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

New York Times, Thursday, August 4, 1988

24-Across : Drab color: Ger.

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
James E. Hinish Jr. has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
James E. Hinish, Jr. is an alias for James E. Hinish Jr..
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,149
Across
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Pt. of speech : ADV
4
Conductor Dorati : ANTAL
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Arm, in Armentières : BRAS
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Condemn : DOOM
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Greenstreet's screen pal : LORRE
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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
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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
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Org. of 26 Down : BSO
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Vice ___ : VERSA
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Underworld kingpin : CZAR
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Strauss's "The Blue ___" : DANUBE
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Like Joe Miller jokes : OLD
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Spanish name for an Iberian river : TAJO
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Edwin Booth's milieu : STAGE
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In ___ way (seriously ill) : ABAD
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Honolulu beach : EWA
41
Orchestrated : SCORED
42
Dream, in Dijon : REVE
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Saint-Saëns "La ___ Macabre" : DANSE
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Composer Rorem : NED
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Valuable violin : STRAD
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Gabor and Le Gallienne : EVAS
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Locked : SHUT
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Cherished : ADORED
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Jazz conductor-musician Oscar ___ : PETERSON
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New York's Indian-born conductor : ZUBINMEHTA
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State where Szell conducted : OHIO
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Relative of the buffalo : ANOA
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Friendship : AMITY
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Cellar contents : SALT
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English conductor Boyd ___ : NEEL
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City near Warren, Ohio : NILES
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Tintern Abbey's river : WYE
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G. Eliot's "___ Bede" : ADAM
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Lady of Lisbon : DONA
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Berlin's conductor Herbert ___ : VONKARAJAN
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Seaweeds : ALGAE
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Negative votes : NOES
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Pony : TROT
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Timetable abbr. : ARR
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Post-Impressionist painter : LEGER
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Coarse shoe : BROGUE
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Part : ROLE
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Memo abbr. : ATTN
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Silk, in Lyon : SOIE
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Man at the podium : MAESTRO
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Debonair : SUAVE
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Kind of housing loan: Abbr. : FHA
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Overcharged : GOUGED
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Trod the boards : ACTED
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Manchurian-born conductor Seiji ___ : OZAWA
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Conductors' implements : BATONS
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Kind of drum : SNARE
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Atlanta's conductor : ROBERTSHAW
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Conductor Rostropovich's nickname : SLAVA
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Subjoined : ADDED
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Mil. decoration : DSC
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Foundation : BED
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Toscanini and others : ARTUROS
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"___ Days in May" : SEVEN
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Describing certain modern music : SERIAL
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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
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Sahara feature : DUNE
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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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