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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, September 5, 1992

23-Across : "If seven maids with seven ___"

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,642
Across
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Whitewashed : LIMED
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Devil's-grip, e.g. : WEED
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Musical symbol : CLEF
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Dispatch boat : AVISO
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Al Jolson's last wife : ERLE
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San Juan ___ : HILL
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Popular flower : NASTURTIUM
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One of the Aleutians : ATKA
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Whole : ENTIRE
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Form of light verse : CLERIHEW
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"If seven maids with seven ___" : MOPS
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Novice : TIRO
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End of a familiar palindrome : ELBA
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Dutch river or beer : AMSTEL
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A poet laureate of Byron's day : PYE
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Plunder : LOOT
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Type of stitch : SUTURE
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Fimbriate : HEM
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Caesar's Danube : ISTER
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Minyan minimum : TEN
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Eurydice was one : DRYAD
43
___ Meeuwtje, Minuit's ship : HET
44
Relative of a sextant : OCTANT
47
Peut-___ (maybe, in Metz) : ETRE
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Ocean State inst. : URI
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Poet like Guest : RHYMER
50
Actor from Burbank : PENN
51
An Algonquian : CREE
53
"Fiesque" composer : LALO
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Castles-in-the-air builders : DREAMERS
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Solzhenitsyn's "The First ___" : CIRCLE
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Vacillate : HALT
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Freed-Brown song: 1933 : TEMPTATION
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Architectural fillet : ORLE
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Male ant : ANER
68
___-rocket : RETRO
69
Lament : WAIL
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"Battle Hymn ... " composer : HOWE
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Endures, in Edinburgh : DREES
Down
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Kent's Lois ___ : LANE
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Writer Bunin : IVAN
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___ Maidens, floaters in Oz : MIST
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Appraisal : ESTIMATE
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Pôrto's river : DOURO
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Rainy : WET
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Guitarist Clapton : ERIC
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Jewish month : ELUL
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Mother of Persephone : DEMETER
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Bergère, e.g. : CHAIR
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Coral, for one : LITHOPHYTE
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Actress Sommer : ELKE
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Blemish : FLAW
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Meal for Molière : REPAS
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Sore : RILED
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Indecent : SMUTTY
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One of Job's friends : ELIHU
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Carthage, in the Punic Wars : LOSER
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"The Birth of Venus" artist : BOTTICELLI
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Glue neutralizer : STEAM
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Animal's burrow : TUNNEL
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Long : YEARN
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German port : EMDEN
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Composer from Ind. : ROREM
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Possibly a cub : REPORTER
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Fast cat : CHEETAH
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Area : TRACT
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Badger's kin : RATEL
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River in the Yukon : LIARD
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Lateen-rigged vessel : DHOW
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___ avis : RARA
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Custer's Major ___ : RENO
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White-crested merganser : SMEW
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Quote : CITE
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Body of knowledge : LORE
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A grandson of Adam : ENOS
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Meadow, in Meuse : PRE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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