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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, January 16, 1988

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q V W }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 30.6
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 13,948
Across
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Kind of jazz singing : SCAT
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Bower : ARBOR
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Spotted : PIED
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Nobelist for Peace: 1984 : TUTU
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Muster : RAISE
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Architectural pier : ANTA
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Indigenous : ABORIGINAL
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Former autocrat : TSAR
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Far Eastern capital : RANGOON
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Unified whole : GESTALT
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Pension : INN
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Small barracuda : SENNET
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Scuttle : HOD
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Taffrail's locale : AFT
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One of the Marianas : TINIAN
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Town near Burns's birthplace : AYR
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___ Bator : ULAN
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Sacred song : PSALM
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Depository : URN
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Ineffective : STERILE
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Karbi : BEE
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Pool-table cloth : BAIZE
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Type of mackerel : ATKA
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Fiat ___ : LUX
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Protract : EXTEND
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Rent : LET
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Ed Kranepool was one : MET
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___ de Balzac : HONORE
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Nigerian language : IBO
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Pinpoint : ISOLATE
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Burdensome : ONEROUS
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Mozart's "___ fan tutte" : COSI
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Like the yeti : ABOMINABLE
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What diaskeuasts do : EDIT
62
Turkish river : GEDIZ
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Only : LONE
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Make an incised mark : RASE
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Blithen : ELATE
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Phocid : SEAL
Down
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Acrab or Acrux : STAR
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Cask, in Córdoba : CUBA
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Egyptian solar symbol : ATON
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Swollen : TURGID
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The paper nautilus : ARGONAUT
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Play based on a Maugham story : RAIN
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Crib : BIN
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Old Mo. language : OSAGE
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Yield : RELENT
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Clogs' kin : PATTENS
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Like edacious people : INSATIABLE
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Catchall abbr. : ETAL
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Flash : DART
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Plato dialogue : ION
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Becassine : SNIPE
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Shock : STARTLE
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Coney : HYRAX
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Disease caught from birds : ORNITHOSIS
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Dog's bane : FLEA
30
Eskimo language : ALEUT
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Land of Enchantment: Abbr. : NMEX
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Tributary of the Seine : AUBE
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Goddess of victory : NIKE
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Medicinal dried leaves : SENNA
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Bring under Roman influence : LATINIZE
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A source of aluminum : ZEOLITE
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Second childhood : DOTAGE
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Standards of conduct : MORALS
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Wat Tyler was one : REBEL
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Artist Shahn : BEN
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Bakery aide : ICER
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Beginning faro card : SODA
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Disregard : OMIT
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Szopelka, e.g. : OBOE
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Cubitus : ULNA
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Blind a falcon : SEEL
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Room in a harem : ODA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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