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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, August 24, 1985

39-Down : Free a horse

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,073
Across
1
Broken tooth : SNAG
5
Deep blue : SMALT
10
Delicatesse : TACT
14
Mother of Clytemnestra : LEDA
15
Kazan language : TATAR
16
Bridge ploy : ECHO
17
Assert : AVER
18
Subject of ablation : ERODE
19
Mode of conveyance : TRAM
20
Pompous pundit : MANDARIN
22
Bailiwick : SPHERE
24
In a noteworthy way : EMINENTLY
26
Popular health food : GRANOLA
29
Plant of the mustard family : ALYSSUM
33
Timely horseman : REVERE
34
Conductor Queler : EVE
35
Basso Berberian : ARA
36
Sluggish : INERT
37
Song : LAY
38
An African sheep : TUNIS
40
Standard : PAR
41
Biting : HOT
42
Author-illustrator Maurice : SENDAK
43
Plead : ENTREAT
46
Inns : HOSTELS
47
Petulant : IRRITABLE
49
One of the four humors : PHLEGM
52
Fortify : EMBATTLE
56
Long period : AEON
57
"Cherchez la ___" : FEMME
59
Ring : HOOP
60
Austrian city : LINZ
61
Shoe part : UPPER
62
John Lindsay's "The ___" : EDGE
63
Oil: Comb. form : OLEI
64
Two-legged wolves' looks : LEERS
65
Midler role : ROSE
Down
1
Rubber coup : SLAM
2
Leningrad's river : NEVA
3
Arabian port : ADEN
4
Mary of nursery rhymes : GARDENER
5
Without issue : STERILE
6
Boat basin : MARINA
7
Expiate : ATONE
8
Young acolyte : LAD
9
Supporting framework : TRESTLE
10
Mother of the Oceanids : TETHYS
11
Measure of land : ACRE
12
Small-scaled trout : CHAR
13
Portuguese saint : TOME
21
Lifeless, to Shakespeare : AMORT
23
Twisted strand of yarn : PLY
25
Kind of bean or yard : NAVY
26
Grouse : GRIPE
27
A biographer of Jesus : RENAN
28
Prevent : AVERT
30
Famed jockey : SANDE
31
Wild sheep of India : URIAL
32
Falsefaces : MASKS
34
Corrode : EAT
37
Writer Pierre : LOTI
38
Electrician-inventor Nikola : TESLA
39
Free a horse : UNTETHER
41
Noxious : HARMFUL
42
Certain sisters : SOBBERS
44
Cola di ___, Roman orator : RIENZI
45
Unit of energy : ERG
46
Spillane protagonist : HAMMER
48
Vale of ___, in Greece : TEMPE
49
Señor's stick : PALO
50
Hakenkreuzler's salute : HEIL
51
Like an eremite : LONE
53
Bustle : TODO
54
Some records : LOGS
55
Dueling sword : EPEE
58
Dutch commune : EPE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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