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Christopher Page
Christopher Page

New York Times, Thursday, March 28, 1991

31-Down : Sounds of hesitation

Author:
Christopher Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 252 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has supersymmetry.
Christopher Page has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 8 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,115
Across
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Put back on the market : RESOLD
7
Neb. river : PLATTE
13
More maudlin : MUSHIER
14
Cow catchers : LARIATS
16
Whim : IMPULSE
17
Footstool : OTTOMAN
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Minor argument : SPAT
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Mrs. Bunker : EDITH
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Heroic tale : SAGA
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Turf : SOD
23
Capone weapon : GAT
24
Tirana money : LEK
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"Woe is me!" : ALAS
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Fur-bearing carnivore : GENET
29
Nothing more than : MERE
30
Comedian Jerry and family : LESTERS
32
Topples a king : DEPOSES
34
NOW aim : ERA
35
Realty unit : LOT
36
Romanian-born playwright : IONESCO
40
Of heat : CALORIC
44
Abandon : DROP
45
"King Olaf" composer : ELGAR
47
Opulent, in Oviedo : RICO
48
Freudian concerns : IDS
49
Morse-code word : DIT
50
Seaport in northeast It. : VEN
51
Clydesdale fodder : OATS
53
Comedian Ole ___ : OLSEN
55
Painter Georges ___ Tour : DELA
56
Name in a famed Supreme Court case : MIRANDA
58
New Brunswick's river : RARITAN
60
Ignored insultingly : SNUBBED
61
Noted : EMINENT
62
Viscous : SMEARY
63
Take into account : REGARD
Down
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"___ of the Bailey," TV mystery series : RUMPOLE
2
Swords, in Toledo : ESPADAS
3
Close : SHUT
4
Source of Abu Dhabi's wealth : OIL
5
___ majesté : LESE
6
Deepens a channel : DREDGES
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Schemed : PLOTTED
8
Slat : LATH
9
Frick content : ART
10
Uruguayan uncles : TIOS
11
Cantina fare : TAMALES
12
What-not : ETAGERE
13
Church book : MISSAL
15
Krait and fer-de-lance : SNAKES
20
Actor McKellen : IAN
26
Immerse : STEEP
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Elegance of form : GRACE
28
Of bodily tissue : TELAR
29
Drive : MOTOR
31
Sounds of hesitation : ERS
33
Vet on the hustings : POL
36
Characteristic styles : IDIOMS
37
Decrees : ORDAINS
38
Quack medicine : NOSTRUM
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___ of Threadneedle St. (Bank of England) : OLDLADY
40
Vital participant in wedding planning : CATERER
41
Shipyard worker : RIVETER
42
Reykjavik's nation : ICELAND
43
President of Harvard: 1933-53 : CONANT
46
U.S. soldiers : GIS
52
"¿Quién ___?" : SABE
53
___-Neisse Line : ODER
54
Montague, e.g. : NAME
55
Actress Merrill : DINA
57
Pistons' org. : NBA
59
Tackle : RIG

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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