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Jesse Roarke
Jesse Roarke

New York Times, Friday, March 16, 1984

Author:
Jesse Roarke
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { B F G J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 21.6
Jesse Roarke has 48 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,547
Across
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Absolute ruler : TSAR
5
Rainbow flower : IRIS
9
Cacao and bumbo : TREES
14
Church part : APSE
15
Hawaiian goose : NENE
16
English novelist: 1814–84 : READE
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Put off : POSTPONED
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Eldritch : EERIE
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Delete : ERASE
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Cut a disk out of a metal plate : TREPANNED
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Lets slacken : REMITS
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Assignation : TRYST
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Nucha or nuque : NAPE
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Bowl or cannon : MORTAR
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Channeled : CANALIZED
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African lake : NYASA
38
One-pip domino : ACE
39
Dolly Varden, e.g. : TROUT
41
Windy City, for short : CHI
42
Impassive : STOIC
45
Preceded in time : ANTEDATED
48
Stretching muscle : TENSOR
50
Unit of measurement : YARD
51
Mountain nymph : OREAD
54
Cute marsupials : KOALAS
58
A bursting inward : IMPLOSION
62
Musical works : OPERA
63
Italy's chief financial center : MILAN
64
Fish used in genetic research : SWORDTAIL
66
La ___, Argentine port : PLATA
67
Mother of Apollo : LETO
68
Pile Pelion on ___ : OSSA
69
Units of loudness : SONES
70
Dash : ELAN
71
Woodwind : REED
Down
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Slender candle : TAPER
2
Reproductive body : SPORE
3
Tea-growing area in India : ASSAM
4
Greek wine flavored with pine resin : RETSINA
5
Daughter of Cadmus : INO
6
Split : RENT
7
Lifeless : INERT
8
Feast at which the Haggadah is recited : SEDER
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Betrayal : TREASON
10
Spaceman's finale : REENTRY
11
Receive for effort : EARN
12
___ Sedgwick, tragic heiress : EDIE
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Germ : SEED
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Flower part : PETAL
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Poe's Arthur Gordon ___ : PYM
24
Point of land : SPIT
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Book of the Bible : EZRA
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Savoir-faire : TACT
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County in N.C. : ASHE
31
Maraud : RAID
32
Mold : CAST
33
Greek peninsula : ACTE
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Rialto light : NEON
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Long period : EON
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Obligation : DUTY
40
Tropical timber tree : TEAK
43
Set apart : ISOLATE
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Cigars or crowns : CORONAS
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Dickens character : DROOD
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Electrician's device : ADAPTOR
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___ gestae : RES
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Passage : AISLE
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Wooden pin : DOWEL
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Hire : LEASE
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Spring : ARISE
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Greens : SALAD
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Puckerels : IMPS
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Grain sorghum : MILO
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Marshall ___ : PLAN
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___ bene : NOTA
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QB Jaworski : RON

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

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