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James R. Burns
James R. Burns

New York Times, Monday, April 28, 1986

Author:
James R. Burns
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 28.1
James R. Burns has 36 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,320
Across
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Exchange : SWAP
5
Fine violin, for short : STRAD
10
Aleutian island : ATKA
14
Poe specialty : TALE
15
One of the ABC Powers : CHILE
16
State of mind : MOOD
17
Poker stake : ANTE
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Sacred article : RELIC
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Concerning : INRE
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Mary Ann Evans : GEORGEELIOT
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Senate vote : YEA
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Palindromic preposition : ERE
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Rapscallion : RASCAL
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Pilchards : SARDINES
32
Filipino Moslem : SULU
33
Kimono sash : OBI
34
Lukewarm : TEPID
36
Civil wrongs : TORTS
39
Burning glass : LENS
41
Old fogies : DODOS
43
Egyptian deity : PTAH
44
Beats narrowly : EDGES
46
Psalms word : SELAH
48
Anger : IRE
49
Sworn statement : OATH
51
Emphasized : STRESSED
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Renter : LESSEE
55
Intent : AIM
56
Food scrap : ORT
57
Herbert Frahm : WILLYBRANDT
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Summer pest : GNAT
66
The March King : SOUSA
67
Prepare apples for baking : CORE
68
De Valera's land : EIRE
69
Occupied : TAKEN
70
Swiss painter : KLEE
71
Antitoxins : SERA
72
McCarthy's fellow dummy : SNERD
73
Cutting maxims? : SAWS
Down
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Male partygoer : STAG
2
Fade away : WANE
3
Kind of flute : ALTO
4
Looked narrowly : PEERED
5
Windowed : SCREENED
6
Quaker form of address : THEE
7
Small brook : RILL
8
Et ___ (and others): Lat. : ALII
9
Adornments : DECORS
10
Pierrot of song : AMI
11
Bernard Schwartz : TONYCURTIS
12
Land called Chosen by Japanese : KOREA
13
Monty Hall's "Let's Make ___" : ADEAL
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Pluck : GRIT
22
Shipshape : TAUT
26
Liquid mud : SLOP
27
One and only : SOLE
28
Not yet up : ABED
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Richard Starkey : RINGOSTARR
30
Poetry of a people : EPOS
31
What partisans take : SIDES
35
Blockhead : DOLT
37
Darnel : TARE
38
Lean-to : SHED
40
Coral and Red : SEAS
42
Slow Spanish dance : SARABAND
45
Olla-podrida : STEW
47
Legatee : HEIR
50
Bank jobs : HEISTS
52
Fishing vessels : SMACKS
53
Theater boxes : LOGES
54
"Sesame Street" Muppet : ERNIE
58
Kind of shark : LOAN
59
An Evangelist : LUKE
60
River into the North Sea : YSER
61
Pop piano classic : NOLA
62
John or Ellen of stage fame : DREW
63
Golf starting points : TEES
65
"___ and Sympathy," Anderson play : TEA

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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