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James E. Hinish Jr.
James E. Hinish Jr.

New York Times, Thursday, August 4, 1988

Author:
James E. Hinish Jr.
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 12, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 23.1
James E. Hinish Jr. has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,149
Across
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Pt. of speech : ADV
4
Conductor Dorati : ANTAL
9
Arm, in Armentières : BRAS
13
Condemn : DOOM
15
Greenstreet's screen pal : LORRE
16
Sunday section, for short : ROTO
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"___ Karenina" : ANNA
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Chicago's Rumanian-born conductor : GEORGSOLTI
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Secure : MAKEFAST
22
Philadelphia's Ormandy : EUGENE
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Court notable : ASHE
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Drab color: Ger. : GRAU
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Main artery : AORTA
27
Org. of 26 Down : BSO
29
Vice ___ : VERSA
33
Underworld kingpin : CZAR
34
Strauss's "The Blue ___" : DANUBE
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Like Joe Miller jokes : OLD
37
Spanish name for an Iberian river : TAJO
38
Edwin Booth's milieu : STAGE
39
In ___ way (seriously ill) : ABAD
40
Honolulu beach : EWA
41
Orchestrated : SCORED
42
Dream, in Dijon : REVE
43
Saint-Saëns "La ___ Macabre" : DANSE
45
Composer Rorem : NED
46
Valuable violin : STRAD
47
Gabor and Le Gallienne : EVAS
49
Locked : SHUT
50
Cherished : ADORED
53
Jazz conductor-musician Oscar ___ : PETERSON
57
New York's Indian-born conductor : ZUBINMEHTA
59
State where Szell conducted : OHIO
60
Relative of the buffalo : ANOA
61
Friendship : AMITY
62
Cellar contents : SALT
63
English conductor Boyd ___ : NEEL
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City near Warren, Ohio : NILES
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Tintern Abbey's river : WYE
Down
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G. Eliot's "___ Bede" : ADAM
2
Lady of Lisbon : DONA
3
Berlin's conductor Herbert ___ : VONKARAJAN
4
Seaweeds : ALGAE
5
Negative votes : NOES
6
Pony : TROT
7
Timetable abbr. : ARR
8
Post-Impressionist painter : LEGER
9
Coarse shoe : BROGUE
10
Part : ROLE
11
Memo abbr. : ATTN
12
Silk, in Lyon : SOIE
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Man at the podium : MAESTRO
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Debonair : SUAVE
21
Kind of housing loan: Abbr. : FHA
24
Overcharged : GOUGED
25
Trod the boards : ACTED
26
Manchurian-born conductor Seiji ___ : OZAWA
27
Conductors' implements : BATONS
28
Kind of drum : SNARE
30
Atlanta's conductor : ROBERTSHAW
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Conductor Rostropovich's nickname : SLAVA
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Subjoined : ADDED
34
Mil. decoration : DSC
35
Foundation : BED
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Toscanini and others : ARTUROS
41
"___ Days in May" : SEVEN
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Describing certain modern music : SERIAL
46
Haggard title : SHE
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Madison Ave. type : ADMAN
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Corset appurtenances : STAYS
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Moslem call to prayer : AZAN
51
Sahara feature : DUNE
52
Orchestra member : OBOE
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Conductor Spitalny of yesteryear : PHIL
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Wagon or kitchen ending : ETTE
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Unctuous : OILY
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Score feature : NOTE
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___ Koussi, peak in Chad : EMI

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

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