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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, December 3, 1983

53-Down : Crescent-shaped figure

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F J K Q W X }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,443
Across
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Where Romans routed Hannibal: 202 B.C. : ZAMA
5
Portal : ENTRY
10
Trial run, in horse-racing lingo : PREP
14
Emerald Isle : ERIN
15
Crude person : YAHOO
16
A river of the Punjab : RAVI
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Agitate, colloquially : RILE
18
Like most X-rated films : EROTOGENIC
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Instrument for measuring distance traveled : ODOMETER
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Hack : HAGGLE
23
Desserts : ICES
24
Substantive : NOUN
25
Stereotype : CLICHE
28
Heat-removing substances : COOLANTS
32
Lily, in Lille : LIS
33
Tryon's "The ___" : OTHER
35
Gastropod mollusk : SNAIL
36
Indian victims of miners: 1864 : YANA
38
Small inland islands : HOLMS
40
Broz : TITO
41
Pendants : DROPS
43
Braid : PLAIT
45
High, rugged mountain : ALP
46
People sensitive to beauty : ESTHETES
48
" ... the bonnet of Bonny ___": Scott : DUNDEE
50
Naso, the poet : OVID
51
Russian river : LENA
52
Purplish red : CLARET
55
Henry Morgan's activity: 17th century : PIRATING
59
Meditating : RUMINATIVE
61
Winged : ALAR
62
Black cuckoos : ANIS
63
Site of Hercules' first labor : NEMEA
64
"De mortuis nil ___ bonum" : NISI
65
Narrow ledge : BERM
66
Jam often created in N.Y.C. : SNARL
67
Makes picots : TATS
Down
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A memorable Mostel : ZERO
2
Desiccated : ARID
3
Grain sorghum : MILO
4
Feeble : ANEMIC
5
Upper canines : EYETEETH
6
Nostrils : NARES
7
God with a hammer : THOR
8
Corruption : ROT
9
Call to attract attention : YOOHOO
10
Gravid : PREGNANT
11
Pealed : RANG
12
Lucifer's love : EVIL
13
Nepalese coins : PICE
19
Ancient Celts : GAULS
21
Repercussion : ECHO
24
Bellini heroine : NORMA
25
Warren Beatty role : CLYDE
26
Pseudologists : LIARS
27
" ... mercy ___ strained": Shak. : ISNOT
28
Basic constituents : CELLS
29
R. Strauss maiden : NAIAD
30
Designation : TITLE
31
Declivity : SLOPE
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Had expectations : HOPED
37
Pithy saying : APHORISM
39
Stellar : SIDEREAL
42
Lowest écarté card : SEVEN
44
Large food fish : TUNA
47
Hyperion and Cronus : TITANS
49
Swimming : NATANT
51
A source of iron : LIVER
52
Symbol for a July 4 baby : CRAB
53
Crescent-shaped figure : LUNE
54
Qala Nau bigwig : AMIR
55
Cotton shirting : PIMA
56
Pelvic bones : ILIA
57
Publisher Condé ___ : NAST
58
Cubist Juan : GRIS
60
Lacrosse team : TEN

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

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