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Jim Page
Jim Page

New York Times, Friday, November 20, 1987

44-Across : Actual being

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { G J K V X }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 39.8
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. 13,891
Across
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Title Liszt held : ABBE
5
Of an epoch : ERAL
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Vamp of the silents : BARA
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Eagels vehicle: 1922 : RAIN
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Buggy with bugs : LEMON
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___ Bator, Mongolia : ULAN
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Ballet, music, etc. : ARTS
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Ruddy duck's consolation? : BOOBYPRIZE
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Happen to, as misfortune : BETIDE
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Wider, as a vessel : BEAMIER
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Guido note : ELA
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Housefly's relative : TSETSE
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Warblers using Stillsons? : WRENCHERS
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Colonnade for Zeno : STOA
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Chinese dynasty : HAN
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Unruffled : COOL
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What an antenna does : FEELS
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"To a Skylark," e.g. : ODE
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Copy a ratite? : EMULATE
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Map abbrs. : RDS
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Flocks of snipes : WISPS
42
Domesday Book money : ORAE
43
Society-page word : NEE
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Actual being : ESSE
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Bickering pigeon? : SQUABBLER
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Razorbills : SCOUTS
50
Prune trees : LOP
51
Tangible : TACTILE
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Closed an envelope : SEALED
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Marsh-bird banters? : RAILLERIES
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F.D.R. pet : FALA
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Norman river : ORNE
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Treat with disdain : SNOOT
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Collar or school : ETON
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Poor marks : DEES
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" ... all men are Noah's ___": Wilbur : SONS
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Tennis great Lacoste : RENE
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Fine equine : ARAB
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Just sufficient : BARE
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Wading birds' acrimony? : BITTERNESS
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Store grain : ENSILE
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Hamburg's river : ELBE
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Old car : REO
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One of a Latin trio : AMO
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Becker, at times : LOBBER
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U Thant, e.g. : BURMESE
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Inter ___ : ALII
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Use a wrecker's ball : RAZE
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Male ant : ANER
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U.S.S.R. vetoes : NYETS
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___-de-Calais : PAS
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Shimmy, etc. : DANCES
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"I am holier than ___" : THOU
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Super Bowl, usually : SELLOUT
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Oases, at times : WADIS
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Bob Hope's fld. : COM
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Sea bird's roofing material? : TERNEPLATE
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"___ men declare war": H. Hoover : OLDER
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African fox : ASSE
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Julia Ward ___ : HOWE
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Inadequate : FEEBLE
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Parseghian et al. : ARAS
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Brunch bill : TAB
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Grinding tools : PESTLES
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Pump bottoms : SOLES
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Primitive grain mills : QUERNS
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Fainéant : LOAFER
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Pierre's eyelash : CIL
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Walked on : TROD
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Lake Thun feeder : AARE
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Movies, to Fellini : CINE
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Fast jets : SSTS
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N.C. college : ELON
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Aarhus citizen : DANE
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Grade A grade : IOO
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Long time : EON

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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