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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, January 9, 1993

27-Down : Pueblo people of N.M.

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { B J Q X }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 3, 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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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,768
Across
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"Brigadoon" heroine : FIONA
6
Circuit : TOUR
10
Self-satisfied : SMUG
14
Dialect of a region : IDIOM
15
Sound of the surf : ROTE
16
Concern : CARE
17
Intimate : LETON
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Orison finis : AMEN
19
Asian sea : ARAL
20
Semanticist's concern : MEANING
22
Jessye Norman, e.g. : SOPRANO
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In concealment : DOGGO
26
See 40 Down : WILSON
27
Quarters for Hindu women : ZENANA
30
African fox : FENNEC
32
Nobel chemist: 1934 : UREY
33
Point ___, Calif. : MUGU
35
___ Levy, Cohan's first wife : ETHEL
38
Serbian city : NIS
39
Nevada and Madre : SIERRAS
41
League for a Cantab : IVY
42
Emerge : ISSUE
44
Cathedral city in N France : LAON
45
Male ant : ANER
46
Begrudges : ENVIES
48
In abundance : GALORE
50
Adjective for 50 Down : MOLTEN
52
Steam bath : SAUNA
54
Set up : ARRANGE
56
Compounds relating with others : ISOMERS
60
Snatch : GLOM
61
Checker player's choice : REDS
63
Kindled again : RELIT
64
Manner of doing : MODE
65
Spanish port of entry : IRUN
66
Turkish city on the Seyhan : ADANA
67
Copied : APED
68
Unit of force : DYNE
69
Last capital of Ceylon's kings : KANDY
Down
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Spike Lee product : FILM
2
Concept for Colette : IDEE
3
Port of Kyushu : OITA
4
Meridian time : NOONDAY
5
Embryonic membrane : AMNION
6
Lt. ___ in Perry Mason tales : TRAGG
7
___ Paul Kruger : OOM
8
Kin of semis : UTES
9
Note : RENOWN
10
Rutgers U.'s color : SCARLET
11
Cherry liqueur : MARASCHINO
12
Heavens: Comb. form : URANO
13
Tyrant of old Syracuse : GELON
21
Lake of Botswana : NGAMI
23
Loblollies : PINES
25
Whitman's "Leaves ___" : OFGRASS
27
Pueblo people of N.M. : ZUNI
28
Mythical pome tosser : ERIS
29
Kind of pie or pudding : NESSELRODE
31
Reddish-gray kangaroo : EURO
34
River of Zaire : UELE
36
Unceasingly : EVER
37
Does this play false notes? : LYRE
39
Important fan-tan card : SEVEN
40
With 20 Across, English novelist : ANGUS
43
Feral : UNTAMED
45
Public walk : ALAMEDA
47
Soprano Bjoner : INGRID
49
Parka : ANORAK
50
Source of igneous rock : MAGMA
51
Low deck : ORLOP
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Flower from the Argonne : AISNE
55
Eldritch : EERY
57
Verve : ELAN
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Cortex : RIND
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Guy rope : STAY
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Dark; gloomy : DUN

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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