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

New York Times, Friday, December 2, 1988

6-Down : Fast time

Author:
James E. Hinish, Jr.
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F J V W Z }, Scrabble score: 298 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
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. 14,269
Across
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Kingdom : REALM
6
Tragic monarch : LEAR
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Short swim : DIP
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Cold meat-juice jelly : ASPIC
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Actress Raines : ELLA
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"Ain't She Sweet?" composer : AGER
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Author chained to ape : STEPHENKINGKONG
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Endora's spell : HEX
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Gormandizes : EATS
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Keyboard combinations : CHORDS
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Hosp. group : RNS
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Easily composed, in typesetting : PHAT
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Mystery writer wedded to royalty : ELLERYQUEENANNE
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Prepared : READY
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Extreme : ULTRA
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U.S.A., Gallic style : EUA
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Author Ehrenburg : ILYA
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Cruise-ship companies : LINES
38
Bar bills : TABS
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Fr. company : CIE
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Turkestani Moslem : SALAR
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Bandleader Shaw : ARTIE
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Broadway producer linked to Falstaff's friend : HAROLDPRINCEHAL
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Ottoman governors of yore : BEYS
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King topper : ACE
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Tristan's love : ISOLDE
50
Cherbourg cherub : ANGE
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Presidential nickname : ABE
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Tobacco heiress linked to Dodger immortal : DORISDUKESNIDER
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Sleep like ___ : ALOG
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Arab potentate : EMIR
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Former rulers : TSARS
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Watch : EYE
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Verne's skipper : NEMO
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"Gypsy" composer : STYNE
Down
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Mapcap : RASH
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Alberto Azzo II, e.g. : ESTE
3
Culmination : APEX
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Back talk : LIP
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Fort in Baltimore's harbor : MCHENRY
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Fast time : LENT
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Wapitis : ELKS
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Caliph or pugilist : ALI
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Cattlemen : RANCHERS
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___ Territory: 1861-89 : DAKOTA
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Operatic prince : IGOR
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Hang fire : PEND
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Some coll. linemen : RGS
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Captain of comics : EASY
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Land once headed by Nkrumah : GHANA
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Hester Prynne's stigma : REDA
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"The Great" czar : PETERI
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Composer-conductor Korngold : ERICH
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George Sand heroine : LELIA
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Hen : LAYER
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Dickensian dwarf and wife : QUILPS
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Of a forearm bone : ULNAR
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Below, to Byron : NEATH
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Knitted scarf : NUBIA
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Item for Inness : EASEL
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Earl of Avon's wife : LADYEDEN
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Kingwood, e.g. : TREE
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Luges : SLEDS
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Certain stresses : ACCENTS
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Noblesse ___ : OBLIGE
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Henpecks : NAGS
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G. & S. princess : IDA
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Flatfish : SOLE
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"___ Plata" (Mont.'s motto) : OROY
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Tamiroff of films : AKIM
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Fiddling emperor : NERO
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"An apple ___ ... " : ADAY
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A European capital : BERN
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Highlands dialect : ERSE
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Japanese apricot : UME
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Royal finish : IST

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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