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Jim Page
Jim Page

New York Times, Friday, July 26, 1991

54-Across : Drawing closer

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 16, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
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. 15,235
Across
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Actor Tamblyn : RUSS
5
Flick : PIC
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Meet feature : RACE
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Another forte of 1 Across : DANCE
13
Baseball's Blue Moon : ODOM
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Informed about : UPON
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Group character : ETHOS
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Actress Copley : TERI
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Barreled along : SPED
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"The Song of the ___," Lanier poem : CHATTAHOOCHEE
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Slugger Jose ___ : CANSECO
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Burns's refusal : NAE
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Say further : ADD
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Ex-Giant lineman : ARD
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F.S.U. site : TALLAHASSEE
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Role for Stack or Costner : NESS
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Kiki ___, rock star : DEE
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Shifts : VEERS
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Fla. city for spooners? : KISSIMMEE
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Fundamental : BASIC
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Composer Ain : NOA
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Zaire's Mobutu ___ Seko : SESE
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Mont.'s state flowers : BITTERROOTS
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Recpt. : VOU
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Wee, in Ayr : SMA
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Number of Disney Dalmatians : IOI
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Drawing closer : NEARING
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Cerfdom in S.C.? : BENNETTSVILLE
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Ill humor : BILE
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"___ do abhor thee ... ": Shak. : AGEI
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Actress Burstyn : ELLEN
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River to the Baltic : ODER
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___ packing (dismiss) : SEND
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Poet Lizette Woodworth ___ : REESE
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Ind. city : GARY
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Former Dodger pitcher : ROE
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Latvia et al. : SSRS
Down
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Pika : RATHARE
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Lets go, in a melodrama : UNHANDS
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Boswell et al. : SCOTS
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Sonnet part : SESTET
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Road hazards : POTHOLES
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Thought: Comb. form : IDEO
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Long cigar : CORONA
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Trick : RUSE
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Soothe : APPEASE
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Producer-director Fred ___ : COE
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Outcome : END
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India's ___ Plateau : DECCAN
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Old Testament book : MICAH
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U.S.M.A. et al. : ACADS
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Put the shot : HEAVE
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"___ Ring des Nibelungen" : DER
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___ Moines : DES
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Finnish poet Eino ___ : LEINO
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Views : SEES
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Comic sketch : SKIT
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Freeze over, as a port : ICEIN
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Certain ebb and flow : MOONTIDE
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Buck and hind : MATES
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Tot's ammo : BBS
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Objective : AIM
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Ex-quarterback Ken ___ : STABLER
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More wicked : EVILLER
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Lacking a male heir : SONLESS
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Ore. city : EUGENE
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Hungarian ballet master and family : RONAS
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Hirsch role in TV's "Taxi" : RIEGER
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Piggy-bank owners : SAVERS
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Vexes : RILES
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Weird : EERY
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"... ___'clock scholar" : TENO
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Cranberry ___ : BOG
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Mount ___, in Greece : IDA

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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