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Jim Page
Jim Page

New York Times, Friday, April 7, 1978

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { B J X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 59, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 15, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Grid flow: 29.3
Jim Page has 84 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 70 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,464
Across
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Black Sea port : ODESSA
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"O Sole ___" : MIO
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Golf ball position : LIE
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Equip anew, as a machine shop : RETOOL
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Like some youths : MISSPENT
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Perform, in charades : ACTOUT
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Dime, to a dollar : ONETENTH
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Heel-and-___ (jogger's stride) : TOE
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Leningrad's Winter ___ : PALACE
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Thirst quenchers : ADES
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Journalist Pyle: 1900–45 : ERNIE
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Wind dir. : ENE
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"___ right with the world" : ALLS
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Year of Guy Fawkes's Gunpowder Plot : MDCV
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Argosies : FLEETS
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Parseghian : ARA
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Wrangle : HASSLE
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River to the Rhine : AAR
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Kennan and Harriman : KREMLINOLOGISTS
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Fort near Monterey : ORD
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Trophy part : ANTLER
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Grant's adversary : LEE
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Roll garnish : SESAME
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Dumbo feature : EARS
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Cicero's drink : AQUA
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Rainbow or Third: Abbr. : DIV
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Cowboy flick : OATER
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In ___ (bogged down) : ARUT
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U.S.S.R. river : DONETS
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United : ONE
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German state : SAARLAND
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Gets together with other old grads : REUNES
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"___ differ": Southey : AGREEDTO
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Garb : ATTIRE
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Becky Crawley, ___ Sharp : NEE
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Thickwit : ASS
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"Mission to ___," 1943 film : MOSCOW
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Hold forth, à la Douglas : ORATE
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Window dressing : DECOR
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Yanks' '44 home-run champ : ETTEN
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___ Canals : SOO
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___-up, as a hot rod : SOUPED
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Deep-powder ski area : ALTA
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Thanksgiving Day pie : MINCE
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"Is this a dagger which ___ ... " : ISEE
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Bone: Comb. form : OST
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Act of 1941, giving aid to Allies : LENDLEASE
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Without a will : INTESTATE
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Old English letters : ETHS
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Pun reaction : MOAN
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Washington posed for him : PEALE
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Composer-pianist Oscar: 1906–72 : LEVANT
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Moslem prayer leader : IMAM
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"Shake ___!" : ALEG
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Backbone : CHINE
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Linnaeus's fauna companion : FLORA
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Last year's jrs. : SRS
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State of indebtedness : ARREARAGE
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Lenin Mausoleum site : REDSQUARE
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Impresario Hurok: 1888–1974 : SOL
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Place for a chevron : SLEEVE
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Delivers a haymaker : KOS
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Dalai ___ : LAMA
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Fräulein's name : ILSA
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Other, in Paris : AUTRE
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___ the occasion (met a challenge) : ROSETO
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"Stop!," "Hands off!," etc. : DONTS
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Prefix with China : INDO
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Summer drink mix : TONIC
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January, in Santiago : ENERO
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Stitch in time : RESEW
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"Pure ___ angel ... " : ASAN
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Honorees in the sixth month : DADS
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Soho streetcar : TRAM
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Grassy field : LEA
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Ma Bell et al.: Abbr. : UTS

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