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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Friday, September 9, 1988

23-Down : Obscured

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, 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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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,185
Across
1
Set firmly : POSIT
6
Architectural feature : DOME
10
Wrap, as a mummy : CERE
14
Like the Ancient Mariner : ALONE
15
Wild goat of Asia Minor : IBEX
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Cilium : HAIR
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Order : CLASS
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Desperate : DIRE
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Pisa's river : ARNO
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Sibelius's "___ Suite" : KARELIA
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Berlin's namesakes : IRVINGS
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Walrus's interlocutor : CARPENTER
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Close : SHUT
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Lhasa ___ (Tibetan dog) : APSO
30
Final state of 4 Down : IMAGO
34
Cosset : PET
35
Military vehicle : JEEP
36
Pilsener, e.g. : LAGER
37
Port of N Chile : ARICA
39
Old dress : RAG
41
Bomber ___ Gay : ENOLA
42
Mexican snacks : TACOS
43
Sort of sortie : RAID
45
Musical dir. : RIT
46
Actor Terence ___ : STAMP
47
Of the ear : OTIC
48
Miami's county : DADE
49
Musician's timer : METRONOME
52
Island off Sonora : TIBURON
55
Breathing tube : SNORKEL
59
___ St. Lawrence, G.B.S.'s home : AYOT
60
Wine valley : NAPA
62
City on the Nile : CAIRO
63
Destiny of the boll : BALE
64
Ornamental case : ETUI
65
___ Kush, Asian range : HINDU
66
Nurtured : BRED
67
Tear : REND
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"___ purs ... ": Gounod aria : ANGES
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Ice or six follower : PACK
2
Large ceramic pot : OLLA
3
Fly high : SOAR
4
Arthropod : INSECT
5
Inventor Nikola : TESLA
6
Small grebe : DIDAPPER
7
Sendai sash : OBI
8
Choice breed of sheep : MERINO
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Put forth effort : EXERT
10
Moderator : CHAIRMAN
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Deserve : EARN
12
Call : RING
13
A son of Aphrodite : EROS
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Passions, to Pliny : IRAE
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Obscured : VEILED
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Grass for cordage : ESPARTO
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Items in a toff's attire : SPATS
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Afghan city : HERAT
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Neighbor of Carthage : UTICA
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Polis meeting place : AGORA
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Frozen : GELID
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Hold forth : ORATE
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Manhattan College student : JASPER
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Altered, as a metal : COMMUTED
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Contradicted : GAINSAID
44
Giotto fresco, e.g : ICON
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Elaborately embellished : ORNATE
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Painter André ___ : DERAIN
50
Coloring solution : TONER
51
Choice coffee : MOCHA
52
He wrote "The Rosary in Rhyme" : TABB
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Jewish month : IYAR
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Trunk or clay : BOLE
56
Director Vidor : KING
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Mahler's "Das Lied von der ___" : ERDE
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Gehrig and Piniella : LOUS
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Word play : PUN

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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