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Jim Page
Jim Page

New York Times, Friday, February 7, 1986

9-Down : China, poetically

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 56, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Jim Page has 84 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 70 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,240
Across
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Bovary : EMMA
5
Cleo's stinger : ASP
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160 sq. rd. units : ACS
11
Flaccid : LIMP
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November winners : INS
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A military engineer : SAPPER
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Radar-screen spot : BLIP
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Sinclair Lewis book : MAINSTREET
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Counselor-at-law, e.g. : ADVISER
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Natural-gas components : ETHANES
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Earhart : AMELIA
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Writer Rand : AYN
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Sierra ___ : LEONE
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Dogie, for one : STRAY
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Sun ___-sen : YAT
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Grab the receiver : ANSWER
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Meas. of brain activity : EEG
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Fingerprint, e.g. : CLUE
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Hari : MATA
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Swarm : HORDE
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Swiss river : AARE
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___-deucy : ACEY
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___ of Good Feeling : ERA
44
Join securely once more : REKNIT
46
Narrative: Abbr. : STO
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Bad ___ (duplicity) : FAITH
49
Sail part : LEECH
50
___ diem : PER
52
Playground device : SEESAW
54
House painters : COATERS
57
"Gil Blas" author and family : LESAGES
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"Two ___," 1951 revue : ONTHEAISLE
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Subsist : LIVE
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Bidding : BEHEST
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Kind of talk or rally : PEP
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"Fish Magic" painter : KLEE
67
Beat for a P.O. man : RTE
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Followers of kues : ARS
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Corsican's neighbor : SARD
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Exile spot : ELBA
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Temperate : MILD
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Cato's 2,004 : MMIV
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Rome-to-Brindisi road : APPIANWAY
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Actress Anouk : AIMEE
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Traffic tie-ups : SNARLS
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Greek letter : PSI
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Kind of prof. : ASST
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China, poetically : CATHAY
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Atomizer output : SPRAY
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Beatles hit : PENNYLANE
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Shoe width : EEE
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Some are civil: Abbr. : RTS
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Came closer : NEARED
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Diving duck : SMEE
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Battologize : ITERATE
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Actor Lorenzo : LAMAS
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Lawmaker's verb : ENACT
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Medical practitioner : OSTEOPATH
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Pressure, perhaps : AGER
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___ Goldfinger (007 foe) : AURIC
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Effective means of enforcement : TEETH
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Mother of Zeus : RHEA
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Strutting dances : CAKEWALKS
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Indian dance : ORISSI
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Greek mil. group in W.W. II : ELAS
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Least hampered : FREEST
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"We Bombed in New Haven" author : HELLER
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Laughing-gas kin : ETHER
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Oozes : SEEPS
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Pipe material : COB
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___-liner (quip) : ONE
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Scold : RATE
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___ monster : GILA
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At all : EVER
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C. Norris book : SEED
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Baden-Baden, e.g. : SPA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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