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Jim Page
Jim Page

Literally Speaking

New York Times, Sunday, March 29, 1981

49-Down : R.b.i. or e.r.a.

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 82, Avg Word Len: 5.06, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 505 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 114, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 15, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13, Grid flow: 25.6 Grid has duplicate clues.
Jim Page has 84 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 70 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

In 57-Down clue, "Feeling" should be "Feelings"; left as in the original.

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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,464
Across
1
Hit the books : PORE
5
Dalai ___ : LAMA
9
Taiwan Strait seaport : AMOY
13
Greek letters : PSIS
17
Blockheads, in Brest : ANES
18
___-on-Hudson, N.Y. : CROTON
20
Jay or Kay : NAME
21
Pinsetter's place : LANE
22
24
Cassini : OLEG
25
Came down : ALIT
26
Kind of spring : MINERAL
27
30
Contralto Nikolaidi : ELENA
31
Idle : OTIOSE
34
Cozy retreat : NEST
35
Gram weight : MOL
36
Eng. author : RLS
37
Quick-fry : SAUTE
38
"Betty ___" : COED
40
In Dutch it's Rijn : RHINE
42
Decrees : IRADES
44
Bd. members : TRS
45
"Some ___ meat ... ": Burns : HAE
46
Took 40 winks : RESTED
49
Mmes., in Cádiz : SRAS
51
Type of type : ITALIC
55
Bar, legally : ESTOP
56
61
Anne or Jeanne: Abbr. : STE
62
Regions : AREAS
63
Grassland : LEA
64
All knotted up : EVEN
65
El Cordobés bullring foe : TORO
67
70
Sonoran Indians : SERI
71
Indigo : ANIL
72
Wine: Comb. form : ENO
73
Island near New Guinea : ROOKE
74
Animal pouch : SAC
75
79
Play about Perón : EVITA
81
Made the grade : PASSED
82
Essence : GIST
83
Barrymore or Hampton : LIONEL
84
Kin of rds. and sts. : AVS
85
"___ Clown" : BEA
86
Endurance-race site : LEMANS
89
Vermont ski resort : STOWE
92
___ War: 1899–1902 : BOER
93
Uncanny : EERIE
94
Forming a corner: Abbr. : ANG
97
Ear: Comb. form : AUR
98
Marsh growth : REED
100
Dairy-company devices : DATERS
102
Galileo taught here : PADUA
104
107
Albert Speer book : SPANDAU
109
Author Sheehy : GAIL
110
Carty of baseball : RICO
111
114
Prefix for blast or carp : ENDO
115
Agenda entry : ITEM
116
Sheathe a blade : ENCASE
117
___ homo : ECCE
118
Benchley's "The ___" : DEEP
119
Existence : ESSE
120
Rim hangings : NETS
121
Ending with pun or fun : STER
Down
1
Golf great : PALMER
2
House Speaker Tip : ONEILL
3
City WSW of Paris : RENNES
4
Ruhr steel center : ESSEN
5
Chaney : LON
6
Panay people : ATI
7
Mailer subject : MONROE
8
Breed of cattle : ANGUS
9
Shortly : ANON
10
Stiff, silk net : MALINES
11
Foretold : OMENED
12
Safecrackers : YEGGS
13
Land developer's map : PLAT
14
Deli order : SALAMI
15
" ... armies clad ___": Milton : INIRON
16
Sink like a soufflé : SETTLE
18
V.I.P. at tax time : CPA
19
Gunnery officer's command : RELOAD
23
Early English money : ORA
28
Honeybee's intake : NECTAR
29
Layers : STRATA
32
Calendar abbr. : TUE
33
"___ only a paper moon ... " : ITS
37
Like McCullers's café : SAD
39
About : ORSO
41
Equine ailment : HEAVES
42
Dancer Michio ___ : ITO
43
Ribbed fabric : REP
45
King of Tyre : HIRAM
46
Replace, as postage : RESTAMP
47
Baltic Sea republic : ESTONIA
48
Compounds including vitamin D : STERIDS
49
R.b.i. or e.r.a. : STAT
50
Sarasota and Palm Springs : RESORTS
52
"And she ___ our alley": Carey : LIVESIN
53
Go over verbally : ITERATE
54
Sneering : CYNICAL
56
Recent: Comb. form : CAENO
57
___ Good Feeling : ERAOF
58
Saul's grandfather : NER
59
Chip : FLAKE
60
To freeze: Fr. : GELER
66
Maxim, redundantly : OLDSAW
67
Pays close attention : HEEDS
68
Trilby or tootsy : FOOT
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Mail convenience: Abbr. : POB
76
Jimmies : LEVERS
77
Pointed arch : OGEE
78
"Other Skies" poet : CIARDI
79
Chem. suffix : EIN
80
Flemish painter: 16th century : VOS
83
New Guinea locale : LAE
85
Women's vests : BODICES
86
He bestrode Traveller : LEE
87
Go astray : ERR
88
F.D.R.'s secretary et al. : MISSYS
89
Drooped : SAGGED
90
Gridiron's Green Wave : TULANE
91
Cheap-jewelry alloy : OROIDE
92
Is suited to : BEFITS
93
Refrigerant or fuel : ETHANE
94
Habituate : ADDICT
95
Shade of difference : NUANCE
96
British excise-tax collector : GAUGER
99
Eagle's nest : EYRIE
101
Pallid : ASHEN
102
Roast or roaster : PAN
103
Machu Picchu setting : ANDES
105
Sterne's Dr. : SLOP
106
Seward Peninsula city : NOME
108
___ Dee (Carolina river) : PEE
112
Pt. of the whole : PCT
113
Ballerina's ___ seul : PAS

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10 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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