind of rocket : RETRO
28
Region of Vietnam : ANNAM
29
Sun Valley is here : IDAHO
30
County in SW Wales : DYFED
32
Start up again : REACTIVATE
33
Krupp works site : ESSEN
34
Autocrats : TSARS
36
"Don Pasquale" composer : DONIZETTI
41
Ore. river : UMATILLA
44
Part of an opera : SCENA
49
Author Yutang : LIN
52
Associate of Renoir : DEGAS
54
Chinese province, now called Jilin : KIRIN
55
Doyen in "Dallas" : KEEL
56
Danish composer : ENNA
57
Hawk's opposite : DOVE
58
Central : MAIN
59
Balanced : EVEN
60
Frost often seen in Vt. : RIME
61
Sch. affiliate : PTA
62
A Bobbsey twin : NAN

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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