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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, January 24, 1987

41-Down : Old English bard

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, 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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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,591
Across
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Brace : SHORE
6
Packet, e.g. : SHIP
10
Attend : HEED
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Kind of intelligence : NAVAL
15
Rent : TORE
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Capp of comics : ANDY
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Spiel : ORATE
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Conductor : ELECTRODE
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Old word of woe : WELLAWAY
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Spot for the early Mets : CELLAR
23
Article : ITEM
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A condiment in Calabria : SALE
25
Architectural band : TAENIA
28
What stuffed shirts stand on : CEREMONY
32
Next up : ONDECK
33
Big African antelope : ORYX
34
He wrote "The Assignation" : POE
35
Bit of candy : KISS
36
Andress film: 1965 : SHE
37
Leningrad's river : NEVA
38
Compass dir. : ESE
39
One of the Aleutians : ATKA
41
Cordwood measures : STERES
43
A mistress of Charles II : NELLGWYN
45
Shade of blue : COBALT
46
Diva Mills : ERIE
47
___ grapes : SOUR
48
Pollen container : ANTHER
51
Evaluate : APPRAISE
55
St. Teresa was one : CARMELITE
57
Danube, to Caesar : ISTER
58
Sortita, e.g. : ARIA
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Black : EBON
60
Pelts : SKINS
61
Consign to the Devil : DAMN
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Prohibition : DONT
63
Flavor : TASTE
Down
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Author C. P. ___ : SNOW
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Jack rabbit, e.g. : HARE
3
Ellipse : OVAL
4
Cross-ropes on vessels' shrouds : RATLINES
5
School of Greek philosophers : ELEATIC
6
A means of power : STEAM
7
Sacred : HOLY
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Rage : IRE
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Nocturnal piglike animal : PECCARY
10
Site of the famed Apollo Theatre : HARLEM
11
Chemical compound : ENOL
12
Mussolini's daughter : EDDA
13
"Your Erroneous Zones" author : DYER
19
Communication service : TELEX
21
Phthisical : WEAK
24
Hebrew vowel point : SERE
25
Sign : TOKEN
26
Aromatic herb : ANISE
27
Lincoln's late cousin : EDSEL
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He wrote "Gambling": 1929 : COHAN
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" ... Mahagonny" is one : OPERA
30
Stone ware : NOVEL
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Leavening : YEAST
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One of the Inner Hebrides : SKYE
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Home of the Cornhuskers : NEBRASKA
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Concur : AGREE
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Rapidly rotated : TWIRLED
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Old English bard : SCOP
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Cook customer : TOURIST
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___ Caves, Nev. : LEHMAN
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Exhausted : SPENT
48
Pt. of U.S.M.A. : ACAD
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Old capital of Japan : NARA
50
Purfle : TRIM
51
Like ___ of bricks : ATON
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"___ to laugh": Pinero : ITIS
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Remitted : SENT
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Gaelic : ERSE
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Nigerian people : IBO

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

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