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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, September 6, 1986

42-Down : Point in an orbit

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { J W X }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, 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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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,451
Across
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He wrote "Endymion" : KEATS
6
Fan fare : GAME
10
Bluff : CRAG
14
Own : ADMIT
15
Billion-year period : AEON
16
Hawaiian port : HILO
17
Lachrymose : TEARY
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Josip ___ (Tito) : BROZ
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Architectural pier : ANTA
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Jean Henri Fabre's forte : ENTOMOLOGY
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Like some books : USED
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Date for Decius : IDES
24
Kind of joint : MITER
26
Vandyke relative : GOATEE
30
Finale : OMEGA
32
River in the City of Lilies : ARNO
33
Roofing unit : TILE
35
Bizarre : OUTRE
39
Visionary : FANTAST
41
Entrance canopy : MARQUEE
43
Argosy : FLEET
44
Clip : CROP
46
River to the Caspian : URAL
47
Arabian coffee : MOCHA
49
Ale-lemonade drink : SHANDY
51
Popular aquarium fish : GUPPY
53
Musical ensemble : TRIO
55
Prefix with cumulus : ALTO
56
Mineral used in making refractories : CHRYSOLITE
62
Kettle handle : BAIL
63
Pack : LOAD
64
Part of a casquette : VISOR
65
Grayish blue : BICE
66
At all : ONCE
67
Gives out : EMITS
68
You were, to Cato : ERAS
69
Chaldean : SEER
70
Change type : RESET
Down
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Actress Reid : KATE
2
A Cotton Belt grape : EDEN
3
Third of a Latin paradigm : AMAT
4
Novice: Var. : TIRO
5
Block : STYMIE
6
Butler in 1939 : GABLE
7
Pressurized container : AEROSOL
8
Electronic music synthesizer : MOOG
9
Substance essential to life : ENZYME
10
N.Y. lake or county : CHAUTAUQUA
11
Flush : RINSE
12
Change : ALTER
13
Prod : GOAD
21
"Clash by Night" playwright : ODETS
25
Harpsichordist Kipnis : IGOR
26
Piscator's hook : GAFF
27
Viva-voce : ORAL
28
Fatima's sister : ANNE
29
Hierarchical systems : TOTEMPOLES
31
Exec's reminder : MEMO
34
Vexation : ITCH
36
Circuit : TURN
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Interpret : READ
38
Elusive : EELY
40
At the summit : ATOP
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Point in an orbit : APSIS
45
Treadmill of a sort : RATRACE
48
Three-wheeled motor taxis : CYCLOS
50
Author of "America's First Crusade" : HOOVER
51
Sizing liquid : GLAIR
52
Old city near Carthage : UTICA
54
American painter Albert Pinkham ___ : RYDER
55
Title Liszt held : ABBE
57
Whet : HONE
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Citrus fruit : LIME
59
Wife of Osiris : ISIS
60
Schlep : TOTE
61
Of yore, of yore : ERST

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2 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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