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Jim Page
Jim Page

New York Times, Tuesday, March 1, 1983

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 54, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 37.0
Jim Page has 84 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 70 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,166
Across
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Meals on Big Mo : MESSES
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This put its mark on Antony's girl : ASP
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Pop : DAD
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Minerva, to Plato : ATHENA
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Pintail duck : SMEE
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French affirmative : OUI
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Pay dirt : ORE
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Gently: Mus. dir. : SOAVE
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Mets' position in 1982 : LAST
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Quahog : CLAM
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Historian ___ Marshall : SLA
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Hog's quest : ALL
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Mine, en français : AMOI
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Ring-up of a kind : NOSALE
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___ sax : ALTO
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Bow and scrape : KOWTOW
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Feathered : PENNATED
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Gibbon : APE
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A base for cosmetics : LANOLIN
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Inveracity : LIE
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Make haste : STEPONIT
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Knocks to the canvas : LEVELS
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Lower foreleg in beef : SHIN
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City in Pakistan : LAHORE
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Trig concerns : ANGS
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Little feller : TOT
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Cards' logo : STL
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Boars' mates : SOWS
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Ax or adz : TOOL
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Minute groove : STRIA
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Kitchen utensil : WOK
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Chinese restaurant fare : FRIEDSHRIMP
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Pothouse order : ALE
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Is definitely not in the pink : AILS
65
Raccoons' kin : COATIS
66
Prohibit : BAN
67
Kind of ring or glass : SPY
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Strike out : DELETE
Down
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What a priest celebrates : MASS
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Group character : ETHOS
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School of a sort : SHOAL
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Valet : SERVANT
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Duck, in Dortmund : ENTE
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Black Hawk was one : SAC
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"Lucky Jim" author : AMIS
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Berger from Vienna : SENTA
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Cribbage item : PEG
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Higgins's fair lady : DOOLITTLE
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Invisible emanation : AURA
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Per ___ (daily) : DIEM
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Pipsqueak or pipsqueaks : SMALLPOTATOES
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Baked-clay pot : OLLA
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Pop's cousin : COLA
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Nile dam : ASWAN
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Way of acting : MANNER
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Tea from Taiwan : OOLONG
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Electric wiggler : EEL
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___-de-boeuf (round or oval window) : OEIL
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Dutch cupboard : KAS
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Chooses : OPTS
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Whence to view the N.Y.C. skyline : WEEHAWKEN
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Khartoum native : NILOT
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___ Moines : DES
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Zero : NIL
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Doral targets : PINS
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Of a sacristy : VESTRAL
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___ forth (lecture) : HOLD
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Drag ___ (race site) : STRIP
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Hackneyed : TRITE
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Boundary : LIMIT
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Mop the deck : SWAB
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Oop's gal : OOLA
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Like seas after some spills : OILY
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Brake part : SHOE
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Church area : APSE
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Monogram of "The Voice" : FAS
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M.I.T. deg. : SCD

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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