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Christopher Page
Christopher Page

New York Times, Friday, June 10, 1988

1-Down : Heavenly body

Author:
Christopher Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 248 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has supersymmetry.
Christopher Page has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 8 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,094
Across
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Native-born Israelis : SABRAS
7
Fielding novel: 1751 : AMELIA
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Hot under the collar : ENRAGED
15
Shea shape : DIAMOND
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Better briefed : READIER
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Concentrated : INTENSE
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Familiar shipping name : ARI
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East, West and South, in N.J. : ORANGES
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Certain M.D.'s : GPS
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Tests the water, politically : POLLS
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Peril at sea : FOG
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Out of condition : UNFIT
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Hawaiian port : HILO
28
Staph's relative : STREP
30
What olden days were of : YORE
31
Red entries : DEBITS
33
Adulate : REVERE
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Cassowary's cousin : EMU
36
Lay or ditty : AIR
37
On a bias : ASLANT
40
Ellis Islanders, once : ALIENS
43
Con : ANTI
44
Papyrus's family : SEDGE
46
Shorten sail : REEF
48
Power : STEAM
50
Arena shout : RAH
51
Filmdom's George of Great Neck : SEGAL
52
Toy spinner : TOP
53
Bar accessory : ICEPAIL
56
Ring master, once : ALI
57
Stores grain : ENSILES
59
Szczecin, to Germans : STETTIN
61
Uruguay's ___ Plata : RIODELA
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Plant's principal feeder : TAPROOT
63
Least lunatic : SANEST
64
Backs of barques : STERNS
Down
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Heavenly body : SERAPH
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Barometer type : ANEROID
3
Raised writing : BRAILLE
4
Radiation unit : RAD
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Currency traders' concerns : AGIOS
6
Sucker's beginning : SEER
7
Elder, in Arles : AINE
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Taiwan Strait island : MATSU
9
Angus's uncle : EME
10
Ache after : LONGFOR
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Motivate : INSPIRE
12
"___ Fideles" : ADESTE
14
Prepares a paper : DRAFTS
15
Word with clam or gold : DIGGER
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Neighbor of Fin. : NOR
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A bellflower : LOBELIA
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First president of Tanzania : NYERERE
28
Dazes : STUNS
29
U.S. painter Rembrandt : PEALE
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"___ stranger in Paradise" : IMA
34
Cicero's natural, in craps : VII
37
Biographer Fraser : ANTONIA
38
Tramples : STEPSON
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Sainted nun of Spain : TERESA
40
Awfully awed : AGHAST
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Nullifier : NEGATOR
42
Pacific seal : SEALION
43
Michaelmas daisies : ASTERS
45
Dunk lightly : DAP
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Lighter needs : FLINTS
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"And ___ to go before I sleep": Frost : MILES
51
Nodded off : SLEPT
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Scot, for example : CELT
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Take ___ it comes : ITAS
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Cockney's pelt : IDE
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Due follower : TRE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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