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Jim Page
Jim Page

New York Times, Thursday, September 19, 1974

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.76, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 12.0
Jim Page has 84 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 70 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,168
Across
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Stirs : ADOS
5
Marquand's sleuth : MOTO
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Clean the deck : SWAB
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Large cat : PUMA
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Kind of lung or horse : IRON
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Skyline sight : SPIRE
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Do a job at the U. N. : TRANSLATE
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___-tonk : HONKY
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Expecting the worst : ONTENTERHOOKS
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Suit to ___ : ATEE
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Plant beard : AWN
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Linemen: Abbr. : RGS
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U. S. draft org. : SSS
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Vestment : ALB
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Relative of eterne : EER
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Skill, in Italy : ARTE
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Disparage : BELITTLE
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Prominent Ukrainian : LEONIDIBREZHNEV
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Fuel source : PEATMOSS
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Place for a trough : EAVE
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Elevations: Abbr. : HTS
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Wheat or corn ___ : PIT
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Merle Miller subject: Abbr. : HST
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Salt, in Paris : SEL
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Storage place : BIN
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Full of miseries : ACHY
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Like J.F.K. and Khrushchev in 1962 : ATLOGGERHEADS
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Louisiana sight : BAYOU
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Kind of feature : REDEEMING
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Peter et al. : ARNOS
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Ottoman standard : ALEM
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Silkworm : ERIA
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Kind of organ : REED
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Breckinridge : MYRA
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Aerialists' safeguards : NETS
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Inclined : APT
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Spanish peso : DURO
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Arabian area : OMAN
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"Nobody shoots at ___ ... " (Smith) : SANTA
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A. A. et al. : MILNES
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Spouts forth : ORATES
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Lug : TOTE
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Distinctive person : ONER
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Golf club : SPOON
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One of forty : WINK
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Refuges : ARKS
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Tunisian ruler : BEY
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Movies, theater, etc. : SHOWBIZ
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Tennis divisions : SETS
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Prussian city : HALLE
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Edwards or Nader : RALPH
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Play the hostess : GREET
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Promenades : STOAS
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Chalice cover : AER
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Heating vessels : ETNAS
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French student : ELEVE
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Make merry : REVEL
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Doorway: Abbr. : ENT
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Gun pellets : BBS
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Article : THE
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Profane : IMPIOUS
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Activist's concern : DOING
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One involved: Suffix : IST
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More callous : HARDER
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Outllne : SCHEMA
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Biblical pronoun : THEE
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Worm or bath : BLOOD
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Mandarin's residence : YAMEN
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Swiss river : AARE
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River to the North Sea : TYNE
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Metric weight : GRAM
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Slippery : EELY
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Kind of straits : DIRE
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Excited state : SNIT
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Ballet-practice aid : BAR
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Fuel : GAS

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2 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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