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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Wednesday, February 24, 1988

53-Down : Lake in Botswana

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, 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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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 13,987
Across
1
Converse idly : CHAT
5
Large star in Virgo : SPICA
10
Pining nymph : ECHO
14
Jot : IOTA
15
Instrument Schweitzer played : ORGAN
16
Twenty quires : REAM
17
Urban health hazard : SMOG
18
High perch : ROOST
19
Sea lettuce : ULVA
20
Stock of wine : CELLAR
22
Kringle's jinglers : REINDEER
24
Egg stones : OOLITES
26
News filler : SQUIB
27
Nervous ___ : NELLY
29
Faithless : UNTRUE
32
Nonvocal actor : MIME
35
Arthur's ___ Perilous : SIEGE
37
Merit : EARN
38
Kyushu volcano : ASO
39
Needlefish : GAR
40
Composer Rorem : NED
41
Focuser of light : LENS
43
Studied intently : PORED
45
Consort of Cybele : ATYS
46
Measuring worm : LOOPER
48
Letter projection : SERIF
50
Shinto gateway : TORII
52
Home of the Maple Leafs : TORONTO
56
Spates : TORRENTS
59
Happy Fido's tail : WAGGER
60
___ and out : OVER
61
Claw : TALON
63
Zola heroine : NANA
64
St. Rose of ___ : LIMA
65
Slur : ELIDE
66
"Omnia vincit ___" : AMOR
67
Site of a tree of life : EDEN
68
Lassoed : ROPED
69
Cows, to Cowper : KINE
Down
1
Great Lakes whitefish : CISCO
2
Similar: Comb. form : HOMEO
3
Coral island : ATOLL
4
Catchword : TAGLINE
5
Reddish-brown horses : SORRELS
6
Greg Norman, e.g. : PRO
7
Baritone Gorin : IGOR
8
Stack in a liquor store : CASES
9
Bygone : ANTIQUE
10
Learned : ERUDITE
11
Reveler : CELEBRANT
12
Eat : HAVE
13
Persian poet : OMAR
21
Goddess of infatuation : ATE
23
Sister : NUN
25
Irish county or port : SLIGO
28
Century components : YEARS
30
Nobelist in Chemistry: 1934 : UREY
31
Wide receivers : ENDS
32
Promenade : MALL
33
Lake in Lombardy : ISEO
34
Duckbill or echidna : MONOTREME
36
Salute : GREET
42
Highlander's pouch : SPORRAN
43
Franklin was one : PRINTER
44
Went under like Leander : DROWNED
45
Island north of Kodiak : AFOGNAK
47
Before, in poesy : ERE
49
Author Levin : IRA
51
Aviator Balbo : ITALO
53
Lake in Botswana : NGAMI
54
Part of a dovetail : TENON
55
"___ Ben Jonson!" : ORARE
56
Ornamental metalware : TOLE
57
Poet Naso : OVID
58
Kind of stitch : SLIP
62
Stately lyric : ODE

Answer summary:
3 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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