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Jim Page
Jim Page

LITERALLY SPEAKING

New York Times, Sunday, March 29, 1981

28-Down : Honeybee's intake

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 82, Avg Word Len: 5.06, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 505 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 114, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 15, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13 Grid has duplicate clues.
Jim Page has 84 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 70 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

In 57-Down clue, "Feeling" should be "Feelings"; left as in the original.

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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,464
Across
1
Hit the books : PORE
5
Dalai ___ : LAMA
9
Taiwan Strait seaport : AMOY
13
Greek letters : PSIS
17
Blockheads, in Brest : ANES
18
___-on-Hudson, N.Y. : CROTON
20
Jay or Kay : NAME
21
Pinsetter's place : LANE
22
24
Cassini : OLEG
25
Came down : ALIT
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Kind of spring : MINERAL
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30
Contralto Nikolaidi : ELENA
31
Idle : OTIOSE
34
Cozy retreat : NEST
35
Gram weight : MOL
36
Eng. author : RLS
37
Quick-fry : SAUTE
38
"Betty ___" : COED
40
In Dutch it's Rijn : RHINE
42
Decrees : IRADES
44
Bd. members : TRS
45
"Some ___ meat ... ": Burns : HAE
46
Took 40 winks : RESTED
49
Mmes., in Cádiz : SRAS
51
Type of type : ITALIC
55
Bar, legally : ESTOP
56
61
Anne or Jeanne: Abbr. : STE
62
Regions : AREAS
63
Grassland : LEA
64
All knotted up : EVEN
65
El Cordobés bullring foe : TORO
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70
Sonoran Indians : SERI
71
Indigo : ANIL
72
Wine: Comb. form : ENO
73
Island near New Guinea : ROOKE
74
Animal pouch : SAC
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Play about Perón : EVITA
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Made the grade : PASSED
82
Essence : GIST
83
Barrymore or Hampton : LIONEL
84
Kin of rds. and sts. : AVS
85
"___ Clown" : BEA
86
Endurance-race site : LEMANS
89
Vermont ski resort : STOWE
92
___ War: 1899-1902 : BOER
93
Uncanny : EERIE
94
Forming a corner: Abbr. : ANG
97
Ear: Comb. form : AUR
98
Marsh growth : REED
100
Dairy-company devices : DATERS
102
Galileo taught here : PADUA
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Albert Speer book : SPANDAU
109
Author Sheehy : GAIL
110
Carty of baseball : RICO
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Prefix for blast or carp : ENDO
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Agenda entry : ITEM
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Sheathe a blade : ENCASE
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___ homo : ECCE
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Benchley's "The ___" : DEEP
119
Existence : ESSE
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Rim hangings : NETS
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Ending with pun or fun : STER
Down
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Golf great : PALMER
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House Speaker Tip : ONEILL
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City WSW of Paris : RENNES
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Ruhr steel center : ESSEN
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Chaney : LON
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Panay people : ATI
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Mailer subject : MONROE
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Breed of cattle : ANGUS
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Shortly : ANON
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Stiff, silk net : MALINES
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Foretold : OMENED
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Safecrackers : YEGGS
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Land developer's map : PLAT
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Deli order : SALAMI
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" ... armies clad ___": Milton : INIRON
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Sink like a soufflé : SETTLE
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V.I.P. at tax time : CPA
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Gunnery officer's command : RELOAD
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Early English money : ORA
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Honeybee's intake : NECTAR
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Layers : STRATA
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Calendar abbr. : TUE
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"___ only a paper moon ... " : ITS
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Like McCullers's café : SAD
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About : ORSO
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Equine ailment : HEAVES
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Dancer Michio ___ : ITO
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Ribbed fabric : REP
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King of Tyre : HIRAM
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Replace, as postage : RESTAMP
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Baltic Sea republic : ESTONIA
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Compounds including vitamin D : STERIDS
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R.b.i. or e.r.a. : STAT
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Sarasota and Palm Springs : RESORTS
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"And she ___ our alley": Carey : LIVESIN
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Go over verbally : ITERATE
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Sneering : CYNICAL
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Recent: Comb. form : CAENO
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___ Good Feeling : ERAOF
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Saul's grandfather : NER
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Chip : FLAKE
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To freeze: Fr. : GELER
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Maxim, redundantly : OLDSAW
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Pays close attention : HEEDS
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Trilby or tootsy : FOOT
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Mail convenience: Abbr. : POB
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Jimmies : LEVERS
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Pointed arch : OGEE
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"Other Skies" poet : CIARDI
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Chem. suffix : EIN
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Flemish painter: 16th century : VOS
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New Guinea locale : LAE
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Women's vests : BODICES
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He bestrode Traveller : LEE
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Go astray : ERR
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F.D.R.'s secretary et al. : MISSYS
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Drooped : SAGGED
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Gridiron's Green Wave : TULANE
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Cheap-jewelry alloy : OROIDE
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Is suited to : BEFITS
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Refrigerant or fuel : ETHANE
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Habituate : ADDICT
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Shade of difference : NUANCE
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British excise-tax collector : GAUGER
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Eagle's nest : EYRIE
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Pallid : ASHEN
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Roast or roaster : PAN
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Machu Picchu setting : ANDES
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Sterne's Dr. : SLOP
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Seward Peninsula city : NOME
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___ Dee (Carolina river) : PEE
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Pt. of the whole : PCT
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Ballerina's ___ seul : PAS

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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