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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Saturday, October 10, 1987

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J Q W }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 29.2
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,850
Across
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Whitman's "Leaves of ___" : GRASS
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Demeanor : PORT
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Taciturn one : CLAM
14
Blue Ridge caverns : LURAY
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Relative of an aulos : OBOE
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Whet : HONE
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Without relevance : INAPPOSITE
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North French river : ORNE
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Old Egyptian capital : MEMPHIS
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Menace : THREAT
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Conductor of liquid : HOSE
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Wing tip, e.g. : SHOE
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King's wear : ERMINE
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Kind of 24 Across : ELEVATOR
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Mosel feeder : SAAR
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Fern's reproductive body : SPORE
34
Black cuckoo : ANI
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Parts of forks : TINES
37
Truncate : LOP
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Violent : RABID
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Compass dir. : ESE
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Natchez ___, early 19th-century road : TRACE
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Trudge : SLOG
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Poe's "The Masque of the ___" : REDDEATH
46
Antiknock number : OCTANE
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Ye ___ Tea Shoppe : OLDE
49
Be guided by : OBEY
50
Sultanate on Borneo's coast : BRUNEI
53
Mrs. Aquino : CORAZON
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Merit : EARN
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Basic condition : ALKALINITY
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Flood, e.g. : TIDE
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Christmas : NOEL
63
"Sarabandes" composer : SATIE
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Calumniate : SLUR
65
Senatorial garb : TOGA
66
Live : EXIST
Down
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Brief look : GLIM
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Finnish canto : RUNE
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Ancient Syria : ARAM
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Blue corundum : SAPPHIRE
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Type of 23 Across: Var. : SYPHON
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Sheriff's group : POSSE
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Sendai sash : OBI
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Corruption : ROT
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Baby's mouthpiece : TEETHER
10
Nervous disorder : CHOREA
11
Body of knowledge : LORE
12
Former Indian monetary unit : ANNA
13
Sporting event : MEET
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Seine feeder : OISE
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Be irresolute : HOVER
24
Talus : SLOPE
25
Fragrant compound : ESTER
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Heighten : RAISE
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Like a lion or horse : MANED
28
Signal period of time : EPOCH
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Board, in Barcelona : TABLA
30
Edible bulb of the lily family : ONION
31
Elongate elevation : RIDGE
33
Purplish-gray shade : SLATE
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Commemorative pillar : STELE
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Son of Hector and Andromache : ASTYANAX
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Effulgent : RADIANT
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A Sierra Nevada pass : DONNER
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One-sixth drachma : OBOL
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Cherry red : CERISE
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Fla. city : OCALA
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These are made at Belmont : BETS
51
Wading bird : RAIL
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An official language of Pakistan : URDU
54
Form of pasta : ZITI
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American revolutionary figure : OTIS
56
Tolstoy's declination : NYET
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Old card game : LOO
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Rundlet : KEG

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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