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Jim Page
Jim Page

New York Times, Thursday, January 22, 1987

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { Q W X Y }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 45.5 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Jim Page has 84 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 70 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,589
Across
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Bex and Dax : SPAS
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Hi, in Hilo : ALOHA
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Baker-Charlie precursor : ABLE
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Expletive : OATH
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Recorder : NOTER
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Type of deck : POOP
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Pirate : FREEBOOTER
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Sit : POSE
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Rose-arbor structure : TRELLIS
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Chemist's measurer : PIPETTE
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Freight unit : TON
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Meat for noisettes : VEAL
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Castoffs : REJECTS
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Cash in on an investment : REALIZE
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Bridge master Sharif : OMAR
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Developers' interests : SITES
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Cicatrix : SCAR
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Flick : PIC
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Make a knight : DUB
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Kith's companion : KIN
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Wearers of teeth : ELKS
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Sire : BEGET
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Rouge et Noire : MERS
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Parliamentary events : DEBATES
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Minnelli-Grey film : CABARET
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Imperfect circle : OVAL
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Thrash : TAN
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Russian vehicles : TROIKAS
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Waltz king : STRAUSS
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Pictorial presswork : ROTO
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Speak-easy supplier : BOOTLEGGER
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Topping : OVER
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Pop song of Pop's day : OLDIE
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Radius neighbor : ULNA
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Weems and Williams : TEDS
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Sounds from a pride : ROARS
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Eyots : AITS
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Flabby : SOFT
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Skegger : PARR
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Fit to ___ : ATEE
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Cover : SHELTER
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Oils, ecclesiastically : ANOINTS
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French battle site: 1915 : LOOS
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Polo Grounds hero : OTT
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Dickens villain : HEEP
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Gets to Kennedy : ARRIVES
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A court : APPEALS
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Subservient one : BOOTLICKER
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Misplaced : LOST
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Foil's relative : EPEE
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Common-interest group : BLOC
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Coal size : PEA
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Bound : ROPED
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Sociologist Durkheim : EMILE
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Shod like some fishermen : JACKBOOTED
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A dodecahedron has 12 : SIDES
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Ancient instrument : REBEC
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Kinshasa is its capital : ZAIRE
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Sculptor-playwright Barlach : ERNST
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Pull hard : TUG
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Redeemers : SAVIORS
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Excoriate verbally : BELABOR
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Squeals : TATTLES
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Nicaragua's capital : MANAGUA
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"We'll ___ a cup ... ": Burns : TAK
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Uncover : BARE
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Pony : TROT
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Spatiate : ROVE
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Unaccompanied : SOLO
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Ado : STIR
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Jamaican fruit : UGLI
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Mailed : SENT
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Madrid Mmes. : SRAS
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Harem room : ODA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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