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Jim Page
Jim Page

New York Times, Saturday, July 6, 1991

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 15, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 23.3
Jim Page has 84 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 70 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,215
Across
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Recipe verb : ADD
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Rumbullion : RIOT
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Willingham's "End ___" : ASAMAN
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Hoo preceder : BOO
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Erstwhile : ONCE
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Intertwine : ENLACE
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Wrymouth's cousin : EEL
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Star with a tail : ASTA
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Kumquat or shaddock : CITRUS
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Account by a sympathy seeker : SOBSTORY
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Barkley et al. : VEEPS
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Interest measurement : RATE
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Zaire's Mobutu ___ Seko : SESE
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Restaurateur Toots ___ : SHOR
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Like a von Webern composition : ATONAL
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Encore : BIS
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Jean Kerr's "Lunch ___" : HOUR
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Put on : DON
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Beer's "The Mauve ___" : DECADE
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Rip out the stitching : UNSEW
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Puckerel : IMP
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Crew member : ROWER
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Ball standouts : BELLES
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Synagogue reader's pointer : YAD
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Smelting residue : SLAG
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Unit attachment : ARY
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Pass : ELAPSE
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Swinburne, e.g. : ISLE
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Hawaiian slope or cliff : PALI
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Rodomontade : RANT
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Mulching material : STRAW
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Like a wailing whale? : BLUBBERY
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"___ River," 1953 song about Yalta? : CRIMEA
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Body, in Bonn : LEIB
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Lug of a jug : EAR
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More cozy : HOMIER
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TV backdrop : OLEO
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Part of R.E.O. : ELI
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Saturates : STEEPS
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Painter Benjamin ___: 1738-1820 : WEST
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Mack or Lewis : TED
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Featherweight Attell : ABE
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"He who can, ___": G.B.S. : DOES
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In a sorrowful way : DOLOROUSLY
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Pan : ROAST
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Preferably : INSTEAD
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Quattuor doubled : OCTO
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A 1958 song : TEARSONMYPILLOW
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N.R.C. preceder : AEC
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Whiny one : SNIVELER
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Der ___ (Adenauer) : ALTE
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Flat lunar area : MARE
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"___ of hot wine ... ": Shak. : ACUP
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Headland : NESS
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Kind of roll : BARREL
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Longing : YEN
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___ sack : SAD
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A Brooklyn Dodger: 1948-55 : SHUBA
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Sharp-eyed one? : HONER
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Thee, in Tours : TOI
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"The ___ Journal" (satiric annual, once) : BAWLSTREET
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Unflawed : IDEAL
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Suit fabric : SERGE
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Trig function : COSINE
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"___, ye woodmen, wail": Munday-Chettle : WEEPWEEP
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___ de Calais : PAS
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Moroccan port : SLA
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Bowlers : DERBIES
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Priest's vestment : ALB
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Monastery V.I.P. : ABBOT
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Fish gps. : SCHS
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Jogger's gait : TROT
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Hoar frost : RIME
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G. Sand, to Chopin : AMIE
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Ubangi feeder : UELE
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Shade of blue : YALE
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Horace's "___ Poetica" : ARS
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Disencumber : RID

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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